Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, [1973]. 4to. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 207pp. Color frontispiece, numerous illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine. First edition of this chronicle of the places and people of this region, tight and handsome. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from..... More
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Edited by Herbert K. Russell. Oblong 4to. Burgundy cloth, pictorial dust jacket. xxi, 107pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. Second printing, a tight, handsome copy. More
Iowa City: Clio Press, 1935. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff grey wrappers. 59pp. Very good. Internally tight and fine, with outer wrappers (only) a tad edgeworn. Handsome first edition of the last book by this noted Iowa academic, poet and folk music scholar (1871-1939). "Number Three" in series editor Frank Luther Mott's..... More
New York: Platt & Munk Co., Inc., [1943]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lucille W. Holling and H.C. Holling. 4to. Orange cloth with large front board color plate. (Ca. 100pp). Color frontispiece, 4 full-page color plates, numerous smaller illustrations. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn (mainly at spine head/tail) and rear board faintly..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., [1933]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Eulalie. 4to. Blue cloth with large color plate on front board. (Ca. 100pp). Color frontispiece, extensive line drawings (many color), full-page color plates. Good only. A tight, decent, serviceable example, although binding is edgeworn, scuffed and soiled; the lower..... More
New York: The Platt & Munk Co., [1930]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Lois Lenski. 8vo. Red cloth with blue lettering and pictorial stamping. (24pp). Color frontispiece, color illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good. A bit edgeworn, with endpapers a tad worn and 2" expertly, archivally closed title page tear. A tight and..... More