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1938TB28672n.p.: Sponsored by The New Jersey Commissionto Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement by the Swedes and Finns on the Delaware 1938. First Edition. Very good in royal blue ribbed cloth covered boards with tarnished gilt text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the head and heel of the spine is lightly rubbed and there is a prior owner's name on the upper fore corner of the first free end page. The end sheets are printed with a map of southern New Jersey. Without it issued dust jacket. A small 4to measuring 9 1/8 by 6 inches. One of the more unusual titles in the American Guide Series as noted on the title page.165 pages including an index bibliography chronology text and illustrated with black and white photographs throughout and map end papers. Sponsored by The New Jersey Commissionto Commemorate the 300th Anniversary of the Settlement by the Swedes and Finns on the Dela hardcover books
1937TB27208Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office 1937. First Edition. Very good in heavy black cloth covered boards with faded gilt text stamping on the spine and illustrated map end sheets. A thick small quarto measuring 9" by 6" with minor soiling and rubbing to the boards. Without its issued dust jacket. This was the second volume published in the American Guide Series and is quite scarce. 1141 pages including an index bibliography chronology text and illustrated with maps and black and white photographs throughout. With both of the two multi-colored maps in the rear pocket both of which are in fine condition. U. S. Government Printing Office hardcover books
191141864Minneapolis: V.O. Hammon Pubshling Co 1911. Oblong 12mo pp. 52; fifty illustrations in color; original brown string-bound wrappers printed in green color plate mounted to upper cover; some wear to yapp edges interior fine. Photo-based tour of picturesque scenes and architecture in Minneapolis. <br/><br/> V.O. Hammon Pubshling Co unknown books
194158139Chicago: Albert Whitman & Co 1941. First edition 8vo pp. xxi 1 231 3; illustrated throughout map endpapers 4 maps in the text; back hinge starting near fine copy in original green cloth dust jacket with a couple closed tears and with some tape removal on the front flap leaving a scar but still very good. Whence Bob Dylan and published the very year he was born in Duluth. The introduction is by Margaret Culkin Banning. <br/><br/> Albert Whitman & Co hardcover books
193037036Minneapolis: Bruce Publishing Company 1930. Large 8vo two volumes; portrait frontis. of Dr. William Beaumont; ex-library book with usual markings; bound in blue hatched cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine; black and white photographic illustrations and facsimiles throughout. A very good set. <br/><br/> Bruce Publishing Company hardcover books
192229322Mankato Minn: privately printed by the Free Press at Christmas 1922. Limited edition of an unknown number 16mo pp. 95 1; pictorial limitation-p. 6 full-p. illus. from photographs; original blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover; inscription in a shaky hand on front free endpaper noting that this book was a gift from Mr. & Mrs. Charles Butler; extremities rubbed good and sound. Minnesota Historical and Mankato Public Library only in OCLC. <br/><br/> [privately printed by the Free Press at Christmas hardcover books
193330965Minneapolis MN: Privately printed 1933. First edition 8vo pp. 6 329; frontispiece portrait; very good in original maroon cloth lettered in gilt on spine the gilt fading and the covers showing minor wear and damp staining. The life 1857-1938 and accomplishments of the founder of Dayton's department store in Minneapolis MN in 1903 precursor to today's Target Corporation told through reminiscences correspondence and the texts of speeches. <br/><br/> Privately printed hardcover books
199450506n.p. Minneapolis: privately printed 1994. Edition limited to 200 copies 8vo pp. 8 71 1; photographs of Dayton and the Dayton family throughout; green cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards paper label on spine fine in a fine slipcase. The binding paper was designed by John DePol. Short reminiscences of childhood family life and business as told in "stories . told to and recorded by Wallace Dayton's daughter Ellen during the fall and winter of 1993-1994." <br/><br/> privately printed hardcover books
192620980Minneapolis: Ward C. Burton 1926. First edition 16mo pp. 53; illustrations throughout text; printed paper label upper cover spine worn else very good in original gray paper-covered boards. NUC locates 4 copies. <br/><br/> Ward C. Burton hardcover books
191053443St. Paul: McGill-Warner Co 1910. 8vo pp. 405 1 xxiii 1; portrait frontispiece and text illustrations throughout; burgundy cloth gilt; covers soiled closed tear on last page textblock cocked but sound ex-Minnesota State library with their stamps on endpapers and title page. A history of the early years of the second largest state fair in the US with a number of pictures of old fairgrounds and buildings. <br/><br/> McGill-Warner Co hardcover books
191758147Washington: Government Printing Office 1917. Large 8vo pp. 2 261 1; 54 plates; original tan cloth with gilt title on spine; covers lightly dampstained text clean and sound very good. A report "on all matters pertaining to the regulation of the levels of the Lake of the Woods and the advantageous use of its waters shores and harbors." <br/><br/> Government Printing Office hardcover books
198157964Saint Paul: Midnight Paper Sales 1981. Edition limited to 280 copies this one of 220 unsigned by the poet and artist; 12mo pp. 24; linoleum-cut illustrations including one on the upper wrapper; printed on beige paper and bound in white pictorial wrappers; without the tissue overlay otherwise; about fine. Quarter to Midnight A.32.b: "The paper used to print this chapbook 'was lifted from the Sacred Bins it is holy ground' colophon. The 'sacred bins' were the wire bins for refuse paper at Anchor Paper Company Saint Paul." <br/><br/> Midnight Paper Sales unknown books
193527918Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin 1935. First edition reprinted in 1971 8vo pp. xvii 1 361; 10 plates including 2 maps; near fine in original maroon basketweave cloth lettered in gilt direct on spine. The companion volume to and narrative continuation of the author's The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest Madison 1925 The British Regime focuses on the period 1760 to 1815. Howes K-50 K-51 for the French Regime. <br/><br/> State Historical Society of Wisconsin hardcover books
191453437Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith 1914. 8vo pp. 2 536; photographic frontispieces for each issue and text illustrations throughout; original blindstamped brown cloth fine. <br/><br/> Harrison & Smith hardcover books
191015323Iowa City: Iowa State Historical Society 1910. First edition 8vo pp. 210; spine slightly discolored else a very good copy in orig. gilt-stamped blue cloth t.e.g. The "Old Northwest" consisted of those territories ceded to the U.S. in the treaty with Britain in 1783 and organized under the Ordinance of 1787 that later became the states of Ohio Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. <br/><br/> Iowa State Historical Society hardcover books
197253013Seattle: Superior Publishing Co 1972. First trade edition 4to pp. 192; map endpapers; illustrated throughout; fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket. With a long and personal inscription from the author dated November 28 1972 on the half title. <br/><br/> Superior Publishing Co unknown books
197253012Seattle: Superior Publishing Co 1972. First edition limited to 250 copies this no. 41; 4to pp. 192; map endpapers; illustrated throughout; fine copy in an unclipped dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Gummed Northwest logo label laid in. <br/><br/> Superior Publishing Co unknown books
198553685Chicago: Collectors' Club of Chicago 1985. First edition 8vo pp. xiv 329 1; folding color map and a first-day cover of a Fort Snelling stamp laid into rear pocket as issued; nearly 300 illustrations throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. Signed on the title page by Risvold. <br/><br/> Collectors' Club of Chicago unknown books
199558005Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts 1995. Deluxe edition limited to 50 copies this no. 20; translucent patterned inserts text printed in red green and black text illustrations green paper boards backed in art vellum fine. Accompanied by an original print signed by Rose all in original clamshell box. The Winter Books series is an annual project of the Minnesota Center for Book arts in which students artists designers and volunteers come together to produce a limited edition book by a Minnesota author. Letterpress by Chax Press handmade covers by Bridget O'Malley binding by Wilber Schilling. <br/><br/> Minnesota Center for Book Arts hardcover books
192324208Chicago et al.: Rand McNally 1923. First edition 12mo pp. 6 166; newspaper clippings tipped onto endpapers; near fine in orig. pictorial green cloth stamped in black and orange. Boy's fiction. This copy inscribed on the flyleaf "Given to O.W. Anderson that veteran book collector from the friend of his youth A.J. Russell." <br/><br/> Rand, McNally hardcover books
193416669St. Cloud: Times Publishing Co 1934. Only edition 8vo pp. iii-xxxvi 2 268; very good copy in orig. red cloth gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor. Among the contributors are Meridel Le Seuer Ruth Shepard Phelps Arthur Upson and William C. Edgar among others each with a paragraph or two of biography. <br/><br/> Times Publishing Co hardcover books
197650445St. Paul: Bookslinger Editions 1976. Edition limited to 300 copies this no. 173 signed by the author 12mo pp. 24; hand-sewn into Darjeeling endsheets with Richard de Bas paper covers; fine. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum Toothpaste Press West Branch Iowa. <br/><br/> Bookslinger Editions unknown books
195838284Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1958. First edition small 4to pp. viii 302 2; photographic illustrations some in color throughout; original black pictorial boards some edge wear else a fine copy. Signed by the author and R. P. Gale. The illustrations are grouped into 4 sections portraying the setting of the Minnesota story the settlement and life on the land the social institutions and the ways in which the people of the state earn their living and provide for others. The text contains excerpts from the writing of others including a French voyageurs' canoeing song T.S. Eliot and various pioneers as well as the author's own explanatory comments. <br/><br/> University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
190516555New York: Macmillan 1905. First edition of the author's penultimate book sm. 8vo pp. vi 2 134; fine in orig. green cloth gilt lettering and decoration on spine and upper cover t.e.g. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
193152174St. Paul: Webb Publishing Co 1931. First edition of Wandrei's second book limited to 400 numbered copies; fine copy in the fragile chipped gold foil jacket. <br/><br/> Webb Publishing Co unknown books
