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18938058baILansing MI: Robert Smith 1893. Book. Good condition. Hardcover. Fourth edition. Octavo 8vo. Michigania; natural resources; economics; 4th ed.; 287 pages 2p.; 24cm; blind stamped brown cloth rubbed; spine frayed; corners slightly bumped; frontis.; illus. mostly from photos; large fold-out map; owner marks. Fourth edition. Robert Smith Hardcover 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
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
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
1859WRCAM49817Detroit 1859. 56pp. Gathered signatures stitched. Faint dampstain to upper corner of first several leaves some spotting and minor foxing. Good plus. The seventh of sixty-four annual reports together with the reports of the superintendent engineer and secretary for the year of 1858. Includes many charts indicating distribution of water location and type of laid pipes placement of fire plugs street reservoirs inventory of tools and supplies comparative water purity and more. Rare with only two copies accounted for in Floyd Streeter's work on Michigan both in full runs of the reports in Michigan libraries. Not in OCLC. STREETER MICHIGAN 1032. SABIN 19792. unknown books
187233963Boston: Avery 1872. First Edition. 12pp. Original printed wrappers Avery unknown books
186115614Lansing 1861. 864pp covers gone backstrip worn. Text clean and Very Good but for occasional margin spotting and scattered foxing. The Session began on January 2 and ended February 22 Roads turnpikes railroads bonds corporations juvenile offenders and other aspects of the judicial system take up most of the Session. Michigan was not exactly in a state of readiness for the imminent War: of a total of 110600 able bodied men in the militia 1241 "are armed and equipped ready for active service." Resolutions express a firm determination to preserve the Union. FIRST EDITION. unknown books
1837BL4685Detroit:: John S. Bagg state printer 1837. 1837. 8vo. 354 pp. Pages 87-88 torn at margin minor. List of laws index. Original quarter brown cloth printed paper label plain boards; joints splitting loose corners showing. Bookplate of F. Ray Risdon. Very scarce. Important official record of law and acts relating widely to politics appointments collecting of various taxes commission to establish roads act for a geological survey acts of land sales responsibilities of the State Printer – his powers and duties acts relating to certain townships of weights and measures Tecumseh etc. etc. John S. Bagg, state printer, 1837. hardcover books
1940006706Detroit: Moslem Temple Shrine 1940. SCARCE Shrine circus program Very Good Plus light soiling to wrappers. 36 pp in stapled wrappers with numerous local advertisements Capt. Clyde Beatty Torelli's Midget Circus The Eltons Shorty Flemm and many more. . First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good Plus/No Jacket As Issued. Tall 8vo. Moslem Temple Shrine Paperback books
44114South Lyon Mich: Excelsior Print n. d. Ca 1880. Faint horizontal fold-line. Light age-toning to paper. VG. Broadside playbill including Cast of Characters and plot Synopsis for the three acts. 9-3/8" x 6-1/2" <br/><br/>While the playbill does not name the author of this work OCLC shows it to be W. Henri Wilkins a known author of other temperance dramas. Rare piece of job printing documenting a local town production of this work decrying the effects of alcohol "Admission 10 and 15 Cents. Doors open at 7:30 o'clock." Excelsior Print 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
1838BL4534Detroit:: E.B. Harrington and E. J. Roberts 1838. 1838. 8vo. 47 3 817 1 pp. Title vignette index errata; lacks rear free endleaf front endleaves both torn with portion missing no text loss heavily water-stained in parts. Original full mottled calf black gilt-stamped spine label; rubbed – with ownership signature of Solomon Case Esq. on upper cover. Ownership signature of J.S. Tarbell and Solomon Case . . . Kalamazoo MI. E.B. Harrington and E. J. Roberts, 1838. unknown books
187126898New York: Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck 1871. Original printed self-wrappers 12pp. Stitched scattered foxing last page heavily so Good.<br/><br/> Officers and Directors are listed the Road's Charter and route described the Road's connections delineated and the route's manufacturing capacity extolled. <br/>OCLC locates three copies under two accession numbers. Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck 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
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
187515868Lansing 1875. Caption title as issued. Printed in double columns. Stitched loose. 15pp scattered light wear. Good. On the constitutionality of railroad bonds issued by municipalities and whether federal courts in a State are bound to follow the law as interpreted by its State courts. Not in OCLC. unknown books
26191Broadside 7.5" x 9.5" printed on blue paper using different typsettings. Two horizontal folds short closed tear no text loss. Docketted on verso. Good or Very Good.<br/><br/> Signed in type by John B. Jervis and Edwin C. Litchfield. The Resolution is printed after the explanation of the need for a new issue of stock. unknown books
184228824Washington 1842. 27th Cong. 2d Sess. SD170. 12pp disbound one folding chart one folding map. Light foxing Very Good. unknown books
196949435Ann Arbor 1969. First Edition. Tabloid 39.25cm; photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 16pp; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers 1" tear to lower right corner of first few pages else Near Fine unfolded and without postal markings. Early issue of this short-lived bi-weekly counterculture paper out of Ann Arbor which had close ties to the White Panther Party and SDS. The paper was published by Ken Kelley a University of Michigan student who lived at the Trans-Love Energies commune off-campus. Contents include contributions by Kelley Howard Kohn Ellen Davis Tom Nixon Jeff Shero John Gerassi and others. unknown books
196949433Ann Arbor: Ann Arbor Argus 1969. First Edition. Tabloid 39.25cm; photo-illustrated newsprint wrappers; 24pp; illus. Mild wear and toning to extremities with pinpoint wear at center of spine-fold; Near Fine unfolded and without postal markings. Early issue of this short-lived bi-weekly counterculture paper out of Ann Arbor which had close ties to the White Panther Party and SDS. The paper was published by Ken Kelley a University of Michigan student who lived at the Trans-Love Energies commune off-campus. Contents include contributions by Ed Sanders Marc Stickgold Alison Weir Art Johnson Neal Bush Robert Hovey and others with a lengthy centerold interview with Frank Zappa. Ann Arbor Argus unknown books
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
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
1897604231897. Michigan. Fuller William D. Compiler. Practice Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan in 1896 in Which Written Opinions Were not Filed. Grand Rapids: William D. Fuller 1897. Reprint. Buffalo NY: Dennis & Co. 1947. ii 124 pp. Original tan cloth with red and black gilt spine lettering pieces. Light shelfwear. Ex-library. Stamps on top edge and bar code label on inside front cover internally fine. $65. unknown 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
