BOK! The 9.11 Crisis in Political Cartoons.
Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, (2002). 109p, cloth, illustrated with cartoons, fine in dj. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author.
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WISH YOU WERE HERE, A Tour of America's Great Hotels During the Golden Age of the Picture Post Card.
New York: Crown Publishers, (1990). 95p, 9" x 10" (oblong), boards, color illustrations, decorated endpapers, vg+ in dj. 1st edition. An album of hand-colored hotel picture post cards of the thirties, forties and fifties.
THE HERMITAGE-ZOAR NOTE-BOOK AND JOURNAL OF TRAVEL. And LETTERS.
New York: (William C. Whitney), 1902. Two volumes, full blue morocco, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontis portrait, some off-setting of inner dentelles onto endpapers, Hermitage is very good, Letters has wear to edges and weakening of front hinge, good. of Note-book, o/w very good. #485 of a limited edition.....
ONTARIO HYDRO NEWS, GOLDEN JUBILEE ISSUE.
Toronto: Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, (1956). 40p, 11" x 8 1/4", wraps, 1/2" split on spine, very good. Special Issue, 1906-1956.History and technological progress with many captioned illustrations.
WOMEN OF THE WAR;. Their Heroism and Self-Sacrifice.
Hartford, Conn: S. S. Scranton & Co., 1866. 596p, cloth, illustrated with steel engravings, some browning and foxing, wear to edges, former owner's inscription, good. Narratives by women such as Mrs. Fanny Ricketts, Mrs. Isabella Fogg, Miss Major Pauline Cushman and more.
AB-SA-RA-KA, HOME OF THE CROWS, Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1868. 284p, cloth, illustrated (incl. fold-out map), bookplate, some loosening and browning of paper, wear to spine ends, minor tear to map mended with tape, good. First edition. Howes. USiana C-175. Much on the Indians and U.S. Army in the West, especially Nebraska, Wyoming.....
LIFE AND TIMES OF GEN. SAM. DALE, THE MISSISSIPPI PARTISAN.
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1860. 233p, blind stamped cloth, rebacked with original spine laid on, original endpapers preserved, wear to edges, some loosening, former owner's signature on front endpaper, good. First edition. Illustrated with full page illustrations by John M'Lenan. "Personal adventures of Alabama's most notable Indian Fighter.".....
ENCHANTING ISLES OF ERIE.
No Place: Self Published, 1949. 80p, cloth, illustrated, wear to edges, very good. Large fold-out map of the Islands tipped in at rear. Historic sketches.
PIONEER POST CARDS, The Story of Mailing Cards to 1898 with an Illustrated Checklist of Publishers and Titles.
No Place, 1957. POSTCARDS, ANTIQUES, EPHEMERA, REFERENCE. 144p, boards, illustrated, 1/2" of bottom spine missing, good. Includes 1958, 55p supplement at rear.
THE WESTERN COUNTRY IN THE 17TH CENTURY, The Memoirs of Lamothe Cadillac and Pierre Liette.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1947. 181p, 6 1/4" x 4 1/4", top edge gilt, map, inscription, underlining, good. Memoirs of two French officers who lived with the Indians along the Mississippi from the Ohio River to North of Lake Superior.
WAR ON THE DETROIT, The Chronicles of Thomas Vercheres de Boucherville and The Capitulation by an Ohio Volunteer.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1940. 320p, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, frontis, 2 maps (1 fold-out), inscription on front endpaper, very good. Appendix, index. Lakeside Classic No. 38. Editing and introduction by Milo Milton Quaife. The first reprinting of Foster's rare.....
SIX YEARS WITH THE TEXAS RANGERS, 1875 to 1881.
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1947. 364p, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4", cloth, top edge gilt, frontis, fold-out map, inscription from Donnelley Sons on front endpaper, very good. Index. Lakeside Classic no. 41.
THE WAR IN KANSAS, A Rough Trip to the Border, Among New Homes and a Strange People.
New York: Derby & Jackson, 1856. 400p, blind stamped cloth, illustrated, some foxing especially the title page and end papers, good. First edition. (Sabin 7765). News that armed parties of partisans were preying on each other over the slavery issue led James Gordon Bennett's NEW YORK HERALD to hire Brewerton.....
GRAND TRUNK SYSTEM AND CONNECTIONS.
No place, no date. 1p, 8 1/2" x 25" accordian folding into 8 1/2" x 4 1/4", light browning of paper, vg.
AKRON, OHIO, CITY OF OPPORTUNITY.
Akron, OH: Grand Council of Ohio, United Commercial Travelers, 1914. No pagination (circa 100p), 6 3/4" x 9 3/4" oblong, decorated wraps bound with string, part of wraps missing at spine ends, good. Great illustrations, many full page. Some text, mainly illustrations of Akron's homes, businesses, public buildings, etc. Souvenir.....
VIEWS OF AKRON, OHIO, AND ENVIRONS.
Akron, OH: First Universalist Church, 1904. 64p, 6" x 9" oblong, wraps tied with ribbon, slight wear to wraps, very good. Many small illustrations of public buildings, businesses and factories, some interiors, etc. Includes two views of Akron, 1853 and 1904.
THE STANDARD GUIDE TO CHICAGO, ILLUSTRATED, WORLD'S FAIR EDITION, 1893.
Chicago: The Standard Guide Co., 1893. 584p, cloth, illustrated, some soiling, light wear to edges, good. Many local ads, some illustrated., good. Very detailed information focused on the city, not the Exhibition.
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