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200125544Frederic Michigan: George A. Emerson 2001. 16 pages; with some black and white illustrations usually small and embedded within articles or as part of paid advertising. With pieces concerning constitutional rights in Michigan and U.S. citizens concerned with various causes. Letters including one regarding U.S. government occupational authority from Daniel Miller President of the Republic of Texas Provisional Government and others writing their reaction to 9/11; articles in the newspaper quote Ted Nugent the Mackinac Center for Public Policy the 666 found in all bar codes revealed as a sign of the imminent end of the world Free Militia pieces on property rights anti-Muslim rants Right Way L.A.W. of Akron OH concerning the fraudulent law profession; McGuckin and Christine Updates by Edgar J. Steele "Ruth Christine vs. the Reptiloid NWO Baby Snatchers"; a piece by Betsy McCaughey ex-lieutenant governor of NY on biological warfare; various conspiracy theories a maritime advisory concerning invasion fears across the Great Lakes region; "Land Lords of the World by Joseph Adam Gondek; Joe Dougherty on Gun Rights Compared to Civil Rights; also with more innocuous and placid articles for children town meeting notices bowling team standings church listings and various classified and page advertisements for area products and services. Approximately 11 1/2" x 17" size; newspaper format light wear old fold lines; in very good condition. Newspaper. Not Bound. Very Good. George A. Emerson paperback books
1981350441981. Softcover. VG- light scuffing to cover edges. Brown ill. wraps. 68 pp. Numerous bw plates. unknown books
141929Softcover. VG- Light scuffing to wraps; Small label and ink stamp at rear cover. Light brown wraps brown cloth spine. 35 pp. 38 bw plates. Focuses on Kahn's earlier and formative years in Russia and Western Europe and to his institutional work - especially the University of Michigan campus. paperback books
30146Softcover. VG. Blue/red stapled wraps. 22 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. unknown books
1994311591994. Softcover. VG. Pictorial stapled wraps. 16 pp. Numerous color and bw plates. unknown books
1900366431900. 5-1/4" x 7-3/4". Approx. 160 pp. Autograph album with red gilt decorated covers worn boards detached but present spine missing. Pages have been removed and the remaining pages are mostly loosened. Signatures are written both directly on the book's pages and also on separate pieces of paper tipped in. Some toning and staining of the occasional page. While the binding is in in fair condition the pages that remain are Good to Very Good.<br/><br/>Autographs include in part: <br/> "Auburn Nov. 14 1860 Dear Sir I comply very cheerfully with the request contain in your courteous note and remain Respectfully your obednt servant William H. Seward" U.S. Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869 Governor of New York and U.S. Senator from New York.<br/> "Washington 11 Feb 1861 Sir I have the pleasure of complying with your request. Respectfully yours John A. Dix". Secretary of the U.S. Treasury.<br/> "Yours truly Henry W. Longfellow" Famous poet and author of "Paul Revere's Ride".<br/> "Washington Dec. 16 1860/ Mr. T.A. Ashley/ Dear Sir Your letter of Dec. 10 is recd. Respectfully Preston King." Early free soil politician.<br/> "Dear Sir Faithfully Yours Charles Sumner" Massachusetts senator and Radical Republican.<br/> "Very truly yours Schuyler Colfax member from Indiana" <br/> "Washington Feb. 25 1861 to F.A. Ashley Esq. Dear Sir Yours of the 21st received and I hereby comply with your request Respectfully yours & c. Owen Lovejoy/ F.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich." U.S. Representative from Illinois conductor on the Underground Railroad brother of Elijah Lovejoy friend of Abraham Lincoln.<br/> "Washington D.C. August 24 1890 J.B.Cheadle Frankfort Indiana/ Represented the 9th Indiana District in the 50th & 51st Congresses. Elected in 1886 by 3416 majority and in 1888 by 4450 majority."<br/> "Very truly your friend W.H. Coffron North Baruch Mich. Washington D.C. 11/30/'84" with cartoon face. Michigan physician; graduate treasurer secretary and professor of Georgetown University.