Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Sarah Gillespie Huftalen led an unconventional life for a rural midwestern woman of her time. Born in 1865 near Manchester, Iowa, she was a farm girl who became a highly regarded country school and college teacher; she married a man older than either of her parents, received a college degree later in life, and was committed to both family and career. A gifted writer, she crafted essays, teacher-training guides, and poetry while continuing to write lengthy, introspective entries in her diary, which spans the years from 1873 to 1952. In addition, she gathered extensive information about the quietly tragic life of her mother, Emily, and worked to preserve Emily's own detailed diary. Taken together, Emily's and Sarah's extraordinary diaries span nearly a century and thus form a unique mother/daughter chronicle of daily work and thoughts, interactions with neighbors and friends and colleagues, and the destructive family dynamics that dominated the Gillespies. Sarah's consciousness of the abusive relationship between her mother and father haunts her diary, and this dramatic relationship is duplicated in Sarah's relationship with her brother, Henry, Suzanne Bunkers' skillful editing and analysis of Sarah's diary reveal the legacy of a caring, loving mother reflected in her daughter's work as family member, teacher, and citizen. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. 100 color photographs.

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. 100 color photographs.

Softcover. Cincinnati Historical Society, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, magazine format, 64 pages with b&w photos. Like new.

Hardcover. Honesdale, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. Light marking to several pages in margins, otherwise clean. In Blue Chicago, David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences. Drawing on countless nights in dozens of blues clubs throughout Chicago, Grazian shows how this quest for authenticity has transformed the very shape of the blues experience. He explores the ways in which professional and amateur musicians, club owners, and city boosters define authenticity and dish it out to tourists and bar regulars. He also tracks the changing relations between race and the blues over the past several decades, including the increased frustrations of black musicians forced to slog through the same set of overplayed blues standards for mainly white audiences night after night. In the end, Grazian finds that authenticity lies in the eye of the beholder: a nocturnal fantasy to some, an essential way of life to others, and a frustrating burden to the rest.

Hardcover. Charlevoix MI, Charles Francis Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 56 pages, b&w line drawings. History of a private resort area in Michigan. Bottom corner bumped otherwise clean, editor's business card laid in.

Hardcover. Chicago, Chicago Historical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with silver lettering and design. A comprehensive look at the history of objects made of metal from Chicago between 1844 to 1970. Includes numerous black and white illustrations by Walter W. Krutz. 141 pages. SIGNED BOOKMARK by author laid in. Clean copy. No dust jacket issued.

Softcover. Corte Medera CA, Gingko Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, nicely reproduced b&w historical photographs of the city. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 293 pages plus index. Illustrated with b&w photos. Dust jacket with fading, mild chipping. Clean copy.

Softcover. Lake Forest IL, Shore Line Interurban Historical Society, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 11" x 8.5"; 83 pages in b&w and color. Fold-out maps in center.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press,, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Includes bibliographical references, index, notes, and numerous black and white and color illustrations and maps. Bright dust jacket. light foxing to text block fore-edge.

Softcover. London, Bemrose & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover with heavy wear to paper wrappers. Maps and black and white pictures. Previous owner's markings on rear and throughout. Spine paper removed.

Softcover. Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Merrell, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Wright Morris was the poet laureate of Middle America. An icon of the 1940s, he died in 1998. Honored many times for his literary work, Morris twice received the prestigious American Book Award for The Field of Vision (1957) and Plains Song (1981), and pioneered the "photo-text." But Morris also created memorable images capturing the soul and mystique of the Midwest.Morris's images are the expression of his life-long quest to discover a vernacular and imagined America. His images brilliantly subvert such "cliched" motifs as grain elevators, Model T Fords, a farmer's cutlery set, or dusty badlands. Here, for the first time, the full emotional impact of his extraordinarily beautiful photographs-as forceful as his more celebrated writing-has been given free reign.

