1955. STEAM, ITS GENERATION AND USE. New York: Babcock & Wilcox Co., (1955). No pagination (c400p), 11" X 8 1/2", gilt decorated cloth, illus., previous owner's name on endpaper, covers spotted, vg. 37th edition. Includes Appendix and Index.
1919. THINGS THAT INTEREST FIRESTONE SHAREHOLDERS, The circle of Firestone stockholders has been so enlarged recently that it seems to your Directors to be an appropriate time for a review of the present proportions of the Rubber Industry and of the Firestone position in the industry. Akron, OH: The Firestone.....
1957. TOWN 2 - RANGE 10, THE WESTERN RESERVE; TALLMADGE OHIO, 1807-1957. Tallmadge: (Tallmadge Historical Society, no date (1957). 136p + 8p devoted to sesquicentennial, 11"x 8 1/2", pictorial wraps, many illustrations, fold-out reprint of an old broadside, covers lightly soiled, vg. 1st edition. Published for Tallmadge's Sesqui-Centennial.
Akron, OH: Saalfield, 1942. Ethel Hays. No pagination (c14p), 13" x 10", color pictorial softcover, color illustrations by Ethel Hays, cover lightly soiled, good+.
Akron, OH: B. F. Goodrich Co., 1932. No pagination (28p), color pictorial wraps, color illustrations, some browning of paper, very good. Comic book focused on rubber.
Akron, Oh: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1948. No pagination (12p), self wraps, some wear, good. Merry-go-round pony.
1966. No pagination (12p), 11" x 8 1/2", wraps, illustrated by photos and a map, some fading and browning of paper, g-vg. Quine tries to locate and give known information about Akron's early schools.
(Cleveland:): (Cordray & Gross Co.), (1947). 159p, cloth, many photo illustrations, a few marks on cover, very good. First edition. Signed on endpapers and title page by five pilots. World War II production at the Akron plant. Includes two long chapters, "Building the Blimp Fleet" and "The Navy's Faster Fighter.....
Akron, OH: Superior Printing & Litho. Co., 1936. Allen, Hugh. THE HOUSE OF GOODYEAR. Akron, OH: Superior Printing & Litho. Co., 1936. 413p, cloth, many illustration, very good in slightly soiled dust jacket with a few small edge tears. Second edition, inscribed by author. Allen was editor of the Akron.....
1949. Allen, Hugh. THE HOUSE OF GOODYEAR. Akron, OH, 1949. 691 plus index and chronology, cloth, many illus., some wear, good. . Allen was editor of the Akron Beacon Journal until 1926 when he joined the public relations dept. of Goodyear.
Akron: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 1931. 71p, pictorial cloth, illustrated, cover soiled, good. 6th edition. A history of development of the airship. Allen was a journalist, editor of the Akron Beacon Journal (1920-26), a member of the public relations depart of the Goodrich Tire and Rubber Co. and the.....
Akron, Oh. Summit County Historical Society, 2000. 135p, 11"x 8 1/2", cloth, fine in dust jacket with very light edge wear. First edition. Published on occasion of Akron's 175th anniversary. A pictorial history of Akron drawn from the postcard collection of Ruth Clinefelter. Several pages of text, the rest lovely.....
Akron, OH: Summit County Historical Society, 2000. 135p, 11"x 8 1/2", paperback, light wear at spine, vg. Signed by the authors. Published on occasion of Akron's 175th anniversary. A pictorial history of Akron drawn from the postcard collection of Ruth Clinefelter. Several pages of text, the rest lovely color reproductions.....
1977. Bartlett, Robert M., Millard C. Beyer et al. HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN SUMMIT COUNTY, OHIO. PART II. No place, (circa 1977). 94p, cloth, some b & w photos, vg. Summit County medicine from 1946-1976.
1931. Beasley, Norman. MEN WORKING, A Story of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1931. 296p, cloth, frontis, some wear to edges, vg. 1st edition.
Akron, OH: Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society, 2010. 23p, wraps, frontis, fine. Akron collector of pulps, series juveniles and much more.
Akron, OH: T. & H.G. Canfield, Publishers, 1854. 157p, cloth, foxing, wear to edges, good. First edition. (USIANA B-434.) First separate history of Summit County. Compiled by Bierce from conversations with many of the pioneer participants. Many anecdotes of pioneer life with an odd assortment of characters.
Columbus, Oh: Ohio State University Press, 1996. 507p, cloth, illustrated, dust jacket, fine. History of Goodrich from the beginning in 1870. written by two professors of history at OSU, it covers rubber and plastic production to chemical and aerospace products and services. Appendix, notes, index.
Chicago: Central Electric Railfans' Association, (1966). 11" x 8 1/2", 268p, boards, illustrated by photos, charts and diagrams, very good in dust jacket taped on verso.. 1st edition, signed by Blower. The most comprehensive coverage of the interurban transit lines in and around Akron.
Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, (2002). 109p, cloth, illustrated with cartoons, fine in dj. 1st edition. Inscribed by the author.
Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing Co., (1936). 245p, pictorial cloth, frontispiece, dust jacket with some tape and small edge tears, paper browned, good. Two boys travels to the Ohio River Valley. Braden lived in Akron at one time.
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.....
1838. (SUMMIT CO) Commins, J.D., Wheeler, S.A. and Chamberlin, P. THE AKRON POST-OFFICE. No place, no date (1960's?) 16p, wraps, vg. Reprint of a pamphlet originally published in 1838. In the 1830's, the town of Akron, though hardly more than a village, consisted of north and south ends, separated by.....
1994. (SUMMIT CO-LIBRARY) Dietz, Margaret Neumann. AKRON'S LIBRARY, COMMEMORATING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS ON MAIN STREET. Akron, Oh: Akron-Summit Cty. Public Library, 1994. 140p, 11"x 8 1/4", pictorial boards, illustrated, fine.
Akron, OH: University of Akron Press, 2010. 162p, cloth, illustrated (including map), dust jacket, very good. First edition, inscribed by author on title page.Excellent memoir about the author's attempt (with her uncle) to recover memories and history of her earliest years. Goosetown was the German neighborhood in South Akron near.....