<br/> "With best wishes J. N. Gillette Governor of California Sept. 9th 1909". <br/> "House of Representatives Washington Feb. 21st 1861/ G.A. Ashley Esq. Detroit Mich. Sir Yours of the 19th came to hand this evening. Very respectfully your obedt. Servant Cyrus Aldrich" Minnesota;<br/> "Yours truly Jas. Harlan" Early Free Soil politician federal judge U.S. Cabinet Secretary of the Department of the Interior under President Johnson;<br/> "Mason W. Tappan Ho. Reps. Washington 2/14/1861 Sir I am making a hand somewhere; and I prefer to make it before I start to run at all" New Hampshire<br/> "I'll try it and let you know Sam Gordon Miles City Aug. 17 83" New York native later settled in Montana where he established the Yellowstone Journal.<br/> "Albany April 10 1861 Dear Sir If you think my humble name written with my own hand will add anything to the value of your collection it gives me pleasure to make this small contribution. Yours with respect Ira Harris/ To F.A. Ashley Esq." New York senator and friend of Abraham Lincoln. <br/> "My Dear Bill Yours Truly J. Guthrie Asst. U.S. Inspector Hulls San Francisco CA Eureka Ca. March 2 1905"<br/> H. Winter Davis "James R. Doolittle "Louis Kerrsft Rear Admiral U.S. Navy 2nd March 1905"; "Yours very truly/ Alex. W. Buel"Michigan; B.F. Magee M.C. Michigan; "Truly Yours John T. Shurtleff Sept. 25 1909"<br/>H.P. Baldwin'; A.A. Burnham CT; Chas. A. Mack Jr.; Kinsley S. Bingham MI; Frank Higham Detroit M.; R.E. Trowbridge MI; W.K. Sebastian AR; John A. Gilmer NC a member of the Confederate Congress; JesseD. Bright IN owned plantation in KY with slaves and was the only person from a Northern State expelled from the Senate for his Confederate sympathies; J. Morrison Harris MD; Wm. Bigler PA 12th governor of PA ; John Cochrane NY; Zachariah Chandler Michigan leading abolitionist in Congress; M.S. Latham MI; Alex. W. Buell MI; John J. Perry Oxford Maine; Kit Adams; Emerson Etheridge TN; Edgar Cowan U.S.S. PA; Jno Goode PA; Miss T.C. Ashley; Loren C. Caddell; USMP Maj. Samuel Ruggles prominent New Yorker ; W.J. Thorne M; Alfred Ely; Katie Lackey; "Eureka July 23 1908 Hit the bear hard! Charles Ausyl Clarke U.S. Navy with much affection for Mr. Bell"; "Washington City D.C. Feby. 14 1861/ I am Truly Yours J. Markley" Ohio; Milton S. Davis Lieut. U.S.S.; C. Case IN; Harry C. Frankenfield DC 11/30/84; W.B. Holland; Sedley Chaplin supt. Construction Supervising Architects Office Treasury Deptt. Sept. 21 1909: Edward J Morris PA; William Pennington NJ; Neal Delano; Miriam F. Richmond; "A of Michigan" followed by signatures of Frank Johnson Charles B. Wood Gore Porter R.E. Frazer Aaron C. Jewett George Kingsley James A. Brown Dept. of Medicine; "Edwin Z. Pritchett 1st Lieut. 1st Field Artillery June 24 1909"; Walter S. Sturgill; Edgar H. Towar Detroit; 4/30/1861; B. Stanton Ohio; J Stout Oregon; H.H. Munds 1883 Billings MT; Senator from California R.L. Edwards; R.F. Woolfield and WH. Coory Montana; and others. unknown books
193315606Detroit MI: Spencer & Wyckoff ca. 1933. First Edition. Very good. Sepia toned panorama photograph measuring approximately 10.5" x 3.5". Lettered in negative. Moderate handling wear. Overall good. <br/><br/>An original panorama photograph print of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp; Company No. 1616 at Standish Michigan. The installation appears small with two permanent buildings and six tents visible in the aerial view. Little has been recorded about the activities of the company though it's assigned project numbered "S-75" was likely the construction of a highway bridge over the Mollasses River which appears finished in the background of this image. During The Depression the CCC offered non-skilled labor opportunities to young unmarried men between the ages of 18-25. The paid time was served in six month stints with a maximum enrollment period of two years. Between 1933 and 1942 over 3 million young men were assigned to various conservation and infrastructure projects across The United States earning thirty dollars a month at the height of The Depression. This a scarce visual record of the activities of Company No. 1616. Spencer & Wyckoff unknown books
