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19593126Berkeley CA: Howell-North 1959. Hardcover. Fine. Oblong quarto 192 pp with many illustrations maps. A fine copy in publisher's gilt-stamped buckram lacking the dust jacket. Reprint of the 1880 edition. Includes "88 pages devoted to lithographic plates of homes ranches business buildings churches and schools - all made from original sketches of the year 1880." Oversized; additional shipping charges will apply for priority or international orders.As described in the preface "Los Angeles of 1880 was a small town surrounded by farms orange groves vineyards cattle ranches and occasional settlements" Includes history of the Missions the Mexican period of control early society pioneers agriculture and townships ranging from San Gabriel to Santa Ana. Howell-North hardcover books
1912004456Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co. 1912. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpage- "with my compliments Arthur R. Robinson". Robinson served as Republican U.S. Senator from Indiana 1925-1935. Very Good Plus edges of page block lightly soiled endpages lightly age-toned. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good Plus/No Jacket. M.A. Donohue & Co. Hardcover books
1889007035Madison WI: Brant & Fuller 1889. "With Historical Account of Allen County and the City of Fort Wayne Indiana. The Story of Its Progress from Savagery to Civilization." Illustrated. All edges gilt. A Very Good set Vol. 1 leather rubbed at spine ends and corners Vol.2 light rubbing to leather at tips. Contents clean tight and unmarked a bit of scattered foxing. . First Edition. Half Leather. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Brant & Fuller Hardcover books
193653061Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1936. First edition thus 8vo pp. xiii 1 459-738; frontispiece map and approx. 113 illustrations in the text; original limp ochre cloth lettered in green on upper cover and spine. "The main text of this volume is identical with the Keys and Descriptions in the second volume of the revised edition of The Birds of Minnesota issued by the University of Minnesota Press in 1936. The page and figure numbers have been retained to avoid the cost of resetting" Preface. <br/><br/> University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
193653062Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1936. 8vo pp. xiii 1 459-738; frontispiece map and approx. 113 illustrations in the text; original limp tan cloth lettered in brown on upper cover and spine. "The main text of this volume is identical with the Keys and Descriptions in the second volume of the revised edition of The Birds of Minnesota issued by the University of Minnesota Press in 1936. The page and figure numbers have been retained to avoid the cost of resetting" Preface. <br/><br/> University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
193252951Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1932. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. xxii 2 691 3; xv 3 821 3; 92 color plates after paintings and watercolors by Allan Brooks Francis Lee Jacques Walter John Breckenridge plus others and including 1 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; generally a fine sound set in original green cloth gilt-lettered spine and upper cover. <br/><br/> University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
193622261Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1936. Second edition revised; 2 volumes 4to pp. iii-xxvi 2 718; iii-xvii 3 850; 92 color plates after paintings and watercolors by Allan Brooks Francis Lee Jacques Walter John Breckenridge plus others and including 1 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spines publisher's slipcase; fine. Textually the best edition of this standard work. <br/><br/> University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
193228469Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 1932. First edition 2 volumes 4to pp. xxii 2 691 3; xv 3 821 3; 92 color plates after paintings and watercolors by Allan Brooks Francis Lee Jacques Walter John Breckenridge plus others and including 1 by Louis Agassiz Fuertes; some rubbing and wear else a good sound set in orig. green cloth gilt-lettered spine and upper cover. <br/><br/> University of Minnesota Press hardcover books
19765044Albany New York: New York State Museum 1976. 1st. Original Wraps. Collectible; Very Good. 1976 1st edition. Solid and VG in its pictorial wrappers with very light creasing and rubbing to the panels. Quarto 325 pgs. <br/><br/> New York State Museum paperback books
