Illinois Wilds.
Urbana: Phoenix Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. 4to. Cream cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 156pp. Color frontispiece, extensive color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. More
Urbana: Phoenix Publishing, 1995. Hardcover. 4to. Cream cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 156pp. Color frontispiece, extensive color illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome, tight first edition. More
Madison: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, dust jacket. ix, 199pp. Illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Date inkstamped on top page edges. First edition, tight and handsome. More
Madison: College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth, dust jacket. ix, 199pp. Illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition, tight and handsome. More
Galena, IL: M.J. & A.J. Weber, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt front board lettering. 224pp, 93pp ads. Numerous illustrations, advertisements, green decorative endpapers. Very good. Mildly edgeworn only. Tight and attractive probable sole edition of this memorial yearbook of World War I veterans from Jo Daviess county..... More
Galena, IL: M.J. & A.J. Weber, n.y. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt front board lettering. 224pp, 93pp ads. Numerous illustrations, advertisements, green decorative endpapers. Very good. Quite faint binding wear only. A handsome, tight probable sole edition of this memorial yearbook of World War I veterans from Jo..... More
Evansville, IN: Unigraphic, Inc., [1977]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Light grey buckram with gilt lettering and decoration. 845pp, (1p ad), 88pp. Frontispiece, map, full-page portraits. Fine. Just a facsimile reprint of the scarce county history of the northwest Illinois region famed for Galena and its many Union generals (including U.S. Grant)..... More
Galena: Carl H. Johnson Jr., [1977]. Hardcover. Edited by Sandra J. Hirstein. Illustrations by Carl Johnson. Wide 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial gilt. x, 189pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), pictorial endpapers. Very good. Mild edgewear and some rubbing. First trade edition (second printing after a limited edition..... More
Galena: Carl H. Johnson Jr., [1977]. Hardcover. Edited by Sandra J. Hirstein. Illustrations by Carl Johnson. Wide 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial gilt. x, 189pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), pictorial endpapers. Near fine. First trade edition (second printing after a limited edition of 500 signed, numbered copies)..... More
Galena: Carl H. Johnson Jr., [1977]. Hardcover. Edited by Sandra J. Hirstein. Illustrations by Carl Johnson. Wide 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and pictorial gilt. x, 189pp. Numerous illustrations (many color), pictorial endpapers. Fine. First trade edition (second printing after a limited edition of 500 signed, numbered copies), tight..... More
York, PA: George Shumway Publisher, 1997-2005. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jackets. 489pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. Part of Shunway's "Longrifle Series," this superb pair of first editions are bright and pristine. It's a wonderfully heavily-illustrated text and the author signs the title..... More
New York: Exposition Press, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 168pp. Very good/very good. Autographed by Johnson. First edition. Bizarre, humorous novel (although the jacket refers to it as "a true-to-life adventure") about a live ape-man in central Wisconsin and his misadventures with the government, signed by the..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 255pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with spine a bit sunned; 1968 ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight and nice first edition of this history of the historic military fort in..... More
Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 1950. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black buckram with yellow spine lettering. 368pp. Map. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear; faint floral mustiness. A tight and nice second edition of the well-known opus of this British-born botanist (1903-70) who spent much of his..... More
Chicago: George R. Jones, 1964. Hardcover. Edited by Richard Penn Hartung. 8vo. Grey cloth. x, 93pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. First edition, tight and handsome. Biography of this Galena resident (and author's grandfather), later appointed Minister Resident to Belgium by President Ulysses S. Grant. Clothbound copies are rarely encountered, the vast..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacke. xvi, 216pp. Illustrations,maps. Very good/very good. Faint jacket wear; 1961 ownership signature/address on front flyleaf. A tight, attractive second printing. NEVINS II, 153. More
Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. viii, 252pp. Very good/fair. Jacket actually quite attractive, but long tear on rear cover repaired with 2" wide clear packing tape. First edition, tight and clean. More
Strasbourg, France: Editions du Signe, 2007. Hardcover. 4to. Black glazed pictorial paper over boards. 376pp. Numerous illustrations (many color). Fine. First edition of this hefty centennial history covering the 1908-2008 period, tight and pristine. More
Chicago: Nelson-Hall Publishers, 1993. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 292pp. Illustrations. Fine/fine. A handsome and tight first edition. Rather uncommon. More
St. Louis: State Publishing Company, 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan pictorial cloth. 184pp. Illustrations, 2 maps, pictorial endpapers. Very good. Institutional inkstamp on front pastedown (obscured by pictorial endpaper) and lightly on outer page edges. Third printing, a tight, clean copy. More
Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, [2004]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this chronicle of the famed 1854 Mississippi steamboat expedition from Rock Island, Illinois, to St. Anthony Falls in the Minnesota Territory, a...... More
Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, [2008]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 402pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. A tight and lovely first edition of this account of a distinguished Illinois and Midwest family that included congressman, ambassador and U.S. Grant buddy Elihu and..... More
[New York]: Kensington Books, [1996]. Paperback. 8vo. Stiff glazed pictorial wrappers. 308pp. Near fine. St. Louyis, Missouri with a killer on the loose is the setting for this detective novel. Advance reading copy ("Uncorrected Proof"), tight and handsome -- signed and inscribed boldly by the author in blue fineline on..... More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, [1971]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 126pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket rather rubbed, with spine sunned; ownership initials on front pastedown; endpapers a tad age toned; several small, inoffensive errant highlighter marks. A tight and..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine and black paper over boards, dust jacket. xiii, 436pp. Near fine/very good. jacket spine sunned. Tight, nice first edition. More
Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1979. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. x, 617pp. Fine. First edition. Tight, superb copy of this survey of the Prairie State's fiction. More