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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SIMON GIRTY, The White Savage.
NY: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928. 252p, cloth, illustrated, pictorial paper label on cover, spotting on cover, front inner hinge beginning, flap of dust jacket attached to front pastedown, good. 1st edition. Biography focusing on Girty during the period between Lord Dunmore's War and the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
THE WILMINGTON DIRECTORY. Containing the Names of the Citizens, A Business Directory, State and City Record and an Appendix of Much Useful Information. 1857.
Wilmington, Del. Joshua T. heald, Bookseller and Stationer, 1857. Boyd, William H., comp. THE WILMINGTON DIRECTORY. Containing the Names of the Citizens, A Business Directory, State and City Record, and an Appendix of Much Useful Information. 1857. Wilmington, DE: Joshua T. Heald, Bookseller and Stationer, 1857. 192 p, cloth, illustrated.....
A CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF AKRON, 1825-1925.
Akron, OH: Summit County Historical Society, 1925. 666p, 1/2 leather, illustrated, light wear to edges, very good. First edition. Inscribed by Edward Helm, business manager of the Centennial Celebration, to Gus Kasch, politician and one of the developers of Highland Square. Laid in is a typed letter of appreciation to.....
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.....
ROSECRANS' CAMPAIGN WITH THE FOURTEENTH ARMY CORPS, OR THE ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND:. A Narrative of Personal Observations with an Appendix, Consisting of Official Reports of the Battle of Stone River.
Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1863. 465p, cloth, frontis map, pencil notations on a few pages, spine faded, foxing, good. First edition. Presented by former owner to Military Order of the Loyal Legion, State of Illinois- bookplate and small label on spine. "Personal and pointed observations by a correspondent.....
A TROOPER WITH CUSTER, And Other Historic Incidents of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Columbus, Ohio: Hunter-Trader-Trapper Co., 1925. 214p, illustrated, covers soiled, good. First edition. Vol. I of "The Frontier Series." An expanded version was published in Harrisburg, Pa. in 1952. Contains William C. Slaper's account of the Battle of Big Horn. Brininstool contributed several articles about Custer and the Battle.
A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
1876. Bryant, William Cullen and Sydney Howard Gay. A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. NY: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1876. 4 Volumes, 10" X 7", decorated cloth, illustrated, bookplate, s set.
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.
EUCLID BEACH PARK IS CLOSED FOR THE SEASON.
Cleveland: Amusement Park Books, 1977. (AMUSEMENT PARK) Bush, Lee, et.al. EUCLID BEACH PARK IS CLOSED FOR THE SEASON. Cleveland: Amusement Park Books, (1977). 331p, 11"x 8 1/2", decorated cloth, many illustrations (a few in color, a few fold-out), vg in slightly soiled dj with a few small edge tears. 2nd.....
PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, 1796 TO 1860.
1963. Butler, Margaret Manor. A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, 1796 to 1860. Cleveland: Early Settlers Association, Western Reserve Historical Society, (1963.) 155p, 11 1/4" x 8 3/4", cloth, many illustrations, vg in dust jacket with a few small edge tears. Third printing.
RIVER ROUGE, Ford's Industrial Colossus.
St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks International, (2004). 192p, 10 1/2" x 12" (oblong), cloth, illustrated with photographs (some in color), vg+ in dj. 1st edition. Index.
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.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE, 1800-1900.
Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1971. 260p, 12" x 9 1'8", cloth, many black and white illustrations, dust jacket, very good. 1st edition. Glossary, bibliography.
THE HUDSON.
1939. Carmer, Carl. THE HUDSON. Illustrated by Stow Wengenroth. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1939). 434p., cloth, illus (incl. map), name on (p.iii), very good in dj with edge tears. 1st edition. "Rivers of America" series. History and geography of the Hudson River in New York. This edition contains an.....
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 OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Written for Children.
1860. Cecil, E. LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Written for Children. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1860. 258p, gilt decorated cloth, illus. (5 colored plates,) name on free endpaper, wear to spine ends and corners, good. Written to give children some knowledge of Washington's character.
THINGS AS THEY ARE IN AMERICA.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854. 364p, cloth, wear to edges, outer hinges beginning, ownership stamp on endpaper, pencil notes in text, good. First American edition. Howes, USiana C275. Chambers traveled extensively in the eastern United States and Canada in 1853.
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.".....
TRAVELS IN THE NEW SOUTH: A Bibliography.
1962. Clark, Thomas D., ed. TRAVELS IN THE NEW SOUTH: A Bibliography. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1962). 2 vols. (267 & 301p.), cloth, dust jackets, illus, jackets lightly worn, very good. Vol. I, "The Postwar South, 1865-1900: The Era of Reconstruction and Readjustment." Vol. II, "The Twentieth-Century South, 1900-1955.....
SPEECH OF MR. CLAY, OF KENTUCKY, Establishing a Deliberate Design on.
Clay, Henry. SPEECH OF MR. CLAY, OF KENTUCKY, Establishing a Deliberate Design on the Part of the Late and Present Executive of the United States, to Break Down the Whole Banking System of the United States... Washington: Office of the National Register, 1838. 16p., self-wrappers, wear to edges, foxed, good.....
HINCKLEY TOWNSHIP 1825-1975.
1975. Cobb, Jane & Elaine Vanderschrier. HINCKLEY TOWNSHIP 1825-1975. Hinckley Township, OH: Sesquicentennial Book Committee, 1975. 43p, 11" X 8 1/2", pictorial softcover, illus., covers lightly worn, g-vg.
MONUMENT TO AND HISTORY OF THE MINGO INDIANS. Facts and Traditions About This Tribe, Their Wars, Chiefs, Camps, Villages and Trails. Monument Dedicated to their Memory Near the Village of Mingo, in Tygarts River Valley of West Virginia.
No Place: William H. Cobb, (1921). 82p, cloth, light damp stains on cover, paper browning, good. First edition.
NEW YORK. Being an Introduction to an Unpublished Manuscript.
1930. Cooper, James Fenimore. NEW YORK. Being an Introduction to an Unpublished Manuscript... NY: William Farquhar Payson, 1930. 63p, 1/4 cloth, frontis, fine in g-vg slipcase. #547 of 765 copies. An attractive book.
TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE JOINTS;. Being the Observations for Which the Prize for 1806 was Adjudged by the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
Hanover, NH: Justin Hinds, 1811. 165p, contemporary full leather, front hinge neatly repaired with Japanese tissue, names on endpapers and title page, lacks last three pages (copies laid in), good. Second US edition. American Bibliography 1811, no. 22618. Cooper (1780-1848) was a noted London surgeon and author of the once.....