1890300411<p>Thin octavo. 16 pages plus light green printed wrappers. Not signed. Souvenir program produced for the opening of the Loring Opera House in Riverside California on January 8 1890.</p> Riverside, CA, Phoenix Job and Book Department paperback books
19502221978<p>First edition thus. Octavo. Original red wrappers with title "Oil Humor in 1865." Illustrated with facsimile stock certificate. Fine. Unpaginated. No signatures or bookplates.</p><p>One of 60 copies by Rittenhouse and The Cole-Holmquist Press on Dawnflake stock.</p><p>A facsimile of the 1865 J. L. Magee edition.</p> The Stagecoach Press paperback 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
1902005501Indianapolis IN: Bowen - Merrill 1902. Near Fine cloth lightly rubbed at the tips sticker scar front end page. In original maroon decorative cloth gilt lettering wonderful Howard Chandler Christy illustrations. Decorations by Virginia Keep. Unpaginated pale red lettering at end pages. A quite handsome copy. . First Edition Thus. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Howard Chandler Christy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Bowen - Merrill Hardcover books
008590No Place: No Publisher SCARCE the beloved James Whitcomb Rley poem "Away". No Publisher no date circa 1889-1925. Fourteen lines on stiff brown paper with author's name at end hand-colred and decorated with capital "I"and floral decorations. In original frame under glass the frame measures 8 1/2" x 6". Fine not examined out of frame. "I cannot say and I will not say That he is dead. He is just away.". Broadside. Fine. 8" x 5 1/2". No Publisher Paperback books
1942008591Indianapolis IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Co. 1942. RARE note card with the famous Riley poem "Away". 5 1/4" x 4 1/2" with ribbon-tied lock of an unknown person's hair. Near Fine 2 small spots faint soiling. Handwritten text to verso. A quite unique bit of Rileyana. . First Thus. Cardstock. Near Fine. 5 1/4" x 4 1/2". The Bobbs-Merrill Co. Paperback books
1915004496Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill 1915. "Indiana is proud of its "National Poet." The first official public celebration occurred in 1915 when Governor Samuel Moffett Ralston decreed October 7th as Riley Day. The state celebration swept across the country as the National Commissioner of Education issued instructions for a nationwide observance in all public schools. A birthday dinner in honor of the Poet was held in Indianapolis and attended by four hundred people. Many admirers were turned away and telegrams from countless well-wishers were cabled including one from President Woodrow Wilson. To mark the event a special birthday edition of Riley's Poems Here at Home was published and distributed to attendees."Lilly Library This copy one of those printed for the 400 dinner attendees. It is dated October Seventh Nineteen Hundred Fifteen on the title page and states Birthday Dinner Edition front cover. Top edge gilt Near Fine white cloth at spine lightly soiled. ASSOCIATION COPY from the library of Will H. Hays most famously known as the first President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America MPPDA which under his guidance published a blacklist of actors and workers studios should not hire inserted moral clauses into actors' contracts and published an informal list of suggested guidelines for film producers. Although no written indication in the book of Hays ownership the book was purchased from his estate and laid in is a printed 1 page foldedspeech Hays gave at the Indiana State Fairgrounds on Sept. 22 1915 published and presented by The McKinley Club and a single page folded review of Hays from the New York Evening Post. This Birthday Dinner Edition is RARE in the marketplace and made even more so by this great Hoosier Association. . Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket As Issued. Illus. by Kemble E.W. Association Copy. Bobbs-Merrill Hardcover books
1910008608No Place: Bobbs-Merrill 1910. Compiled from the works of James Whitcomb Riley with each day having an excerpt from previously published poems. String-tied 64 leafs unpaginated. With photograph portrait of the author front cover. Very Good Plus lacking the rear cover first page of calendar loose. SCARCE. . First Printing. Calendar. Near Fine. 10 1/2" x 6 3/4". Bobbs-Merrill Paperback books
