(Dayton Hudson: Detroit, MI), 1985. Photos, 11 x 11", pict stapled wraps, 63pp, covers a bit rubbed and toned, rear cover (and last several pp) creased, old address label on rear cover, contents good. More about 1985 Hudson's Christmas Gift Catalog
Protestant Episcopal Press: NY, 1835. Bound with: PSALMS, In Metre. . . Protestant Episcopal Press: NY, 1835. 7.5 x 5.5, gilt ruled old mottled calf with marbled endpapers, 359, 117. Covers worn, stained, rubbed, front cover almost detached, lacking leather over lower front right corner & surrounding leather is cracked... More about EARLY DETROIT GIFT PRESENTATION. THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
The Stratford Co: Boston, MA, 1924. 7.5 x 5, gilt lettered blue cloth, 349 pp with index, covers heavily worn and darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, inner front hinge broken, pp toned and used. Copyright Knights of Columbus. More about THE GIFT OF BLACK FOLK, The Negroes in the Making of America
Tuskegee, 1936. Gift inscription tag oblong 2 x 5, message in brown ink written on the reverse of a Christmas and New Year gift tag, ring 1 1/4" diameter, napkin 19 x 16, cream colored, cotton or linen, the name "Carver" embroidered in brown thread. Gift tag has creasing, soiling... More about Handwritten Gift Inscription Tag, dated Dec. 24th, 1936, from George Washington Carver to...
Frederick Warne: London. 1892. 7.5 x 5, cloth, 176 pp, ads on end papers, brown and sky blue decorated light olive cloth, mildly worn, foot of spine bumped, ink gift inscription else internally clean and sound, early printing (fifteenth thousand). More about THE ALBION TEMPERANCE RECITER: A Collection of Recitations in Prose and Verse
Detroit, nd (1930s). Circular, 4" diameter, red printing on a tan cardboardish background. Light staining, soiling and small abrasion on reverse else good. Printed on one side "Delicatessen Cordials Cocktails Chocolate Bars Candy Boxes Marzipan . . . German Records and Greeting Cards. 3152 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, Mich." Also shows... More about Beer coaster from the German-American Import House
Anchor Publishing: St. Louis, MO, 1878. 9 x 6, cloth, 388 pp, 241 pp, illustr, gilt title and decorated brown cloth, moderately worn, front hinge starting, owner's bookplate, ink gift inscription else clean and sound, good FIRST ED. More about THE GREAT AWAKENING ON TEMPERANCE, AND THE GREAT CONTROVERSY, ROMANISM, PROTESTANTISM AND JUDAISM
Silco Stainless USA, nd (1930?). 6" length, stamped the Union News Co. on front of the handle, backstamped Silco Stainless USA. Scratches, light wear, needs some cleaning else good/very good. The spoon does not bear marks from either railroad company but was acquired from someone who knew it came from... More about Teaspoon from the Union News Company which had restaurants in Detroit's Michigan Central Railroad...
Detroit Public Library: Detroit. 1922. 9.5 x 7, cloth, 86 pp, index, lightly soiled bookplate, signed gift presentation by Gracie B. Krum, former director of the Burton Historical Collection, vg. FIRST ED. More about CORPORATION FOR THE TOWN OF DETROIT: Act of Incorporation and Journal of the Board of Trustees,...
Privately printed: Detroit. 1915. 9 x 6, cloth, 314 pp, index, blue cloth with gilt titled red morocco spine label, signed gift presentation by Gracie B. Krum, former director of the Burton Historical Collection, issued without jacket, FIRST ED. More about GOVERNOR AND JUDGES JOURNAL: Proceedings of the Land Board of Detroit
Schober & Co.: Detroit, 1876. 9.25 x 6", cloth, 606pp with index, covers worn and soiled, extremities bumped and fraying, spine sunned, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, ink signature of former owner on front blank, pp toned and a bit used with some foredge soiling. Included is a short, one... More about Outlines of the Political History of Michigan
Mack, Andrus, and Woodruff: Ithaca, 1840. 9.5 x 5", full leather, red leather spine label, 41pp. Covers very well worn, rubbed, etc., front cover detached, gift inscription, contents foxed else good condition, text block tight. More about A TREATISE ON THE POWERS AND DUTIES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND TOWN OFFICERS IN THE STATE OF...
