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196532774New York Chicago et al.: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1965. First edition no. 188 of 500 numbered and signed copies; 8vo pp. 10 309; limitation-p. tipped in before the half-title 2 double-p. maps 13 illustrations in text 3 double-p.; fine copy in original blue cloth publisher's slipcase. <br/><br/> Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover books
199650600Minneapolis: James C. Hillegass 1996. First edition 8vo pp. 8 32 4; photographic endpapers photoreproductive illustrations throughout by John Ratzloff; original full grey cloth over boards front cover stamped in silver. This copy inscribed by the author to Greg Campbell Campbell-Logan Bindery: "For Greg and the binders thanks for making it happen. Jim Hillegass." Fine copy. <br/><br/> James C. Hillegass hardcover books
199750624Duluth: Superior Partners 1997. Edition limited to 175 copies 8vo pp.xiv 4 179 5; mounted photographic frontispiece portrait 3 full-p. maps 40 illustrations on rectos and versos of 12 plates; original embossed blue-green cloth printed paper label omn spine; publisher's slipcase; fine. Designed and hand printed from photo-polymer plates by Emily Strayer at the Kutenai Press Saint Paul plates made by her mentor Gerald Lange of the Bieler Press Maria Del Rey. <br/><br/> Superior Partners hardcover books
19047148Minneapolis: H.H.S. Rowell the Housekeeper Press 1904. First and only edition 8vo 371-372pp. frontis portrait of O'Brien and 26 illus. on 23 plates; a few signatures extended and the whole slightly shaken but still a very good reasonably bright copy in orig. red ribbed cloth gilt. Includes accounts of the first Minnesota literary society and the first Minneapolis bookstore and stories of sawmills on the St. Anthony and Indians on the plains all recounted with authority by O'Brien a writer for the Minneapolis newspaper who came to the territory in 1855 and was closely connected with what he describes. <br/><br/> H.H.S. Rowell, the Housekeeper Press hardcover books
193045844Alvarado Minn: Maranatha Tract Mission 1930. 8vo pp. 8; self-wrappers; short tear along previous fold pages uniformly toned else very good and sound. Peterson appears to have been the editor of a the Alvarado-based Baptist journal "Maranatha" as well as two collections of Christmas tracts. The 1940 census lists a P. Alfred Peterson born in Sweden in 1886 and currently residing in Alvarado Minnesota with a wife and 5-year-old son. The author's foreign origins would most likely explain the use of the non-existent word "Appearings" in the title. This monograph on the appearances of Christ appears to be unrecorded with no holdings in OCLC COPAC or the Minnesota Historical Society as of July 2014. <br/><br/> Maranatha Tract Mission unknown books
191052954Minneapolis: Salisbury & Satterlee Co 1910. Small 4to pp. 170; illustrated throughout mostly beds but also box springs and mattresses; original gilt-embossed green wrappers; very good and sound. Three pieces of company ephemera laid in. <br/><br/> Salisbury & Satterlee Co unknown books
193245071Minneapolis: Voyageur Press and Fred Totten Phelps 1932. First edition of the first book of the Voyageur Press "an institution founded upon the ideals of fine printing coupled with the desire to make available to interested persons the wealth of historical material to be found in Minnesota and environs" 8vo pp. 6 75; title page printed in red and black; original cloth in pale pink pictorial dust jacket; shallow chips and tears along jacket edges not affecting text spine faded; interior fine. Signed by Phelps on the colophon. <br/><br/> Voyageur Press [and] Fred Totten Phelps hardcover books
192729102New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1927. First edition 8vo pp. 14 360; map endpapers color frontispiece portrait and 14 plates after drawings by Russell Lindsay Speakman and the author; back panel of dust-jacket lightly toned else fine. A damp but bucolic adventure of a voyage from the Mississippi headwaters to the Gulf of Mexico by canoe and a 20' houseboat. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Co unknown books
193143484St. Paul: St. Paul Abstract Company 1931. Large square 4to mixed pagings; chiefly black and white plates of maps and plans; original green postbound printed cloth thumb index listing White Bear Mounds View Rose and New Canada; edges and corners quite rubbed and worn with exposed boards; contemporary rubber stamp of the First Trust Company of St. Paul to front free endpaper and title page; typescript additions and index dated as late as 1968 mounted throughout including to endpapers with some plates entirely replaced with new plans; occasional tape repair throughout. 3 copies in OCLC all at Minnesota institutions. <br/><br/> St. Paul Abstract Company hardcover books