1890008491Columbus Ohio: Copyright W. H. Fisher G.P and T.A./ Printed by the Ohio State Journal 1890. First Edition 1890. Illustrated by W. H. Mullay. Oblong 8vo original printed wrappers printed on coated white paper tied with white string replacing original brown ribbon with buckeye attached. 10 unnumbered leaves. Each leaf contains one verse of Riley's poem in black and illustrations and part of the story "Tale of a Million" not by Riley in purple. BAL 16567. Russo pages 152-153. Very Good top left corner each leaf with triangular loss of the white coated paper leaving the underlying brown paper showing only affecting the edges of a few of the illustrations which appear to be hand-redrawn. RARE. A single copy at auction 1935 another copy as part of a large collection at auction in 1947.OCLC notes 6 library holdings. . First Printing. Printed Wrappers. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. Copyright W. H. Fisher, G.P and T.A./ Printed by the Ohio State Journal Paperback books
1913008607Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company/ Platt & Peck Co. 1913. SCARCE. Front cover illustration by Howard Chandler Christy calendar string-tied at top edge. A weekly calndar with apples in trees illustrations at top of each page. Very Good 1 1/2" chip left side front cover and first calendar page large triangular chip bottom corner rear cover and rear page smaller chips and edge wear to covers. Interior calendar pages clean and lovely. . First Printing. Calendar. Very Good. 9 1/2" x 6". Bobbs-Merrill Company/ Platt & Peck Co. Paperback books
188038280Chicago: W.G. Holmes 1880. First edition 8vo pp. xx 388; 437; 2 plates; spine faded but a good sound copy or better in original green cloth. With an early presentation to "Dr. E. S. Allen from his Aunt Lydia &c. Fort Sully Feby. 24th '82.". Riggs and his wife Mary were missionaries to the Sioux stationed mostly at Lac Qui Parle in Minnesota. Riggs was the author of the Dakota Grammar and Dictionary and the Gospel among the Dakotas. Howes R-288; Sabin 71339. <br/><br/> W.G. Holmes hardcover books
188713046Boston: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society 1887. 8vo pp. 437; 2 plates; one signature starting upper hinge cracked else good or better in original brown cloth gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. Riggs and his wife Mary were missionaries to the Sioux stationed mostly at Lac Qui Parle in Minnesota. Riggs was the author of the Dakota Grammar and Dictionary and the Gospel among the Dakotas. Howes R-288. <br/><br/> Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society hardcover books
188720994Boston: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society 1887. 8vo pp. 437; 2 plates; faint old library marking on spine else good or better in original brown cloth gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. Riggs and his wife Mary were missionaries to the Sioux stationed mostly at Lac Qui Parle in Minnesota. Riggs was the author of the Dakota Grammar and Dictionary and the Gospel among the Dakotas. Howes R-288. <br/><br/> Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society hardcover books
198752366La Crosse: Sumac Press for Juniper Press 1987. Edition limited to 300 copies 13 x 9.5 cm pp. 12; mustard printed wrappers fine. Rulon-Miller Wulling 183. <br/><br/> Sumac Press for Juniper Press unknown books
1849RRICMEM00MWSenate 1849. Very Good. Richards Willard Secretary of State. Memorial of the Members of the Legislative Council of the Provisional Government of Deseret Praying for Admission into the Union as a State or for a Territorial Governement. NP: Senate 1849. 14pp. 8vo. Pamphlet. Book condition: Very good with light soiling. Senate unknown books
1941007016Crawfordsville Indiana: The Journal and Review 1941. RARE. OCLC lists only 1 institutional holding. SIGNED by the Mayor and all of the City Council and other officers of the City of Crawfordsville at the time of printing. Signatures present front end page include Mayor Thomas L. Cooksey City Attorney Raymond O. Evans Clerk-Treasurer Clark D. Jones Councilmen Earl Barcus Walter Cunningham Forrest S. Jackman Everett L. Paxton Walter B. Remley Richard Whittington and Clinton Williams Additionally SIGNED by Frank E. Rose Glen D. Hayworth Lex Doggie Clore John F. Pitman Lloyd McCormick Elmer Wood and Merle Remley. Total of 17 signatures. Book is Very Good boards lightly soiled small tear top edge rear pastedown. A unique piece of Crawfordsville history. . SIGNED. Revised Edition. Cartes-de-Visite. Very Good/No Jacket As Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Journal and Review Paperback books
