Red Wing, Minn. Red Wing Printing Co., Steam Print, 1880. 8vo, pp. [16], [18] ads; 5 vignette woodcuts in the text plus several illus. ads at the back; a very good copy in orig. yellow printed wrappers; there is a cancel slip tipped to the title-page, changing the dates of..... More
Brookings: Dutcher, Breed, & Storgaard, 1894. First edition, 8vo, pp. 208, [3]; 58 plates; lacking wrappers; stitched, as issued; some foxing; else good or better. Details various grasses and wheats for agricultural purposes. More
Minneapolis: Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co, [c 1904]. Eight die-cut cards, printed with marketing pitches for Columbia Flower interspersed with a numerical party trick in which the subject's age appears in the die cut windows. Fine. The Northwestern Consolidated Milling Co. owned about 9% of the country's flower and grist products..... More
[Austin, Minn.]: The Book Committee, 1914. 8vo, pp. 324, [1] errata leaf; folding map; original tan cloth (soiled), lettered in red and black; contemporary signature, Edward Chenery Gale's bookplate; some toning throughout; back hinge a bit weak; a good copy. More
[Washington, D.C. March 19, 1850.]. Exec. Doc. no. 51, 31st Congress, 1st Session. 8vo, pp. 55; removed from binding. Includs supplemental reports from Henry M. Rice, G. A. Belcourt, missionary priest, and Brevet Captain, John Pope of the Topographical Corps. More
Saint Paul: Pioneer Press Company, 1897. First edition, 8vo, pp. 47, [1]; nine photographs and eight illustrations; original green printed wrappers, some soiling, library stamp on cover; else very good or better. More
Minneapolis: Syndicate Printing Co., 1925. 12mo, pp. 272; many portrait illus. throughout; original printed wrappers, some minor soiling, joints worn; else very good or better. Provides an interesting look at the Minnesota State Fair when it was the largest fair of its kind in the United States. In addition to..... More
Saint Paul: James M. Goodhue, printer, 1849. 16mo, pp. 15, [1]; original plain brown printed wrappers, fine. A very early - if not the first - piece of printing in Minnesota, exclusive of newspapers. Of the 14 pieces of printing identified by Martin in her Checklist of Minnesota Imprints, 1849-1865..... More
[Minneapolis and/or Saint Paul: v.d. Brown, John Mason. Beyond the present. Minneapolis & St. Paul, 1948. Edition ltd. to 650 copies, slim 8vo, [6] & 28pp., fine copy in orig. brown cloth, paper labels, tissue dust jacket. Aris, Rutherford. The ampersand in script & print. An essay in honor of..... More
St. Anthony: William W. Wales, Bookseller and Publisher; Minneapolis: Thomas Hale Williams, 1857. Only edition, 12mo, pp. 32, [4] ads; full-p. map of Lake Minnetonka, 7 wood-engraved illustrations in the text (5 full-p.); 1" x 2" chip to corner of upper wrapper, otherwise a near fine copy in original printed..... More
Minneapolis: V.O. Hammon Pubshling Co., ca. 1911. Oblong 12mo, pp. [52]; fifty illustrations in color; original brown string-bound wrappers printed in green, color plate mounted to upper cover; some wear to yapp edges, interior fine. Photo-based tour of picturesque scenes and architecture in Minneapolis. More
St. Paul: McGill-Warner Co., 1920. One color map (approx. 648 x 521 mm.) folded down to approx. 178 x 114 mm. in brown printed wrappers; occasional tears from folds, else very good. Map title: "Standard map of Chisago County, Minnesota, showing portions of Isanti and Anoka Counties". University of Minnesota..... More
Saint Paul: printed by Brown and Olmsted, 1854. Small 8vo, pp. 22, [2]; orig. yellow printed wrappers, stitched, as issued; back wrap soiled, else fine. Martin 72, locating only the Minnesota Historical Society copy; not in Sabin; NUC locating only the MHS copy as well. I dare say rare: in..... More
[Minneapolis?]: Press of the C.A. Mitchell Printing Co., 1899. Edition limited to 1999 copies of which this is no. 30, 4 volumes, 16mo; black and white plates, some folding; text illustrations; original white printed wrappers, red line borders; original green paper slipcase, paper labels on upper cover and spine; wrappers..... More
Minneapolis: W. A. Edwards Printing Co., 1891. First edition, 8vo, pp. [12] ads, 110, [14] ads; original brown cloth spotted and a little stained, rear hinge cracking; a good copy. A charity recipe book organized in 16 chapters offering descriptions of methods for baking bread, breakfast, salads, cakes, soups, fish..... More
[Minneapolis]: Bookslinger Editions & Odegard Books, [1981]. Edition limited to 300 copies, folio bifolium paper cover by Gerry Lange of the Bieler Press, each containing 6 broadsides; the 2 broadsides printed by Schanilec are, “Once in the Pool, Doing My Laps,” by Susan Allen Toth, and, “Why Men Are Not..... More
Winona: Watkins, ca. 1920s. 8vo, pp. 96; near fine in original wrappers, small hole punched through upper left corner, cover is a colorful illustration of "Watkins City", a fictional city created by grouping all Watkins Company buildings across the nation into one picture. "Tested recipes, secrets of beauty, the home..... More
St. Paul: [Ampersand Club], 2009. Square 8vo, pp. 9" x 9", pp. 47, [1]; color photographs throughout; a collection of rememberences by close friends of Powers; original gray paper wrappers; fine. Powers was design and production manager at Minnesota Historical Society Press as well as proprieter of Amaranth Press and..... More
Portland, Maine: L. H. Nelson Company, 1906. First edition, oblong 4to, unpaged; chiefly plain photographic views; original green pictorial wrappers stamped in gilt; a bit of wear from handling, else very good and sound. Depicts the various landmarks of Minneapolis and St. Paul, including Minnehaha Falls, Fort Snelling, and Nicollet..... More
St. Paul: February 23, 1854. 4to, 43 lines, approx. 330 words; previous folds, else fine, and with the original mailing envelope bearing an 1854 St. Paul postmark. Homes warns that St. Paul is no place to live: "I shall not give them much encouragement if they come here [and] must..... More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1989. 8vo, pp. [8], 130, [6]; blue pictorial paper wrappers, fine. Inscribed by Agee on title page. "For Marie- Keep the heart bending, flexible, loving." More
White Bear Lake, MN: National Speleological Society, 1980. 4to, pp. v, [1], 190; illustrations and maps throughout 5 large folding charts in back of Mystery Cave, Carlin Caverns, Farmers and Mechanics Bank Cave, Cold Water Cave, and Boscobel Bear, Paradise Pit and Horseshoe Bay Caves. Yellow printed paper wrappers, offsetting..... More
Collegeville, MN: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, 1988-1990. First edition, 3 volumes, 8vo; frontispiece, facsimiles; original blue mottled cloth, gilt-lettering to spine and upper cover; fine. Addenda and corrigenda laid into Vols. I and II. Vol. III compiled by Amos and Jonathan Black. More
Collegeville, MN: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, 1988. First edition, 8vo, pp. xlix, [1], 307; frontispiece, facsimiles; original blue mottled cloth, gilt-lettering to spine and upper cover; red ownership label at spine head, else. fine. Vol. I (of three) only. More
Minneapolis: Andersen & Foss Typesetting Company, ca. 1930. Small 8vo, pp. 140; illustrations; original stiff brown wrappers printed in brown and green; covers a bit creased, light wear, else very good. Minnesota Historical Society only in OCLC. More