191129806Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher 1911. Edition limited to 50 copies printed on Japan vellum "and the type distributed" 12mo pp. x 47 2; title-page with printer's device printed in red and a handful of head- and tail-pieces throughout; original art vellum covered boards lettered in black and red on front cover and spine; the slightest darkening of the top spine end otherwise a very fine unopened copy in the original glassine with some chipping along edges. <br/><br/> Thomas B. Mosher hardcover books
190929811Minneapolis: Edmund D. Brooks 1909. First edition 2 vols. 8vo pp. xxvi 254; vii 1 262; gravure portrait and 1 facsimile; a fine set in orig. tan buckram lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine with green cloth chemises spotted at the base of the spines each with a leather label on spine. Life work of the Minnesota poet edited by his classmate and published by the eccentric Twin City bookseller. <br/><br/> Edmund D. Brooks hardcover books
191222195Minneapolis: Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co 1912. First edition oblong 8vo pp. 48; 12 color lithograph illus. with accompanying illustration uncolored on the verso of which are directions for coloring; text gives the history of Ceres and the rise of Ceresota Flour; one small tear on the back wrapper else near fine in orig. color pictorial wrappers and preserving the original mailing envelope with a large color illustration on the front. A coloring book promoting Ceresota Flour with directions for the use of Japanese watercolors. <br/><br/> Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co unknown books
191618295Chicago: Reilly & Britton 1916. 8vo pp. 240; very good in orig. red cloth gilt lettering. Inscribed by the printer Emerson Wulling: "Major General Leonard Wood U.S. Army was Republican Presidential candidate in 1920. While in Minneapolis during his campaign he was placed by the local committee into my charge. As his host I conducted him through the city including the University he spoke briefly on other than political matters . before beginning his address he said: 'Dean Wulling and I have many things in common the outstanding one being that we both started out in pharmacies . If I could become as good a President as Dr. Wulling has become an educational administrator I would be satisfied.' When Harding won the Presidential election in 1921 the General sent me this book through his publisher with his compliments." <br/><br/> Reilly & Britton hardcover books
1935006562New York: Columbia University Press 1935. RARE extract. Paginated 389-515. Very Good Plus from the collection of noted anthropologist linguist and ethnomusicologist George Herzog his signature last name in ink top edge front cover sticker shadow front cover wrappers toned at edges. Printed on cover and title page as coming from Vol. IV pencil corrected to Vol. III. . First Edition Thus. Printed Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Columbia University Press Paperback books
197432435Ft. Collins CO: Old Army Press 1974. First Edition. Fine in original cloth and fine pictorial dust jacket. Oblong quarto. With a foreword by James S. Hutchins. "Author's Edition" one of 250 copies signed by James Du Mont. <br/><br/> (Old Army Press) hardcover books
19202221583<p>First edition February 1920 Harper code B-U Feb 1920. Octavo. Illustrated with nine full page b/w drawings by J. Scott Williams; plus vignettes in the text. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket with original $1.50 price which replicates design of the boards a few short creases; tiny tears no chips. Mostly unopened. Fine. 301 pages. No signatures or bookplates.</p> Harper & Brothers Publishers hardcover books
1932008619Mount Morris Illinois/ New York: Popular Book Corporation 1932. Near Fine small corner crease bottom corner rear wrapper very light rubbing. SCARCE in collectible condition. . First Printing. Magazine. Near Fine. Tall 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Popular Book Corporation Paperback books
1924305814<p>14" x 6 1/2". Brochure folds to form 8 page prospectus. Illustrated with 6 b/w photographs; 2 panel pictorial air-plane map. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. Edward A. Salisbury's proposed weekend resort located up Boquet Canyon an hour and thirty minutes from Los Angeles. Sites were offered at $200.00 including golf club membership. Together with a Typed Letter Signed "Herbert Ellis" giving further details of the La Joya resort - a "virgin paradise."</p> La Joya Lodge unknown books
1909007162Alaska: Pacific Coast Steamship Company 1909. RARE advertising card for the Pacific Coast Steamhip Co. featuring a black and white photograph of three Native women one with a child in carrier on her back prepearing a meal over a campfire across water from a glacier. Card size 5 3/4" x 8" image size 4 1/4" x 7 1/2" with text underneath reading "AN ALASKA CHRISTMAS DINNER: Here's to good fortune for Nineteen Naught Nine ! May you always have food when the time comes to dine ! May you always find gold in your prospecting pan ! May Good health attend you ! Yours ". Very Good bottom left corner creased small chip top edge. Native American. Gold prospecting. . Cardstock. Very Good. 5 3/4" H x 8" W. Pacific Coast Steamship Company Paperback books
1992007574New York: Dutton 1992. Publisher's promotional poster 34"w x 22"h featuring two photographs of Marilyn by Photo Researchers NY. Near Fine faint creases 1/4" repaired tear left edge. Well suited for framing will ship loosely rolled in a mailing tube. . First Printing. Poster. Near Fine. 34" x 22". Dutton books
1901008638Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1901. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on tipped sheet at front end page - "Christmas greetings from John Burroughs Dec. 24 1920". This title SCARCE SIGNED. Very Good some spotting at end pages rubbed at corners and edges. "With fifteen illustrations in colors after Audubon and a frontispiece from life". . SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 2nd Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jackets. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Company Hardcover books
1905001608Hartford CT: Aetna Insurance Co. 1905. 35 pages in beige wrappers printed in gilt tied with brown string illustrated with 6 black and white tissue covered plates. Includes a poem written by Benjamin B. Whittemore on the occasion of the dedication of the new building June 8 1905. Wrappers a bit dusty a fascinating look at this company at the turn of the 20th century. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Aetna Insurance Co. Paperback books
1906005088Indianapolis IN: George S. Cottman 1906. RARE 106 pages Very Good in the original wrappers wrappers worn at spine. Features include Georege W. Julian: Some Impressions River Navigation in Indiana The First Steamboat on the White River Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers. . First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. George S. Cottman Paperback books
1903008975New York: G. P Putnam's Sons 1903. Reprinted March 1903 following the First Edition First Printing of November 1902. Very good in original decorative cloth the spine darkened top edge gilt a bit dulled. Internally clean bright and unmarked the binding solid. From the collection of Joseph Hyde Pratt his signature in red front end page noted North Carolina geologist conservationist state and civic leader and WWI hero. . Second Printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. G. P Putnam's Sons hardcover books
192421019Los Angeles: Printed by Santos Printing Shop for Ing. Luis R. Goldbaum 1924. Softcover. Very good. 7 x 4.5 inches 213 pp side-stapled wrappers with map of Mexican mining centers on rear wrapper. Dampstain to first three leaves staples rusted otherwise very good. The author Luis also Louis R. Goldbaum was born in Mexico ca. 1871 to a Prussian-Jewish father and a Mexican mother. His older brother David Goldbaum 1858 was a surveyor who explored much of Baja California and from 1927-30 served as the Mayor of Ensenada. Luis worked as a mining engineer in Mexico and in border towns in Texas and Arizona before settling in the Los Angeles area around 1923. In a one-page introduction to this book he explains: "I have endeavored to give in full to the mining men prospector and explorer while in Old-Mexico a complete detailed and general information on the procedures steps to take Offices Government-Departments and Officials to occur and to see and costs and expenses until acquiring the desired object; illustrating to him complete Mexican-Mining Law of the Republic of the United States of Mexico; and in many other valuable and most needed general information." The book includes both an overview and a more extended digest of Mexican mining law; a list of procedures for obtaining a claim with specifics for foreigners; information on taxes assay fees and other expenses; information on minerals assay tests and methods of processing ore; a glossary of mining terms in Spanish and English and more. A page at the beginning notes that the buyer of this book is entitled to free membership in the "Mail-Consulting Department" of the "Mexican General Advisory Co." giving said buyer the right to consultation on changes in Mexican mining law "and any other dependable information on Old Mexico matters" for a period of one year. Printed by Santos Printing Shop for Ing. Luis R,. Goldbaum unknown books
