[Minneapolis]: Walker Art Center and Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1991. Edition limited to 329 copies, this one of 300 of the regular edition, numbered and signed by Armajani, small oblong folio, frontispiece on translucent paper, 3 preliminary leaves plus 7 sections, each descriptive and illustrative of a particular bridge..... More
Saint Paul: E.W. Porter, 1901. 8vo, pp. ix, 456; photographic portrait frontispiece, 22 plates; original red cloth (soiled), gilt lettering; spine toned, edges and corners badly bumped and rubbed, small tears and fraying at spine head; interior fine. More
Saint Paul: E.W. Porter, 1901. First edition (""compiled and enlarged from the author's Early History of the Dakota Territory in 1866""), 8vo, pp. ix-[x], 456; portrait frontis and 22 plates; spine slightly faded, else near fine in original maroon cloth, gilt lettering on spine and upper cover. A printed letter..... More
Chicago: S.P. Rounds, 1864. First edition of Minnesota's first literary anthology, 8vo, pp. [4], 336; engraved portrait of Stephen Miller, governor of Minnesota, one of the contributors, and to whom the book is dedicated, plus contributions from 22 Minnesota poets (each with a brief biographical sketch appended), including Ignatius Donnelly..... More
Saint Paul: A. Bailey, 1863. First edition; 8vo, pp. [2] ads, 170; contemporary brown morocco over comb-marbled boards; some fading and scuffing but generally very good. From the Preface: "We present to our patrons a new City Directory, satisfied that it is as nearly correct as a thorough and systematic..... More
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, [1998]. First edition, large 8vo, pp. xxi, [3], 287; frontis.; illus. throughout; fine in original printed wrappers. More
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Soc. Collections, vol. XIII, 1908. First edition, 8vo, xii & 480pp., frontis portrait of the author, 18 portraits of the governors, from Alexander Ramsey (first territorial governor) to John Johnson, 16th governor of the state, elected 1905. Spine a little rubbed, but a tight, near fine..... More
[Welwyn Garden City]: [c. 1995-1999]. Five volumes, 1-3 are first editions limited to 250 copies, 4-5 are second edition; folio, punch bound; totaling about 1,200 pages; pictorial paper wrappers; light foxing to edges and covers, volume four with a small break in the binding, very good overall, or better. An..... More
Mankato: Free Press Print, 1893. 8vo, pp. 32; original pictorial wrappers; some chipping and toning; good. Includes sections on water reservoirs, native plants, forest fires, the great plains, the forestry movement, lumber interests, etc. More
Minneapolis: Mnenomic Press, 2006. Edition limited to 40 copies (this no. 19) numbered and signed by Harriet Bart; very tall folio (approx. 23" x 6½"), accordion fold, 6 panels printed on rectos only containing 22 visual poems by 15 poets; very fine in original gray printed wrappers, with original printed..... More
[Des Moines?]: Famous Etiquette Publishers Ltd., 1986. 8½" x 5½", pp. 40, illustrated throughout, color pictorial pastedown on upper cover; original printed green wrappers; near fine. From the publishers of the US fanzine Look Back, this is a 40-page pamphlet looking at the 1986 True Confessions Tour with Tom Petty..... More
[Surrey: Wanted Man, 1995]. Edition limited to 300 copies, small 8vo, pp. 90, [2]; text illustrations, a number in color; perfect bound in stiff pictorial paper wrappers, fine. On-the-road musings of the late John Bauldie which originally appeared in issues 31 and 33 of The Telegraph, 1987-88. None in OCLC..... More
London/Munich/Chicago: Ernst-Otto Begerau, 1988. First edition, staple-bound chapbook, 8.25" x 6"; pp. 93, [1]; together with the Updates & Upgrades addendum (issued in 1990) inserted, pp. [1], 27; pictorial printed paper wrappers with a portrait of Dylan at concert on upper wrappers, taken by Hertha Begerau; wrappers toning, else fine..... More
London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828. First edition in English of the author's La decouverte des sources du Mississippi (1824), 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. lxxvi, 472-[473]; [ii], 545; portrait frontis., 2 engraved folding plans, large folding map of the length of the Mississippi, and 3 engraved plates for Indian ornaments; ex-library..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, [1964.]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 84; 3 small spots on front board, slight breaks at the spine ends of the jacket, small break at the bottom of the back panel, else a near fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1948. First edition, with mimeograph letter about the book from the publisher laid in; 8vo, pp. xii, 190; jacket with a few minor imperfections, else about fine. This copy with a T.L.s. from the author to Emerson Wulling laid in, together with a form letter..... More
Saint Paul [MN]: Hamline University, 1939. First edition limited to 350 copies, small 8vo, pp. 110, [1], errata slip tipped in facing p. 110; fine in original terra cotta cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. This copy inscribed by the editor on page 8, at the end..... More
New York: Wood & Holbrook, 1871. First edition, small 8vo, 205-[207]pp., plus 8pp. ads, frontis of Minnehaha Falls; extremities rubbed, spine quite faded, else near fine in orig. gilt-stamped purple cloth. Cover title: Climates for Invalids"" and ""Minnesota, California, Florida, Nassau, Fayal, Adirondacs."" Nearly three-quarters of the text touts Minnesota's..... More
Sao Paulo: IGLU Editora, 1992. First edition, folio, pp. 126, [2]; original pictorial wrappers; fine. Errata slip laid in as well as a letter presumably from the publishers noting that this "is the first official and authorized publication on Bob Dylan in Latin America, authorized by himself. Contains over 80..... More
Faribault: Holly & Brown, 1861. 8vo, pp. 8; disbound, some soiling and foxing, else very good or better. Martin 356, locating two copies. More
Faribault: Alex. Johnston, 1863. 8vo, pp. 7, [1]; disbound, very slight foxing, small nick in fore-edge of last page not affecting text; else very good or better. Martin 473, locates only the MHS copy. More
Faribault: Alex. Johnston, 1862. 8vo, pp. 10, [2]; disbound, minor foxing, at one time was creased horizontally across middle; very good or better. Martin 420, locates only the MHS copy. More
Faribault: Alex. Johnston, 1862. 8vo, pp. 8; disbound, minor foxing, at one time was creased horizontally across middle; very good or better. Martin 420, locates only the MHS copy. More
New York: Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, 1857. First edition, 8vo, pp. 342; engraved frontispiece portrait, 9 plates, and several vignettes; spine faded and with cracks in the cloth starting at the joints, else a good copy in original brown cloth. Bishop was Minnesota's first school teacher. Not in Howes, Sabin..... More
