11. Bar Nothing Ranch

Title: Bar Nothing Ranch
Author: Rosemary Taylor
Year Published:1947
Year Printed: 1947

Date Acquired: February 19, 2015
Where Purchased: The Book Stop, Tucson, AZ
Price Paid: $10

Read Status: Read (February 22, 2015)

Notes/Thoughts

• I wasn't planning to add anything to my collection this Tucson trip, but I had just recently finished Ridin' the Rainbow and really wanted to find Chicken Every Sunday. I didn't find a copy of that, but they did have this Rosemary Taylor novel, which I bought without even looking at the date because I had wandered in just as they were about to close early. Also, I loved Ridin' the Rainbow so much I wanted to read her other books even if I had to later go back and find an actual 1940s edition for my collection. However, I don't have to and if I ever manage to get down to having no 1940s books in my to read pile, I know Chicken Every Sunday will be the book that breaks my trend of buying the books for the collection in person from independent used bookstores.

D. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary Fifth Edition

Title: Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Fifth Edition: The Largest Abridgement of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition
Year Published: 1947
Year Printed: 1947

Date Acquired: 2014
Acquired From: Dad

Notes/Thoughts

• Originally my grandfather's
• My dad gave this to me shortly after I decided to collect 1940s edition books.

C. The Senior Confirmation Book

Title: The Senior Confirmation Book
Author: Jacob Tanner
Year Published: 1941
Year Printed: 1941

Date Acquired: 2008
Acquired From: Grandma

Notes/Thoughts

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B. Bet It's A Boy

Title: Bet It's A Boy
Author: Betty Bacon Blunt
Year Published: 1940
Year Printed: 1940

Date Acquired: 2008
Acquired From: Grandma

Notes/Thoughts

• This was given to my great-grandmother by her doctor in 1941, which would've been when she was pregnant with my grandma.
• This is an interesting book of illustrations. Spoiler: It ends with the woman having twin girls.

A. Holy Bible Illustrated

Title: Holy Bible
Year Published: 1611 (or at least that's when the King James Version originally dates to)
Year Printed: 1946 (or at least year given to my grandma)

Date Acquired: 2008
Acquired From: Grandma

Notes/Thoughts

• Says illustrated on spine, but kind of seems a misnomer when there only seems to be a few illustrations or at least in comparison to a much more illustrated 1930s book of Biblical stories I also have from her.
• Given to my grandma by her grandfather for Christmas in 1946

10. Rivers of America: The James - From Iron Gate to the Sea

Title: The James: From Iron Gate to the Sea
Author: Blair Niles
Year Published: 1945 (New Revised Edition, original 1939)
Year Printed: 1945

Date Acquired: February 7. 2015
Where Purchased: Capitol Hill Books, Washington, DC
Price Paid: $8.50

Read Status: Read (June 28, 2015)

Notes/Thoughts

• Of course, another Virginia book. I really did intend to try for a D.C. book, but I quickly spotted this book and did not look any further as this is part of the Rivers of America series that I already got The Tennessee River: Volume I from. Perhaps next visit I'll at least truly look for a D.C. book.
• Covers how "involuntary servitude" (p. 58) was not just African slaves including instances of them becoming free and owning slaves, but also English children kidnapped to be servants in the colonies. (mostly Chapter 4) 
• Good detailed description of the life cycle measured in tobacco. (p. 79-83) "Planters and laborers and slaves alike lived in the rhythm of tobacco." (p. 83)
• Colonial Abbreviations (p. 116-117)
• tobo = tobacco
• hhd = hogshead
• Hble Servt. = Humble Servant
• oppy = opportunity
• Dr = Dear
• George Washington "keeping copybooks in which he set down whatever appeared to him to be desirable knowledge." (p. 120)
• Student Debt in 1800s - "It is said that the merchants of Charlottesville exploited for their own ends this new freedom for youth. They offered limitless credit; whatever the young gentlemen wanted was theirs. In due time their fathers would receive bills." (p. 227)