Swift And Still Waters: Lifetime Recollections And Reflections (Only Signed Copy)

J. Frederick Talcott

Published by Printed by The Alexander Press, New York, 1943

First Edition (NAP). Once listed, this will be the Only copy for sale anywhere on the Internet. And, to boot, it is signed and inscribed by the author, J. Frederick Talcott. The inscription is on the first front end paper. Some of the handwriting is a bit difficult. You can see it in the second photograph. It begins 'To My old friend Mrs. William Stuart(?) Esquire and in memory of her ________________-- whom I greatly admired, J. Frederick Talcott, New York, Dec 1943.' Underneath that somebody penciled 'Died Feb. 7. 1944.' That would be when J. Frederick Talcott died. Mr. Talcott's father, James Talcott, was the founder of a very successful factoring business in New York City. Late in his life he brought in his eldest son, the author, J. Frederick, who went on to run the business. There are 26 pages of black-and-white photographs scattered throughout the book, many are full-page (with white margins), a few contain two separate photographs. You can see the covers in the photos. They show some of their age but are in decent condition. The label on the front looks very good. On the spine it has just tiny little losses at the edges. There is a small loss of cloth at the top edge of the spine. There is a speckling of color loss on the rear cover adjacent to the middle and bottom edges. It looks like one thread may have lifted up on the lower part of the rear side of the spine (fourth photo), but the spine is tightly sealed there. The six edges are in solid shape. Each of the four corners has a small spot of rub-through. The page edges are quite clean. The book is square and the spine is straight. The binding of the book is quite decent. I found three or four instances where there was a thin space between two facing pages. In each instance both pages were solidly bound. I did find one illustration where there is a detachment coming 75% of the way up from its bottom edge, a totally clean detachment, but it sits in place because it's top 25% is still attached. I didn't find any other such issue with any of the other illustrations or with any of the text pages. The covers are solidly bound. The front one has a little bit of give if you pull at it from the side, but there are no cracks or spaces between either cover and any of the pages. One strong point with this book is the cleanliness of the pages. They look really nice. Curiously, each page has two columns. I can't remember seeing that in a book, at least not for a long time. The pages are in really nice shape as well. I'm not seeing any conspicuous creasing, no turned-down corner creases or placeholder creases. There's one tiny sliver of a crease off the top edge of some early pages, nothing much of anything. The photographs are all on glossy paper. As is typically the case there's a little bit of the amber foxing that you will see at the margins of glossy pages, but here it's quite light in most of the cases, looking more like toning. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And beside the signed inscription (and the penciled reference to the author's passing) there is no writing to be found anywhere in the book. Seller Inventory # 004037

Bibliographic Details

Title: Swift And Still Waters: Lifetime ...
Publisher: Printed by The Alexander Press, New York
Publication Date: 1943
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good Minus
Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition