Stony Lonesome. Illustrated by Ruth Mary Hallock.
Chicago [et al.]: Rand, McNally, [1923]. First edition, 12mo, pp. [6], 166; near fine in orig. pictorial green cloth stamped in black and orange. Boy's fiction. More
Chicago [et al.]: Rand, McNally, [1923]. First edition, 12mo, pp. [6], 166; near fine in orig. pictorial green cloth stamped in black and orange. Boy's fiction. More
Minneapolis: privately printed, 1931. 16mo, pp. 29, [1]; printed tan paper wrappers; light wear, small chip to one page not affecting text, very good. Arthur J. Russell was a Minnesota newspaper writer who often published small private tracts in editions of 200-500. More
Minneapolis: privately published, 1917. 12mo, pp. 127, [1]; frontispiece and 9 engraved text illustrations, gray paper boards with paper labels on cover and spine, light soiling, near fine, signed by Russell on endpaper along with a poem by Longfellow. Laid in is a greeting card with a long handwritten recollection..... More
Minneapolis: S.E. Olson & Co., ca. 1890s. Broadsheet (336 x189 mm.) printed on stiff cardboard; color illustration on recto; miniscule loss to top right-hand corner not affecting text, else fine. Advertisement for Olson's Bargains, "The People's Favorite Bargain Resort," whose department register boasts five floors of goods at 213 and..... More
Minneapolis: Salisbury & Satterlee Co., 1910-11. Small 4to, pp. 170; illustrated throughout, mostly beds, but also box springs and mattresses; original gilt-embossed green wrappers; very good and sound. Three pieces of company ephemera laid in. More
[Taylor's Falls, Minnesota: Sanford C. Sargent for the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad, n.d., ca. late 1880s]. Mammoth albumen photograph approx. 12¾" x 16¼" on a mount approx. 20" x 24", with printed caption; one corner of the mount bent, and the mount toned; overall, very good. Sargent (1851-1914) was..... More
New York: Citadel Press, [1992]. First edition, 8vo, pp. [16], 222, [4] ads; 7 illustrations; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Laura Nyro, etc., but mostly Dylan. More
St. Paul: W.G. Greene, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. 3-303, [1]; original brown cloth, gilt stamped spine, slightly soiled, library markings on spine; else very good or better; ex-MHS. More
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. First edition, 8vo, pp. vii, [3], 219; illustrated from photographs and drawings, maps; fine in original cloth and dust-wrapper. A study of the effects of industrialization on the environment of the river. More
[Stockholm, Wisconsin & Saint Paul, Minnesota]: Midnight Paper Sales, 2021. Edition limited to "100 possible copies" (in fact, only 88 were made, each numbered and signed by Schanilec), oblong 4to, being a series of 7 unbound oblong, frenchfold bifolia, each 9" x 12", 2 of them folding color wood engravings..... More
[Stockholm, WI]: Midnight Paper Sales, 2015. Edition limited to 119 copies, this being one of 100 bound in quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards (19 copies remain in sheets); folio (approx. 15½" x 10¼"), pp. [6], 9-11, [1], 15-25, [1], 29-31, [1], 35-37, [1], 41-43, [1], 47-66, [5]; large folding..... More
[Saint Paul]: Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1981. Edition limited to 15 copies, 274 mm. Bifolium, with a wrap-around band on which is printed “Refugee,” and with a printed leaf beginning “White feathers swept…” mounted on the verso of the first leaf. Linoleum cut, numbered and signed by GS on the..... More
Walhalla, N.D. Chas H. Lee, publisher, 1911. First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], xv, [1], 188; frontispiece portrait, map, 14 plates; likely a remainder, the gatherings stitched but without covers; very good. "The greater portion of the materials embraced in this little volume have been gathered from private journals and correspondence..... More
St. Cloud: Times Publishing Co., 1934. Only edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xxxvi, [2], 268; very good copy in orig. red cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover and spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by the editor. Among the contributors are Meridel Le Seuer, Ruth Shepard Phelps, Arthur Upson, and William C. Edgar, among..... More
[Washington, D.C.]: Gales & Seaton, print. 1834. House Doc. 323, 23d Congress, 1st Session. 8vo, pp. 68; large folding map ("Map of the Route passed over by an expedition into the Indian Country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi by Lieut. J. Allen, U.S. Inf. reduced from the..... More
Stillwater, Minn: Easton & Masterman, printers, 1916. First edition, 8vo, pp. [1], 508; frontispiece portrait of Gov. Alexander Ramsey, 5 other portraits, 1 plate showing 3 portraits (including Christopher B. Heffelfinger - see below), 4 plates of monuments, 2 folding maps, and 1 map in the text; original blue cloth..... More
[London]: Binnacle Press, 2001. Edition limited to 300 copies, staple-bound chapbook, 8.25" x 5.75", pp. [2], 23, [3]; text illustrations throughout; fine. One fan's ode to the singer/songwriter. More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. First and only edition, small 8vo, pp. 281 plus 6pp. publisher's ads, folding frontispiece map showing the Minnesota territory; original green cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt; leaning, spine faded, light foxing throughout, the map miscreased and with a 5-inch tear, still..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1850. Only edition, small 8vo, pp. 281 plus 6pp. publisher's ads, uncut; folding map showing the Minnesota territory; original front printed wrapper bound in; recent half brown calf over marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on spine. Nice clean copy of the uncommon wrapper issue (also bound..... More
St. Paul: Bookslinger Editions, 1976. Edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 173) signed by the author, 12mo, pp. [24]; hand-sewn into Darjeeling endsheets with Richard de Bas paper covers; fine. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum, Toothpaste Press, West Branch, Iowa. More
Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, [2009]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 278; nearly 2 dozen illustrations, largely from photographs, and many early; fine in original pictorial wrappers. Contributions by Greil Marcus, C. P. Lee, Mick Cochrane, and many others. More
New York: Viking Press, [1977]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [8], 184; illustrated throughout; dust jacket with a small break at the top of the spine; all else very good. "There has never been a tour like the tour Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue made through the Northeast in 1975..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., n.d., [ca. 1925]. First Harcourt edition, preceded only by the uncommon MacNeil edition, Seattle, 1924, and preceding the edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent; 8vo, pp. xii, 244; pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, dust-jacket a little worn around the..... More
New York: Dell, [1985]. First printing, 12mo, pp. 191, [1]; 8 plates; fine, unread copy of a mass-market paperback. More
[Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University, 1977. 4to, (11" x 8½"), viii, 148 leaves, photocopy typescript bound in faux black leather boards; fine. Discussion of songs 1961-68, with emphasis on the "traveling man." More