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"A Truthful Impression of the Country" British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949 (SIGNED COPY) by: Clifford, Nicholas
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"A Truthful Impression of the Country" British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949 (SIGNED COPY) by: Clifford, Nicholas"A Truthful Impression of the Country" British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949 (SIGNED COPY) by: Clifford, Nicholas

"A Truthful Impression of the Country" British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Clifford, Nicholas

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy with light edge wear to covers.

Record # 369315

Price: $70.00
Price: $70.00 

"Truthful Impression of the Country, A" British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949 by: Clifford, Nicholas R.
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"Truthful Impression of the Country, A" British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880-1949
by: Clifford, Nicholas R.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor , The University of Michigan Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 231 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. An erudite and authoritative guide of Chinese travel literature by American and British writers. Mild rubbing and slight fading to dust jacket. Unmarked and scarce; a tight copy.

Record # 952328

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Babar Comes to America (SIGNED COPY) by: de Brunhoff, Laurent
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Babar Comes to America (SIGNED COPY)
by: de Brunhoff, Laurent

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Very clean and tight copy. Babar, King of the Elephants, receives an invitation to meet with the President of the United States- the perfect excuse for a family vacation! None of the elephants have been to America before, so Babar packs up his family and sets off to see the sights. From the hustle and bustle of New York to the wide open spaces of the Grand Canyon, from riding streetcars in San Francisco to fishing on Lake Michigan, Babar and his family experience America in all its glory and splendor.

Record # 455360

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 
 

Babar Comes to America Babar (SIGNED COPY) by: Brunhoff, Laurent de
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Babar Comes to America Babar (SIGNED COPY)
by: Brunhoff, Laurent de

Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. Very clean and tight copy. Babar, King of the Elephants, receives an invitation to meet with the President of the United States- the perfect excuse for a family vacation! None of the elephants have been to America before, so Babar packs up his family and sets off to see the sights. From the hustle and bustle of New York to the wide open spaces of the Grand Canyon, from riding streetcars in San Francisco to fishing on Lake Michigan, Babar and his family experience America in all its glory and splendor.

Record # 455336

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 
 

Black Pioneers: An Untold Story by: William Loren Katz
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Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
by: William Loren Katz

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a clear, straightforward style, Katz describes the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys (covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) by African Americans seeking freedom, including biographical sketches of men and women who formed churches, started schools, or were politically active in their region. Some of these settlers were fugitive slaves; several set up stations on the Underground Railroad with the aid of the Quakers; others were farmers, poets, and soldiers. In several states, they helped form black regiments in the Civil War. Chronologically arranged, the book introduces many lesser-known personages not found in most collective biographies and places them in a broader context of U.S. history as a whole.

Record # 381607

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Black Pioneers: An Untold Story by: William Loren Katz
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Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
by: William Loren Katz

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In a clear, straightforward style, Katz describes the settlement of the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys (covering Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri) by African Americans seeking freedom, including biographical sketches of men and women who formed churches, started schools, or were politically active in their region. Some of these settlers were fugitive slaves; several set up stations on the Underground Railroad with the aid of the Quakers; others were farmers, poets, and soldiers. In several states, they helped form black regiments in the Civil War. Chronologically arranged, the book introduces many lesser-known personages not found in most collective biographies and places them in a broader context of U.S. history as a whole.

Record # 398481

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Cap Anson 1: When Captaining a Team Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years by: Rosenberg, Howard W.
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Cap Anson 1: When Captaining a Team Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years
by: Rosenberg, Howard W.

Hardcover. Michigan, Tile Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. First in a series of baseball books to piece together the vast newspaper record of the nineteenth century. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Slight cocking to spine. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy. While Anson's greatest success was in being the lone player before 1900 to reach 3,000 hits, Cap Anson 1: When Captaining Meant Something: Leadership in Baseball's Early Years, examines him through his managerial and captaining roles with Chicago's National League team (the White Stockings, later known better as the Colts, before they became the modern-day Cubs) from 1879 to 1897. The book also compares Anson to other captain-managers of his day, and Chicago to contemporaneous teams with divided management: those with a combination of captains and bench managers.