193446150Hamtramck MI: Michigan Communist Party 1934. First Edition. Broadside 22" x 14" printed recto-only on newsprint. Slight toning; small puncture to lower right corner else Very Good; shrink-wrapped on archival foamboard. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates which include one woman Jennie Romaniuk and one African-American candidate Cass Bailey. [Michigan Communist Party] unknown books
193414600Hamtramck MI: Michigan Communist Party 1934. First Edition. Broadside 22" x 14" printed recto-only on newsprint. Slight toning; mounted on archival board else Near Fine. Broadside announcing the 1934 Communist Party municipal ticket for the Detroit suburb of Hamtramck Michigan. Includes a large central portrait of mayoral candidate George Kristalsky and smaller portraits of seven City Council candidates which include one woman Jennie Romaniuk and one African-American candidate Cass Bailey. [Michigan Communist Party] unknown books
193416160Hamtramck MI 1934. Hand-painted banner 8.5cm x 65cm ca 3-1/4" x 26". In red and black on a white background. Archivally framed; old stains and tape adhesions; Good. Not examined out of frame. Scarce relic from the 1934 Hamtramck Michigan mayoral campaign in which George Kristalsky and a slate of seven communist candidates for City Council were defeated. Hamtramck a working-class suburb of Detroit was a center of radical labor activity during the Great Depression. unknown books
193227027Muskegon MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council 1932. Original bifolium issue 22.75cm printed in black on newsprint; 4pp. Slight toning to paper else Fine. An unrecorded Michigan newspaper produced briefly we assume by the Muskegon Unemployed Council. In addition to exposing corruption and mismanagement within Muskegon's municipal government the paper makes repeated invitations to unemployed workers to join the Communist Party and read the Daily Worker suggesting the Unemployed Council was if not an official CP front then at least heavily infiltrated by CP members and fellow travelers. This issue includes coverage of the Ford Hunger March in which 5 protesting workers were shot to death by Ford Company guards outside the gates of the River Rouge Plant.<br/><br/>Rare; we find no examples in the trade July 2015 with one location only in OCLC Library of Michigan; not found in the North American Union List of Serials 1939 ed. Muskegon Unemployed Council unknown books
193227000Muskegon MI: Muskegon Unemployed Council 1932. Two bifolium issues 22.75cm printed in black on newsprint; 4pp. Slight toning to paper else Fine. An unrecorded Michigan newspaper produced briefly we assume by the Muskegon Unemployed Council. In addition to exposing corruption and mismanagement within Muskegon's municipal government the paper makes repeated invitations to unemployed workers to join the Communist Party and read the Daily Worker suggesting the Unemployed Council was if not an official CP front then at least heavily infiltrated by CP members and fellow travelers. The first issue includes coverage of the Ford Hunger March in which 5 protesting workers were shot to death by Ford Company guards outside the gates of the River Rouge Plant.<br/><br/>Rare; we find no examples in the trade July 2015 with one location only in OCLC Library of Michigan; not found in the North American Union List of Serials 1939 ed. Muskegon Unemployed Council unknown books
1952489391952. Corporations. University of Michigan Law School. Lectures on Taxation of Business Enterprize Delivered at the Summer Institute on International and Comparative Law. University of Michigan Law School. Foreword by Paul G. Kauper. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School 1952. xxv 532 pp. Original cloth light shelfwear some fading to spine internally clean. $65. unknown books
192682582n.p. 1926. Paperback. Good. frontis portraits 87 2p. Wrapper. 23cm. Cover soiling; staining along right side of front cover. <br/><br/> paperback books
19751208815Washington D.C.: Freer/Smithsonian/University of Michigan 1975. First Edition. Quarto; 205pp; full tan cloth; no dustjacket as issued; light bumping and shelf-wear; contents clean and unmarked; profusely illustrated. volume 10 of the series dedicated to Professor Max Loehr. <br /> <p><br /> Shelve:<br><br /> HISTORY - CHINA<br /> <p><br /> Spine is beige cloth with black text. 1208815. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Freer/Smithsonian/University of Michigan unknown books
