Author: FIEDLER, George
Title: Mineral Point: A History
Description: Mineral Point, WI, The Mineral Point Historical Society, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 216pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Tight and bright text block marred only by two tape stains on front map flyleaf and rear map flyleaf, with corresponding quite faint marks to boards. Tight, handsome first edition of this chronicle of the historic southwest Wisconsin town. Handsomely signed and inscribed by the author in black ballpoint on half-title page: "For the desk library of Sister / Mary Nona O.P. with thanks for her / interest in the old lead and / zinc area in southwestern / Wisconsin, and with the best / wishes and the prayers of the author, / George Fiedler / Mineral Point / April 11, 1964." The aforesaid Sister Nona signs in pencil on front flyleaf. Mary Nona McGreal (1914-2013) was a noted Dominican educator and historian who authored a biography of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli (founder of the Dominicans of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin) and contributed much toward texts on the Dominicans (or O.P. = Order of Preachers); she served as president of Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin (1950-58) and in various positions for decades at Sinsinawa. The Dominicans and Sinsinawa appear a number of times in Fiedler's history. .
Keywords: Illinois & Midwest
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Title: Mineral Point: A History
Description: Mineral Point, WI, The Mineral Point Historical Society, 1962. Hardcover. 8vo. Teal blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 216pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Tight and bright text block marred only by two tape stains on front map flyleaf and rear map flyleaf, with corresponding quite faint marks to boards. Tight, handsome first edition of this chronicle of the historic southwest Wisconsin town. Handsomely signed and inscribed by the author in black ballpoint on half-title page: "For the desk library of Sister / Mary Nona O.P. with thanks for her / interest in the old lead and / zinc area in southwestern / Wisconsin, and with the best / wishes and the prayers of the author, / George Fiedler / Mineral Point / April 11, 1964." The aforesaid Sister Nona signs in pencil on front flyleaf. Mary Nona McGreal (1914-2013) was a noted Dominican educator and historian who authored a biography of Father Samuel Mazzuchelli (founder of the Dominicans of Sinsinawa, Wisconsin) and contributed much toward texts on the Dominicans (or O.P. = Order of Preachers); she served as president of Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin (1950-58) and in various positions for decades at Sinsinawa. The Dominicans and Sinsinawa appear a number of times in Fiedler's history. .
Keywords: Illinois & Midwest
Price: US$ 55.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51024
- Book number: 51024
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