Record # 952053

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

City Legends by: Carleton, Will
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City Legends
by: Carleton, Will

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt embossed lettering on spine, gilt lettering and black design on front. No dust jacket. 19 mostly full-page engraved illustrations. Will Carleton, brought up in a log farmhouse in rural Michigan, was America's poet. Writing about ordinary Americans and everyday life, he enjoyed the same kind of success that Robert Burns had in Scotland. "Betsy and I Are Out," a poem about divorce, was picked up by a national newspaper and brought him widespread recognition, that was cemented by "Over The Hill To the Poorhouse," which brought attention to the shabby treatment provided to the country's old and poor. "City Legends" is Carleton's third collection of "city" related poetry and 17th collection overall. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 385413

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Collected Prose (Poets On Poetry) by: Wright, James
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Collected Prose (Poets On Poetry)
by: Wright, James

Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. Sunning to spine, else near fine in wrappers. Edited by Anne Wright. A volume in the "Poets on Poetry". Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 374465

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time by: Serres, Michel with Latour, Bruno
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Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time
by: Serres, Michel with Latour, Bruno

Softcover. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 204 pages. Translated by Roxanne Lapidus. Clean, bright copy. Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that inspire his highly original, challenging, and transdisciplinary essays. Clean copy.

Record # 386524

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands by: Guillet, David W.
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Covering Ground: Communal Water Management and the State in the Peruvian Highlands
by: Guillet, David W.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 250 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of the inhabitants of Lari, a village in the Colca Valley of the Andes, and their struggle with three forces in their endeavor to find and use water--the drive of individuals to accumulate resources and wealth, the interest of the predatory state, and gravity. Clean copy.

Record # 472351

Price: $35.00
Price: $35.00 

Detroit: Photo-Gravures by: N/A
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Detroit: Photo-Gravures by: N/ADetroit: Photo-Gravures by: N/A

Detroit: Photo-Gravures
by: N/A

Hardcover. New York, A. Wittemann, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in gilt. 29 plates with photos of Detroit landmarks in the late 1800s. Top half inch of spine cover gone, title page with a tan corner stain. Plates all clean. Front endpapers with previous owner's signature, address. Binding shaken, but holding.

Record # 412483

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

Dewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF) by: Mallon, Thomas
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Dewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF) by: Mallon, ThomasDewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF) by: Mallon, Thomas

Dewey Defeats Truman (SIGNED PROOF)
by: Mallon, Thomas

Paperback. New York, Pantheon, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 358 pages. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. SIGNED BY MALLON on title page. Tight copy. In 1948, the small town of Owosso, Michigan, is electrified by the presidential campaign of native favorite Thomas Dewey. Just as voters must decide between Dewey and Harry Truman, so must bookstore clerk Anne Macmurray choose between two suitors-the ardent United Auto Workers organizer and his polar opposite, the wealthy young Republican attorney with political ambitions.

Record # 106407

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Financial Expert, The - A Novel of Indian Life by: Narayan, R.K.
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Financial Expert, The - A Novel of Indian Life
by: Narayan, R.K.

Hardcover. East Lansing MI, Michigan State, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Introduction by Graham Greene. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped. Publisher's review slip laid in. Clean copy.

Record # 369878

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Hemingway in Michigan (including three Hemingway short stories previously unpublished) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR) by: Constance Cappel (Montgomery)
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Hemingway in Michigan (including three Hemingway short stories previously unpublished) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by: Constance Cappel (Montgomery)

Softcover. Waitsfield VT, Vermont Crossroads Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in hardcover in 1966. Harbor Springs in northern Michigan was where the Hemingway family vacationed from Chicago as early as 1900, when Ernest was age 1. Trips there followed during his youth and into his early years as a professional writer. The setting of Walloon Lake and the region and characters of Little Traverse Bay found their way into some of his stories. Includes three of Hemingway's short stories originally published in the Oak Park (Ill. ) High School Tabula, here reprinted for the first time. Mild wear, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 384635

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by: Ware, Chris
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
by: Ware, Chris

Softcover. New York, Pantheon Graphic Library, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light edgewear to cover wrapper. Color comics throughout by Chris Ware. Clean, tight copy. This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.

