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Publishers' Binding Thursday

Today we visit a volume that looked familiar to me right when I first saw it. This is Her Father's Daughter by Hoosier writer, photographer, and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924), published in 1921 by Doubleday, Page & Company. The book's front matter is highly illustrated, in a way very similar to that of another Gene Stratton-Porter book in our collection that I have posted about before in this series—The Keeper of the Bees. That book was decorated by American artist and mystery novel author Lee Thayer (1874-1973), who I suspect may have also done the decoration in this volume, though I haven't been able to confirm that suspicion.

The cover is simple but pretty, with the title in a lovely serif font with a particularly swoopy R and yellow flowers. The frontispiece is by English painter and illustrator Dudley Gloyne Summers (1892-1975). The decorative endpapers and other front matter depict various nature scenes.

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Counterfeit. Lee Thayer. New York: Sears Publishing Co, (1933). First edition. Original dust jacket by Lee Thayer. 

"Three men are dining together in a brilliant New York restaurant. Red headed Peter Clancy, private investigator, is host. Raymond Trant, of the Secret Service, and Captain of Detectives Kerrigan are his carefree guests. As a matter of personal interest Trant tells them of a wonderful counterfeit one hundred dollar bill that he is deeply concerned in tracking to its lair."

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1938 Dodd Mead hardcover

“First Edition. Lee Thayer dustjacket art. 'Peter Clancy has a new assignment. Robbery, intrigue and sudden death have always been every day occurrences in his exciting life; but, curiously enough, the Seaton case is his first experience with that most detestable of all crimes - kidnapping'.”

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Publishers’ Binding Thursday

This week’s publishers’ binding continues with the summer theme we’ve had this week. It is The Keeper of the Bees by Indiana author, photographer, and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter (1863-1924). The Keeper of the Bees was published in 1925 by The McCall Company, publishers of McCall’s Magazine (which Stratton-Porter also wrote for) and printed at The Country Life Press in Garden City, N.Y.

The book features some lovely floral decoration printed on the initial pages of the book, as well as on the endpapers. The decorations are by Lee Thayer (1874-1973), an artist and author of mystery novels. The illustrations of the text are by artist Gordon Grant (1875-1962). The book from front to back is just lovely!

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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

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Most people prefer a problem they can't fix to a solution they don't like

“Most people prefer a problem they can’t fix to a solution they don’t like” Lee Thayer This sentence is mad…. but there is a certain truth to it. Lee Thayer is the author of several books on the practice of Leadership. He was a big proponent of working to integrate thinking, being and doing into a more complete mode of leading people and organisations. Lee was a mentor and inspiration for many…

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Halloween with Lee Thayer

Happy Halloween from the American Trade Bindings Collection at UNCG! After a very busy summer, we’re back with an October pick for you to ...

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The Keeper of the Bees. Gene Stratton-Porter. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1925. First edition. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Decorations by Lee Thayer.

“Jamie reflected that if he purposely went down to the crags of the Pacific and threw himself to the sharks, when he came before God and his father and mother, he could carry no smiling secret on his face. He would not have kept the faith.”

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The Wrath to Come. E. Phillips Oppenheim. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1924. First edition. Original dust jacket by Lee Thayer. 

“The Pact of Nations is an accomplished fact, as is America's refusal to join. The motive of the plot is a conspiracy between Germany, Japan and Russia to keep America out of the Pact and then to make an excuse for attacking her, knowing that those nations who are in the Pact cannot come to her rescue.” -- The Spectator, 17 July 1925