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Hardcover. Columbia, Missouri, Univ of Missouri Pr, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Columbia, MI, University of Missouri Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Argosy-Antiquarian, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ltd to 750 w/ new material edited by Abraham Nasatir, 1st pub in 1911 by the Missouri Historical Society, b&w Illustrations 207 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with only minor wear to boards. Decorative staining to top edge. Previous owner's signature on end paper (in pencil).

Hardcover. Norwich, Conn., Henry Bill Publishing, reprint, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 715 pages, with over 350 engravings and maps, gilt decorated cover and spine on green cloth, all edges marbled. Minor corner and edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Previous owner's stamp in front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co, 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 78 pages. Hardcover with heavily chipped dust jacket. Cover board edges are chipped, and worn. Tight copy. Illustrations by Kurt Weise. Spine has top and bottom chunks missing.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Exhibition catalog for a show organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo. Concentrates on Bingham?'s images inspired by the waterborne traffic on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers? in his lifetime, the great highways of the American frontier?and the men who worked on the river's? flatboats and rafts. 11-14" x 10-3/4", 199 numbered pages. A detailed academic analysis of Bingham's work, with numerous color plates and photos of his drawings.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 193 pages including index, illustrated with 34 reproductions, some in color. George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) who painted his world as it really was, everyday people in their everyday lives. His family was one of the early pioneer settlers, moving to the frontier in 1819. George began is art career painting tavern signs, later graduating to portraits, views of everyday life and "river paintings". He also was a Missouri politician, holding several important offices. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 256 pages, Index. Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Copiously illustrated with watercolors by Karl Bodmer. Map on endpapers. The Firsthand Account of Prince Maximilian's Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1833-34. Wonderful color plates by Swiss-born Bodmer accompany extracts from Maximilian's text, enhanced by historical background from Thomas and Ronnefeldt. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Neale Publishing Co., 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 324 pages, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. An account of a Civil War battle fought in Missouri. Tight, clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik. With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for. Like new.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Between 1908 and 1917, the American photographer and sociologist Lewis Hine (1874-1940) took some of the most memorable pictures of child workers ever made. Traveling around the United States while working for the National Child Labor Committee, he photographed children in textile mills, coal mines, and factories from Vermont and Massachusetts to Georgia, Tennessee, and Missouri. Using his camera as a tool of social activism, Hine had a major influence on the development of documentary photography. But many of his pictures transcend their original purpose. Concentrating on these photographs, Alexander Nemerov reveals the special eeriness of Hine's beautiful and disturbing work as never before. Richly illustrated, the book also includes arresting contemporary photographs by Jason Francisco of the places Hine documented. Clean copy.

Hardcover. University of Nebraska Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 512 pages. Historians, biographers, and scholars of John James Audubon and natural history have long been mystified by Audubon's 1843 Missouri River expedition, for his journals of the trip were thought to have been destroyed by his granddaughter Maria Rebecca Audubon. Daniel Patterson is the first scholar to locate and assemble three important fragments of the 1843 Missouri River journals, and here he offers a stunning transcription and critical edition of Audubon's last journey through the American West. Patterson's new edition of the journals--unknown to Audubon scholars and fans--offers a significantly different understanding of the very core of Audubon's life and work. Readers will be introduced to a more authentic Audubon, one who was concerned about the disappearance of America's wild animal species and yet also loved to hunt and display his prowess in the wilderness. This edition reveals that Audubon's famous late conversion to conservationism on this expedition was, in fact, a literary fiction. Maria Rebecca Audubon created this myth when she rewrote her grandfather's journals for publication to make him into a visionary conservationist. In reality the journals detail almost gratuitous hunting predations throughout the course of Audubon's last expedition.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1988, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Stated First Edition. The critically acclaimed first novel from Jonathan Franzen. St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police chief: a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, named S. Jammu. No sooner has Jammu been installed, though, than the city's leading citizens become embroiled in an all-pervasive political conspiracy. A classic of contemporary fiction, The Twenty-Seventh City shows us an ordinary metropolis turned inside out, the American Dream unraveling into terror and dark comedy.

Hardcover. Columbia MO, University of Missouri Press , 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, Illustrated in color and b&w. Bright, clean copy. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. Includes footnotes, list of illustrations, notes on illustrations, and index. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 644 pages, b&w illustrations. After a protracted squabble over private papers with the playwright's estate, Leverich delivers this hefty first volume of a projected two-volume life of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983). In it, Leverich, who produced several of Williams's plays and calls himself Williams's "chosen biographer", covers the years through 1945, when The Glass Menagerie opened on Broadway. Treated are Williams's youth in Mississippi and St. Louis; the college years at the universities of Missouri and Iowa; bumming around (but always writing) in New Orleans and Greenwich Village; the disaster of his first Broadway play (it closed in Boston); script writing, or avoiding it, at MGM's Hollywood mill; and, finally, the evolution of Menagerie, a wonderfully detailed and dramatic case history in itself. Leverich's overworked conceit, which he restates at intervals, is that this is the life of Tom Williams, a "repressed puritan" poet, who in time created a more flamboyant public persona called Tennessee. A few matters are set straight. Leverich maintains his subject's active homosexual life started in his late 20s, later than Williams stated in his memoirs, and that his sister's infamous lobotomy came later than his mother claimed. Although the accumulation of information is impressive, the lower Leverich keeps his own profile and editorial commentary the better his book is, which means it is at its best when it simply reproduces Williams's sporadically kept journal. If you believe that all the details of a life are but preparation for a single event, in this case, the opening of a remarkable play, this is an impressively argued biography.

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Pacific Lines, Book: Good, Softcover, 20-page brochure promoting the Missouri Pacific routes through Mexico. Two-color cover wraps, b&w illustrations and a map. Light wear, spine separating at bottom, clean. No date, appears to be late 1940s. 6 3/4 X 9 1/2".

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth stamped in brown. Sperry's 1936 novel offers a different take on the "settlers going West" story by presenting it through the eyes of 15-year-old Jonathan Starbuck, who leaves Missouri with a wagon train heading to the west. 276 pages. llustrated by the author with b&w line drawings, and with endpapers in color. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. This illustrated biography describes a trip taken by William de la M. Cary and two companions by steamboat on the Missouri River. 242 pages, b&w illustrations, 16 pages of color plates. SIGNED BY LADNER on the half-title page. Book tightly bound and in near fine condition. Dust jacket shows some rubbing and fading in areas.

Hardcover. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 242 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket Clean, tight copy.