The Evart-Gunn Publishing Company Book Salvage Operation

During my recent travels in the Michigan Upper Peninsula, when I stopped in Cadillac, Wexford County, Michigan, at a Bed and Breakfast just off Granite, I came upon a true treasure trove: three very large wooden boxes filled with books by a bunch of publishing houses from all over the world, members of something called the Association of Small International Book Editors (ASIBE). My host, who acquired the property just a few of months ago planning a killing on tourist rentals, was cleaning out the large, solid, wooden barn at the back of the plot where he found these crates and was seriously contemplating to throw them into the thrash/recycle bin. In an effort to salvage them I tempted him with a potential windfall saying that old books are often valuable and many people will pay good money for the right wares. I offered to produce an inventory and a catalog of their content and we agreed to share the proceeds he providing the books and I investing my skills, knowledge experience and labor. From his greed and my curiosity this strange and unusual endeavor was born.
As I progress in my travail, I will publish on the web this log (recte blog), for yous to enjoy the fruits of my toils. Each blog post represents a book and an entry in my catalog.
Documents found in one of the boxes showed provenance: everything came from the Evart-Gunn Publishing Inc. of Evart, about forty miles to the South of Cadillac, founded in 1876 by a certain Cpt. Jonathan Gunn. It seemed he was also a founding member of ASIBE having traveled to Rotterdam in May 1878 to the first (and only) ASIBE conference where/when said association was established. The charter, a copy of which I discovered in the files together with the minutes of the meeting, was simple, it listed all members and specified that each member is obliged to supply all other members with a copy of any book they publish. Indications were that this was the brainchild of M. H. Simionescu, owner and editor in chief of "Editura Prahova Nouă" of Comarnic, Romania.