Softcover. self-published, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 150 pages. A collection of random newspaper snippets from the early newspapers in the Sandusky, Ohio area. Not in chronological order, they range from the mid-1800s to late 1920s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Schenkman Publishing Company, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, black cloth with white lettering on spine. 247 pages, b&w photographic illustrations, color folding map tipped-in at front pastedown, rear pictorial endpaper. This on-the-ground study of one square mile in Detroit was written in collaboration with neighborhood residents, many of whom were involved with the famous Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. This work, at its core, is dedicated to understanding global phenomena through the intensive study of a small, local place. Beginning with an 1816 encounter between the Ojibwa population and the neighborhood's first surveyor, William Bunge examines the racialized imposition of local landscapes over the course of European American settlement. By 1967 the neighborhood was mostly African American; Black Power was ascendant; and Detroit would experience a major riot. Immersed in the daily life of the area, Bunge encouraged residents to tell their stories and to think about local politics in spatial terms. His desire to undertake a different sort of geography led him to create a work that was nothing like a typical work of social science. The jumble of text, maps, and images makes it a particularly urgent book and a major theoretical contribution to urban geography that is also a startling evocation of street-level Detroit during a turbulent era. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. Madison WI, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 1st, 2014-03-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 119 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Carl Corey turns his camera on Wisconsin family-owned businesses in existence fifty years or longer. The businesses portrayed here--bakeries and barbecue joints, funeral homes and furniture builders, cheesemakers, fishermen, ferry boat drivers--have survived against all the odds, weathering tough economic times and big-business competition. The owners are loyal to their employees, their families, and themselves. And they are integral to their local economies and social fabric.

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Perfect binding is tight. Interior is clean. Recreates, in words and pictures, the visual and emotional impact of the 1904 World's Fair. Using over two hundred images from the Missouri Historical Society's Photographs and Prints Collection, many reproduced from rare glass-plate negatives, From the Palaces to the Pike offers a tour of the St. Louis World's Fair that has been unavailable for nearly a century. Following an introduction that explains how the park was transformed into the World's Fair, the book takes readers inside the big exhibit palaces, brings them face-to-face with "human exhibits," and transports them over the fair grounds in hard-to-find aerial views. Special chapters also provide views of the Fair's entertainment district, known as the Pike, and of the 1904 Olympic Games. After the Fair, "the palaces crumbled, the exhibits dispersed, the Pike gave way to the mansions on Lindell Boulevard, and the fantasy land was reconfigured back into Forest Park," Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Ames IA, Iowa State University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. A very clean hardcover edition in dust jacket and INSCRIBED BY HARNACK on the title page. The book 'focuses on the formation in the 1880s of a colony of upper-class British immigrants who viewed Iowa pioneering as a way of perpetuating the Victorian gentleman's code. It covers a broad range of social history of the latter part of the 19th century, from London drawing rooms to Iowa pig farms, and includes a careful scrutiny of Walter and James Cowan, brothers who were typical of Victorian gentlemen in this special venture'.

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages, 70 color plates by Fitch of deserted buildings and locations in the Great Plains. Soft cover edition, published simultaneously with the hardcover. In publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.H.C. Whiting, 1st, 1857, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Hardcover with stamping, heavy wear on edges. spine torn on bottom and top with missing fabric. Heavy pencil markings on end papers and fly leaves and some internal pages by previous owner. Heavy foxing throughout. Gutter cracked on page 217. Moderate soiling for age.

Softcover. St. Louis MO, Missouri Historical Society Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 156 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. The history, description, and the writings of four very different Fair visitors, each of whom had made multiple visits to the Fair. Their diaries, memoirs, and letters reveal the wealth of sensation and emotion that overwhelmed visitors to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece portrait of Black Hawk from a portrait painted by Robert M. Sully at Fort Monroe in 1833. This book was originally published in 1833 (dictated by Chief Black Hawk to his translator, Antoine Leclair) and was an immediate best seller. A no holds barred and unflinching narrative of the great Sauk leader. It includes an account of the cause and general history of the Black Hawk War. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 131 pages, b&w illustrations. "Looking at History" examines the history from geologic times to the present of a nine-county region - Perry, Jackson, Orange, Crawford, Dubois, Lawrence, Monroe, Martin, and Brown. It is an area rich in cultural heritage - prehistoric Indians, pioneer settlers, rural family life, folklore. The authors concentrate on the land and the natural culture of the inhabitants to produce a unique portrait of a distinctive area of the state. Included are 105 photographs, drawings, and maps. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Maryville MO, Maryville Tribune, 1s6t, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated but about 100 pages."A Photographic Reproduction of Public Buildings, Prominent People, Picturesque Scenes, Pretty Homes". A souvenir booklet published by the local paper. Nice condition, Clean.

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. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. B&w vintage photos throughout. The Midwest's one-room schools were, Fuller observes, the most democratic in the nation. Located in small, independent school districts, these schools virtually wiped out illiteracy, promoted democratic values, and opened up new vistas beyond the borders of their students' lives.Entire communities, Fuller shows, revolved around these schools. At various times they were used as churches, polling places, sites of political caucuses, and meeting halls for local organizations. But as America urbanized and the movement to consolidate took hold in rural counties, these little centers of learning were left at the margins of the educational system. Some were torn down, some left to weather away, some sold at auction, and still others transformed into museums.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Indiana Historical Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover 96 pages. Otto Ping began taking pictures of the people and places of his native Brown County, Indiana, in 1900 at the age of seventeen in order to make some extra money. He continued doing so for forty years while he worked at such other endeavors as peddling, farming, canning, and chicken raising. Unlike the painters and photographers who came to the county in these years to capture quaint and rustic scenes for sophisticated audiences elsewhere, Ping made his pictures for the people who were in them. Primarily a portraitist, Ping photographed individuals, couples, family groups, and larger gatherings. He had no studio and carried with him no lights or props. His portraits are characterized by hastily thrown up backdrops, stark lighting, and rigid poses. They have a documentary quality, and one senses in the faces that peer from these images the determination with which these people met lives of toil and hardship. Many of the portraits betray a sense of melancholy. Life was tenuous for both young and old, and the photographer often worked against time to provide a family with images of the living before his efforts became memorial. Ping photographed people at work and play. Images abound of stiffly posed groups in front of sawmills, churches, schools, and lodge halls; families in front of cabins or newly framed houses; couples with buggies; and children at play. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, Geranium Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 186 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. This volume contains Morris Birkbeck's "Observations of an English Immigrant in 1817," William Newnham Blake's "A Tour in Southern Illinois in 1822" and Henry R. Schoolcraft's "A Journey Up the Illinois River in 1821." includes an index and a 23 page historical introduction by the renowned historian Dr. Milo Milton Quaife. There is a tissue guarded captioned frontispiece entitled "Moris Birkbeck" by courtesy of H. W. Fay of DeKalb. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Wichita KS, Kansas Aviation Museum , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 127 pages with many b&w historical photos. Susan Thompson's clearly written, well-illustrated history of what was one of the nation's premier airports in the pre-jet age is a great read for serious and casual aviation fan and anybody with a general interest in aviation history. Wichita's Municipal Airport was the primary stop-off point for coast to coast air travel in the days that preceded long-distance flight. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. The frontispiece is a portrayal of Chicago in 1853 with a tissue guard. Includes: Introduction; William Bross - extracted from "What I remember of early Chicago", a lecture delivered Jan. 23, 1876; Charles Cleaver - extracts from articles which appeared first in the Chicago tribune; Joseph Jefferson, Chicagoan - reprinted from "The autobiography of Joseph Jefferson"; and Chicago's first railroad systems - reprinted from Andraes's "History of Chicago." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 140 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. In this volume there have been gathered the personal experiences of some ten individuals who passed through the great Chicago Fire of 1871. The total area burned over was 2,124 acres, the number of buildings destroyed was about 17,450 and the persons rendered homeless nearly 100,000; out of a population of about 300,000. This work has two large fold-outs the first of which is opposite the title page and is entitled: "Chicago After the Great Fire of 1871". It is in two pieces with the last section separated along fold, minor tape repair. The second fold out (after page 36) is a map showing the course of the Chicago Fire of 1871 and is in excellent condition. No markings.

Softcover. Gwinn MI, Avery Color Studios, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 201 pages, b&w illustrations. The Reverend Law was in peril on the Great Lakes and was rescued by a U.S. Life-Saving Service Station crew. As a result of that rescue, seeing their heroic efforts first hand, Reverend Law dedicated the rest of his life to the men and women stationed at Light and Life-Saving stations throughout the United States. Whether it was bringing his "Floating Library" to stations located on the Great Lakes, regular correspondence with the crews of stations far too remote for a personal visit, or his relentless pursuit of Congress to approve a bill to provide better pay and pensions, Reverend Law became a fast friend to those serving in the Lighthouse and Life-Saving services. "Sky Pilot" was sailors' slang for a chaplain. To the men and women he served, Reverend Law was lovingly known as "The Sky Pilot of the Great Lakes." A true tale of unconquerable optimism,

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2nd pr., 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 233 pages, b&w illustrations. From the minute it opened--on Christmas Day in 1865--it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the Union Stock Yard. There they got a firsthand look at the city's industrial prowess as they witnessed cattle, hogs, and sheep disassembled with breathtaking efficiency. At their height, the kill floors employed 50,000 workers and processed six hundred animals an hour, an astonishing spectacle of industrialized death. Slaughterhouse tells the story of the Union Stock Yard, chronicling the rise and fall of an industrial district that, for better or worse, served as the public face of Chicago for decades. Dominic A. Pacyga is a guide like no other--he grew up in the shadow of the stockyards, spent summers in their hog house and cattle yards, and maintains a long-standing connection with the working-class neighborhoods around them. Pacyga takes readers through the packinghouses as only an insider can, covering the rough and toxic life inside the plants and their lasting effects on the world outside. He shows how the yards shaped the surrounding neighborhoods and controlled the livelihoods of thousands of families. He looks at the Union Stock Yard's political and economic power and its sometimes volatile role in the city's race and labor relations. And he traces its decades of mechanized innovations, which introduced millions of consumers across the country to an industrialized food system. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 467 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR - ("SPECIAL AUTOGRAPHED EDITION"). Previous owners notes and related clippings adhered to inside front cover and front endpaper. Illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens. Covers show light wear, with some rubbing to cloth at top and bottom of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 182 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. This volume contains an introduction by Caroline McIlvaine. B&w frontis portrait of the author with a tissue guard. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 385 pages. While browsing the stacks of the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago some years ago, noted historian Neil Harris made a surprising discovery: a group of nine plainly bound volumes whose unassuming spines bore the name the Chicagoan. Pulling one down and leafing through its pages, Harris was startled to find it brimming with striking covers, fanciful art, witty cartoons, profiles of local personalities, and a whole range of incisive articles. He quickly realized that he had stumbled upon a Chicago counterpart to the New Yorker that mysteriously had slipped through the cracks of history and memory. Here Harris brings this lost magazine of the Jazz Age back to life. In its own words, the Chicagoan claimed to represent "a cultural, civilized, and vibrant" city "which needs make no obeisance to Park Avenue, Mayfair, or the Champs Elysees." Urbane in aspiration and first published just sixteen months after the 1925 appearance of the New Yorker, it sought passionately to redeem the Windy City's unhappy reputation for organized crime, political mayhem, and industrial squalor by demonstrating the presence of style and sophistication in the Midwest. Harris's substantial introductory essay here sets the stage, exploring the ambitions, tastes, and prejudices of Chicagoans during the 1920s and 30s. The author then lets the Chicagoan speak for itself in lavish full-color segments that reproduce its many elements: from covers, cartoons, and editorials to reviews, features--and even one issue reprinted in its entirety.

Center for American Places, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 180 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Foreword by Bill Kurtis. Contemporary Photographs by Judith Bromley and James Iska. Historic images from the Chicago Park District's Special Collections. Even Chicagoans who routinely enjoy its diverse open spaces -from the magnificent lakeshore parks to intimate neighborhood settings- may be surprised about their parkland legacy. The City in a Garden, developed in association with the Chicago Park District, is the first official history of Chicago's parks and it reveals why they are second to none in America and abroad. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 151 pages illustrated in b&w. Iowa Central Railway supporters fought for a north-south route across the state that would link Minneapolis and St. Paul and St. Louis. This is the history from station records, reports, newspaper articles, and interviews of "The Hook & Eye", which brought both the industrial and human sides of railroading into sharp and memorable view. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 4th pr., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 350 pages. A history of the Little Traverse Bay on the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula. Text is illustrated with drawings and contains memoirs, memories, recollections, etc.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 291 pages illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave II.

Softcover. Indiana Historical Society, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 358 pages, 2 maps, b/w photos, appendices, notes, important dates, bibliography, index. Explores the history and culture of the Miami Indians, who have fought for many years to gain tribal status from the U.S. government. Clean copy.

Softcover. Iowa City IA, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, monthly magazine, stapled color wraps, 86 pages with b&w illustrations. Entire issue devoted to "Railroads Come to Iowa" by William Petersen. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Isaiah Thomas & Company, 1st, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Hardcover leather binding. Moderate shelf wear, Front hinge starting to separate. Pages heavily foxed and tanned. Previous owner's name and markings throughout.

Softcover. Minnesota Historical Society, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 309 pages. A collection of b&w seasonal photos from Minnesota's past with excerpts from letters and journals from each season. The book is broken up into the four seasons of the year and the author wrote captions giving available information about each photo. A fun look into Minnesota's past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, State of Indiana, 1st, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with blind-stamp design, gilt title on spine. 432 pages interspersed with dozens of b&w detailed engravings of farm machinery from the period. Light foxing throughout.

Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia Publishing , 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages illustrated in b&w. In 1836 workers broke ground for the nearly 100-mile-long Illinois and Michigan Canal between the Illinois and Chicago Rivers. The opening of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the movement of industry away from Chicago caused manufacturers to turn their attention to Will. As the county's population grew, the unincorporated area between Joliet and Chicago's southern suburbs continued to shrink. The transportation ties linking Chicago with the communities of Will County--traces, paths, wagon roads, canals, rail lines, plank roads, and highways--helped create an expanding metropolitan region. The early history and unique growth of Will County is showcased in this book. Over 200 vintage postcards provide an interesting glimpse into the social, material, and cultural history of Will County in the early 20th century. Clean copy.