Record # 369121

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Last Words by: Antler
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Last Words
by: Antler

Softcover. NY, Available Press/Ballantine, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 191 pages. Last Words is the first major collection of poems by a Milwaukee poet born soon after World War II who reached maturity during the late 1960s. It contains his highly acclaimed epic "Factory,"described by Allen Ginsberg as "a definitely powerful epic by one of Whitman's 'poets and orators to come.'" Antler was born in Milwaukee and grew up in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. He "worked his way through college" in various factories. As John Muir left the University of Wisconsin at Madison for "the University of the Wilderness" in 1863, Antler left the Milwaukee campus for the same destination in 1973. Besides factories, he has explored wildernesses in Upper Peninsula Michigan, Minnesota, Ontario, Colorado, and California. Clean copy.

Record # 397636

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerem natura by: de Quehen, Hugh (Editor/Introduction)
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Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerem natura by: de Quehen, Hugh (Editor/Introduction)Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerem natura by: de Quehen, Hugh (Editor/Introduction)

Lucy Hutchinson's Translation of Lucretius: De rerem natura
by: de Quehen, Hugh (Editor/Introduction)

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Previous owner's name and information on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, some light fading to spine of dj, glossy, excellent. This difinitive edition incorporates a commentary on the translation as well as an invaluable introduction, which includes new information about Hutchinson's life and writings, and a discussion of the De rerem natura and its impact on the seventeenth century.

Record # 99068

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Michigan Roll by: Kakonis, Tom
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Michigan Roll
by: Kakonis, Tom

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's 1st book.

Record # 3220

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Michigan Roll by: Kakonis, Tom
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Michigan Roll
by: Kakonis, Tom

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Author's 1st book.

Record # 7598

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition, the or My Last Cruise: Where We Went and What We Saw by: Habersham, A.W.
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North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition, the or My Last Cruise: Where We Went and What We Saw by: Habersham, A.W.North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition, the or My Last Cruise: Where We Went and What We Saw by: Habersham, A.W.

North Pacific Surveying and Exploring Expedition, the or My Last Cruise: Where We Went and What We Saw
by: Habersham, A.W.

Hardcover. Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 507 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1857 J.B. Lippincott & Co. publication produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University's Library's preservation reformatting program. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean, spine straight, binding tight. ISBN label on back cover. Light foxing to edges. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. "Visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the Coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the Mouth of the Amoor River."

Record # 99043

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg (Under Discussion) by: Hyde, Lewis (editor)
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On the Poetry of Allen Ginsberg (Under Discussion)
by: Hyde, Lewis (editor)

Softcover. Ann Arbor MI, University of Michigan Press, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 462 pages. Illustrated in b&w. Includes bibliography. From rear cover: "From Kenneth Rexroth to the Czechoslovakian secret police, from Marianne Moore to the F.B.I., from Diana Trillling to Time magazine - Allen Ginsberg's work has always drawn a spirited response. Now, for the first time, these responses - remarks, reviews, and essays - have been collected in a single volume. Beginning with William Carlos Williams's early letters of support and ending with James Breslin's biographical analysis of 'The Origins of Howl and Kaddish', this collection reflects a full thirty years of praise, complaint, debate, and analysis of the work of one of the most innovative poets of our century". Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 372834

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Paula by: Vance, Marguerite
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Paula
by: Vance, Marguerite

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 223 pages, b&w illustrations with red accents by Valenti Angel, previous owner's inscription and book plate, tears and chipping to dust jacket. Mylar cover, clean, tight copy. Spine cocked. Charming story about a girl from an mill town on Lake Michigan around the turn of the last century.

Record # 371828

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren, The by: Lundgren, Carl
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Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren, The
by: Lundgren, Carl

Hardcover. PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Music inspired, science fiction and fantasy combined in a way that revolutionized poster art of the Psychedelic 1960's-era. Famous for his rock posters, The Psychedelic Rock Art of Carl Lundgren, a Detroit, Michigan based artist, showcases his posters which were as important to the Detroit Music and Art history as were the music legends themselves; The Who, Jefferson Airplane and Pink Floyd to name a few. The book's forward is written by Mitch Ryder, who was lead vocalist of a Detroit 1960's rock group The Detroit Wheels. The introduction is by Russ Gibb, a former radio personality and rock promoter from Dearborn, Michigan, who played a major role in the late sixties/early seventies Motor City music scene.

Record # 351107

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00