(Detroit) (1924). Small vignette drawings; tipped-in frontis, 8 x 5.5", boards, unpaged, covers soiled & slightly stained. Christmas gift book SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Poem about lotus beds in the River Raisin and Lake Erie. More about THE LEGEND OF THE LOTUS
C.H.A.B. Publications: Brussels. 1996. 9.5 zx 7, softcover, 100 pp, well illustr, appendices, bib, cloth backed wrappers with dust jacket, lengthy gift inscription by author, vg. Second ed., SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. More about PRINCE CAMILLE DE POLIGNAC, Major General, CSA: "The Lafayette of the South."
National Historical Association: Dayton, OH, 1924. 10 x 7, cloth, 1064 pp, 623 pp, illustr, end notes, index, orig blue buckram, ink gift inscription volume 2, vg FIRST ED. More about HISTORIC MICHIGAN, Also Local History of Detroit and Wayne County, 3 volumes
Thos. P. Henry: n.p. (Detroit) 1913. Color rose decorations on each page, 7 x 4", boards, unpaged, top corners bumped, spine torn at bottom, covers rubbed, front inner hinge detached. Gift book, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY GUEST. Former owner's name in gilt on front cover. More about FRIEND O'MINE
Yale Univ. Press: New Haven 1925. 11 x 8.5", olive cloth, 89pp, 35 plates, 11 figures, bib, ex-lib, light wear to corners, mild spotting to front board, author signed ink gift inscription to ffep and a.l.s. tipped in to ffep. FIRST EDITION. More about PUEBLO POTTERY MAKING: A Study at the Village of San Ildefonso
Saint Vincent College Center for Northern Appalachian Studies: Latrobe, 2000. Illustr, 9.25 x 6, pict boards with matching dust jacket, 227 pp. Christmas gift inscription on free front endpaper else very good, dust jacket flap has a creased corner else very good. The book is a collection of letters that... More about WAITING FOR JACOB, A Civil War Story. [105th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
G.P. Putnam's Sons: NY, 1888. Hardcover. Illus., 8 x 5.5", gilt-lettered blue cloth, 581pp + pp, covers very worn, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, pp used and worn and yellowed. Later edition (first edition published the year before). There are ink inscriptions on front fly: one... More about MEMORIALS OF A HALF-CENTURY In Michigan and the Lake Region
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: London, nd. 7.5 x 5, hardcover, 156 pp, illustr, brown cloth with gilt titles, original black and blue printed white paper wrapper with illustr by Alan J. Bowyer, jacket largely intact with soiling and a couple short tears, ink gift inscription dated 1931, very good... More about AN ESKIMO VILLAGE
The Neal Publishing Co: NY, 1908. Illustr, 9 x 6, gilt lettered green cloth, 383 pp with index, covers spotted, extremities worn, front inner hinge cracking, old gift inscription from former owner else a decent copy. FIRST ED. More about MEMORIES OF THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN
Loyal Order of Moose: Toledo. 1921. 7.5 x 4.5, wrappers, 31 pp, trichrome illustr, erased inscription from front wrapper, small tear to front wrapper, gift stamp to front free endpaper, else vg. FIRST ED. More about TOLEDO: City of Opportunity
Privately Printed 2000. 9 x 7", soft cover, 350pp, illus, ink gift inscription from author's wife to Doug McClennen, who designed the cover, short closed tear to front wrapper. Meyer was an emigree from Nazi Germany and later professor at Michigan and Michigan State. More about MY LIFE AS A FISH: A Memoir
Schwartz Printing Co: Nampa, Idaho. 1978. Photos, 9.25 x 6, boards, 275 pp, bookplate, ink name and date, gift label (from author's husband), on inside back cover, corners slightly bumped else ok in browned dw. FIRST ED, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, ALSO LONG PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR'S HUSBAND. ALSO A.L.S. from... More about SKETCHES OF OWYHEE COUNTY
Jaques Cattell Press: Lancaster, PA, 1942. 10 x 7, hardcover, 697 pp, illustr, index, black cloth with gilt titles, moderate edge wearm, upper fore corners bumped, front hinge starting, no jacket, good/average condition. FIRST ED, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED GIFT INSCRIPTION BY FORMER MICHIGAN GOVERNOR G.MENNEN WILLIAMS AND WIFE NANCY. More about SCHOOLCRAFT, LONGFELLOW, HIAWATHA