Featured An extreamly rare book help?

Hi i been trying off and on for over a year and its always the same ... I can only find one other that has ever been cataloged and I have no idea what to do or who to go to the book is ...

Memorial edition consists of one hundred copies of which this is number 32

IN THE PATH OF THE ALPHABET AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF ANCIENT BEGINNINGS AND EVOLUTIONOF THE MODERN ALPHABET

BY FRANCES D. JERMAIN

FORT WAYNE, IND.
WILLIAM D. PAGE, PUBLISHER
1906

 

Hola, and welcome to the Forums, Clutter.

Plenty of book brainiacs will be looking in soon...

Photos, please?

EDIT/ADDED
Are these some of the references you have looked at?
https://www.bing.com/search?q=IN+TH...N+ALPHABET++BY+FRANCES+D.+JERMAIN&FORM=HDRSC1

 

I find two listed on Abebooks for not a lot of money.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an=frances+d.+jermain&sts=t

 

Darn my replying didnt work lol i think i got it now!!! Yay thanks for the welcome im happy to be here ... Im sooo stoked thank you sooo much im gonna take photos now. You the best

 

Welcome to the group.

 

Right on ... Thanks for looking into it thats not the one i have ...I am gonna add photos now

 

We love photos.

 

Awww yay !!! I wasnt sure if it was working because im doing it from my phone lol if you need more i can put my 1 glove i could find back on hahaa i must share a photo of it lol

 

The existence of print on demand copies ensures no one will buy the book for the contents if it costs any more. It is likely that buyers for this edition will be as rare as the book, making the value rather small.
Rarity does not always mean value. Demand for the item must noticeably exceed supply.
Not finding examples on the internet can often mean that no one thinks the odd copy they have is worth listing.

 

Here's an original u can get for $8. + $4. Shipping. Seems there are dozens of places where u can get a pod copy for $8. And up. http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...tby=17&tn=In the path of the alphabet&xpod=on

 

Found a listing of values at a ton of sites, both new and USED!!.......And WELCOME ClutterC!!!!!

http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl&st=sl&ref=bf_s2_a1_t1_1&qi=jOXeBby82ly2eXBTMwsizehdGlg_1467644413_1:105:152&bq=author=frances%20delavan%20page%20jermain&title=in%20the%20path%20of%20the%20alphabet%3B%20an%20historical%20account%20of%20the%20ancient%20beginnings%20and%20evolution%20of%20the%20mo

 

Heehee. That is something most of us have learned to our sorrow.

 

The author, Mrs. Frances D. Jermain, had died in 1905. Thus the designation that this was a "memorial edition." I don't find any earlier printing of this book. Perhaps she had worked on it for a long time? Her son, Sylvanus P. Jermain, had this book published in 1906 as a memorial to his mother.

Mrs. Jermain was the superintendent of the Toledo (Ohio) public library for a while, and before that was a reference librarian there.
https://books.google.com/books?id=C...kMAQ#v=onepage&q="frances d. jermain"&f=false

I see that a branch of the library was named for her for a long time. I did not investigate whether or not this is still the case.

Her son Sylvanus Jermain was very well known in Toledo during his lifetime. See this list:
http://www.ottawapark.org/linked/spjermainnopics.htm

All that being said, this book would probably not have much value in general, unless there was some historian of Toledo, Ohio who might be interested in it, perhaps?

 

I once bought a German book from 1895 for $1.00... Old and likely rare, but not worth much at all. BUT it's really pretty and looks great on my antique book shelf

 

Thank you all soooo much for your help and information

 

Thank you

 

With 600 trillion books floating about, the vast majority are good for silverfish food.
There are books 10-20 years old worth more.

 

Some Buddhist philosophy book I picked up at the Chinese supermarket sold for $4 on half.com, 4x what I paid for a book 150 years older haha