1873002809Philadelphia: John E. Potter and Company 1873. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 7 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 8 5-415 3; embossed brown cloth over boards illustrated in gilt and black; engraved portrait frontis; a few small rubbed spots to corners and tips of spine; small personal stamp of previous owner to first free leaf; spine slightly cocked; thin closed cuts to endpapers along hinges hinges themselves quite solid; overall in very good condition. Ida Glenwood pen name for Cynthia Roberts Gorton 1826 - 1894 was a blind poet author and temperance lecturer. Beginning to lose her sight at the age of 14 she became completely blind by her late twenties. Her first prose work the current "The Fatal Secret" was initially written in pencil and practically unreadable but soon after she acquired and became proficient in the newly-invented typewriter which she would use throughout her entire literary life. Wright II 1014. John E. Potter and Company hardcover books
184753689Detroit: A. S. Williams printer 1847. 8vo pp. 189 1; a few leaves curled at the corners else a very good copy in original printed blue wrappers. Clark Hist. Library only in OCLC. <br/><br/> A. S. Williams, printer unknown books
18862380051886. Initialed on board HMA June 15/86. 1-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches. Matted. Fine. Initialed on board HMA June 15/86. 1-3/4 x 8-1/4 inches. unknown books
1882318111882. Harrington E. Burke. Reports of Cases Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State of Michigan. 1836-1842. Second Edition: with Notes and References to Late Decisions by Thomas M. Cooley. Chicago: Callaghan & Company 1882. Hardcover. Cloth. Ex-private law firm stamp to endpapers. Very good. $10. unknown books
18808710Cleveland: Short & Forman 1880. Original printed wrappers stitched 54pp. Text illus. Light wear Very Good. Much data on the Road's growth in freight business particularly between Chicago and New York; financial data engineers' report on road mileage freight forwarded and received performance of locomotive engines passenger traffic by station and historical financial data. FIRST EDITION. Short & Forman unknown books
186018417Detroit: O.S. Gulley 1860. Original printed wrappers some foxing stitched 36pp. Scattered margin foxing Good. Information on the doings of the Conference the participants a list of members of the Detroit Conference the Committees' reports districts' reports. With Resolution opposing slavery FIRST EDITION. O.S. Gulley unknown books
185918416Detroit: Daily Free Press Book and Job Printing House 1859. Original printed wrappers some dust stitched 34pp. Scattered fox. Good. Information on the doings of the Conference the participants a list of members of the Detroit Conference the Committees' reports districts' reports. FIRST EDITION. Daily Free Press Book and Job Printing House unknown books
186418418Detroit: O.S. Gulley 1864. Original printed wrappers some soil stitched 52pp. Scattered foxing Very Good. Information on the doings of the Conference the participants a list of members of the Detroit Conference the Committees' reports districts' reports. The Report of the Committee on the State of the Country urges total victory in the Civil War: "An armistice offered by a government having right and justice all on its side to men in arms against it would be unparalleled in history and dishonorable in fact." Pages 48-52 and the rear wrapper contain advertisements for local Detroit businesses. FIRST EDITION. O.S. Gulley unknown books
1844296809Detroit: Bagg & Harmon 1844. hardcover. good. 213 pages foxed and age browned. 8vo original grey boards re-backed with holographic spine title. Detroit: Bagg & Harmon 1844. First Edition. Good.<br/><br/> Bagg & Harmon unknown books
183978928Detroit: John Bagg 1839. hardcover. good. 3 volumes. 8vo pages age browned and foxed rebound in blue cloth. Detroit John S. Bagg 1839 1845 and 1848. Good.<br/><br/> Includes incorporations of towns railroads and mining companies. With canals bridges and land improvements.<br/><br/> John Bagg unknown books
