N.p. The Union News Company [printed by J. C. Bardell, Oakland, California], 1926. Pictorial mailing envelope approx. 5½" x 3¼", containing 15 captioned black & white photographs of St. Paul, each approx. 3¼" x 2"; the envelope is addressed to a Mrs. Stitz in Portland, Oregon and three of the..... More
St. Paul, Minn. H. H. Young, Secretary of Board [of Immigration], [1881]. 8vo, pp. 64; 28 wood-engraved illustrations throughout; original printed gray wrappers; slight chipping of the spine, some soiling but generally near fine. Notes on the natural resources, climate and temperature, population, Native Americans, water power, manufacturing, mining, agriculture..... More
St. Paul: Published by The Farmer [by] Webb Publishing Company, 1913. Large, slim 4to, pp. 37, [9]; full-page color maps throughout; original green printed cloth (soiling), edges quite frayed and worn; joints reinforced, large tear to pp. 22A-22B affecting text without loss of meaning, else interior very good and sound..... More
Minneapolis: 1909. Approx. 8" x 6", containing six engraved leaves consisting of a pictorial title page, a full-page photo-engraved portrait of President Taft, a menu bearing the flags of the United States, Minnesota, and Minneapols; a leaf of toasts bearing the seal of the United States and the Capitol in..... More
Decorah, Iowa: Der Norste Synodes Forlag, 1898. 8vo, pp. 55, [1];152, 66, 68, 82, [4]; text in Norwegian; three folding charts; black cloth-backed printed boards; each section with its own title page covering the districts of Iowa , Minnesota, East, and Pacific; boards and last 30 pages with extensive water..... More
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, n.d. Edition limited to 1000 copies, 8vo, pp. [10], 52, [1]; frontispiece illustration and 4 plates; near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. The Bohemian Flats lay along the Mississippi just below the falls of St. Anthony, between Minneapolis and St. Paul, where settled many..... More
DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University, 1980. 8vo, pp. [24]; portrait of Byron on title page, 7 facsimiles; fine in original printed orange wrappers. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum at The Toothpaste Press. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press..... More
N.p. [Saint Paul?]: 1869. Large plate albumen photograph approx. 12" x 21" mounted on a printed card approx. 16" x 21"; slight toning; very good. A large and unusual photograph by an unnamed photographer showing the steamer Buckeye towing what was at the time the largest raft ever run on..... More
St. Paul: Pioneer Printing Co., 1867. 8vo, pp. [2], 62; original printed tan wrappers, slightly chipped and cracked; very good. Contains articles on the "Mineral Regions of Lake Superior," the disgraced explorer "Constantine Beltrami," "Historical Notes of the United States Land Office," and perhaps most important, "Dakota Supersitions," by Gideon..... More
St. Anthony & Minneapolis: Croffut & Clark, 1859. First edition of the second directory of Minneapolis, 8vo, pp. [6], [15]-162, [2]; numerous advertisements throughout; later black cloth, with the insertion of 5 postcard photographs (one with the stamp of Edward Bromley) on the endpapers and pastedowns, a number of early..... More
St. Paul & Philadelphia, 1860-1920. Volume I, 1902 (being a republication of the original "Annals," (all scarce in original editions, 1850-56); Vol. II, 1889 (a republication of Major Stephen H. Long's Voyage in a Six-Oared Skiff to the Falls of St. Anthony in 1817, with Introductory Note by Edward D...... More
Red Wing: Red Wing Printing Co., 1882. 8vo, pp. 14; orig. pink printed wrappers; slight fading at extremities, old library rubber-stamp on cover, else very good. Unusually nice copy. More
Winnipeg, Man. Clarl Bros. & Co., Limited, n.d., [ca. 1910]. 32mo (approx. 4¼" x 3¼"), pp. [256]; ruled calendar and date book, filled in sporadically with names and dates of birth and/or birthdays, largely people from Montana; ownership signture and address of Serene Griffin, Marietta, Minnesota and Mildred Talaas, 417..... More
St. Paul, [Minnesota]: Tuesday Morning, March 21, 1882. 24" x 17½", pp. [4]; 7 columns per page, removed from binding (2 single sheets). Wahpeton, Dakota Territory - a flourishing town in the heart of rich and fertile country (with map), a report Lieut. Melville furnashes an account of some of..... More
St. Paul: [St. Paul Institute, 1916]. 8vo, pp. vi, 156; full tan cloth; splatter of ink staining on upper cover, text clean and sound, very good. The institute was founded to "promote among all classes of people the knowledge and enlightenment which are essential to right living and good citizenship..... More
St. Paul: [St. Paul Institute, 1919]. 8vo, pp. [4], 129, [1]; full orange cloth; touch of soiling to boards, text clean and sound, very good. The institute was founded to "promote among all classes of people the knowledge and enlightenment which are essential to right living and good citizenship. It..... More
Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing [for] Faribault County Bicentennial Commission, 1977. First edition, 4to, pp. 299, [1]; text in double column; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original brown imitation morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. More
St. Paul: Webb Publishing Company. Three pieces of advertising matter for The Farmer's Wife, a periodical, aimed at club leadership. One bifolium printed in green offers 50 cents for every dollar earned by the club through subscriptions, with suggestions of how to obtain them. One typescript letter extoling the benefits..... More
Saint Paul: Press Publishing Co., 1863. 5,000 copies printed, pp. 377; original printed wrappers, small tear near tail of spine, stain near fore-edge slightly affecting front cover and text block, spine shows moderate soiling; else near fine or better. Martin 496. More
Saint Paul: Wm. R. Marshall, State Printer, 1861. 8vo, pp. 448; red and black leather labels on spine; full original sheep a bit scuffed, otherwise on the whole good and sound. Ownership label on Wallace H. Davis at the bottom of the spine. "5,000 copies ordered printed." Martin, Minnesota Imprints..... More
Saint Paul: Marshall, 1861. 8vo, pp. 448; original green printed wrappers, back wrap torn away, small piece of pp. 447-448 torn away near top outer corner slightly affecting text, minor nicks along faded spine, corners of cover dog-eared, some soiling; else a good copy or better. Martin 378, locates only..... More
Faribault, Minn. Orville Brown, State Printer, 1860. 8vo, pp. [3], 6-347, [1]; bound with: Special Laws of the State of Minnesota passed and approved during the second session of the State Legislature ... One thousand copies ordered printed. Faribault: Orville Brown, State Printer, 1860, pp. [3], vi-viii, 144; contemporary quarter..... More
[St. Paul: Tribune Job Dept., Print.], 1883. Only edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 126; illustrated with 16 wood-engravings (many full-p.) as well as an inserted double-p. map of the city; very good copy in original limp terracotta cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover. Published during Minneapolis's great boomtime, the book..... More
Saint Paul: Globe Print, 1880. 8vo, pp. [6]; text in double column; near fine in original printed orange wrappers. More
Minneapolis & St. Paul: American Land & Title Register Assn. 1899. First and only edition, 8vo, 2 vols. in 1 as issued, 296 & 305pp., text in double column, numerous illustrations throughout, the bulk of them portraits of firefighters, policemen and criminals, but also with street and country scenes, weapons..... More
