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Buffalo, NY: Warren, Johnson & Co. (Author's Edition, 1st thus, updated to February 1873 through Appendix II, "A Remarkable Campaign"). Hardcover with blind-stamped green cloth boards, gilt titles and decorated spine (still bright). No dust jacket, as issued. Frontispiece protected by heavily toned tissue guard. B&W engravings throughout. Spine extremities and edges are worn; boards are worn, with cardboard showing… Read more about this item

Millwood, NY: Kraus-Thomson Organization Limited (1st thus, 1980). Like new hardcover with blue cloth boards, 159 pages. No dust jacket (if issued). ISBN 9780527253455 ABOUT THE BOOK: This book contains SELECTIONS from THE BROWNIES' BOOK, compiled and edited by Herbert Aptheker. It is part of Aptheker's The Complete Published Works of W.E.B. Du Bois. In January 1920 a new monthly… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Group of three matched Thomas Nelson Page books: Marse Chan (1900); Meh Lady (1901); Unc' Edinburg (1897). Book design by Margaret Neilson Armstrong: dark blue cloth-covered boards with pale green Art Nouveau flower design; each title is featured on a silver scroll design across the front. Book titles and author's name in gilt on spines.… Read more about this item

~~FLAT SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR ON 2ND FFEP VERSO~~ Baldwin City, KS: Telegraphics (1st Edition, 1975). Hardcover with gold cloth boards, black titles,193 pages. Dust jacket is lightly scuffed, with minor chipping at head of spine. Book itself is in beautiful condition: clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. ABOUT THE BOOK: An invaluable book that preserves some of the history… Read more about this item

Baldwin City, KS: Telegraphics (1st Edition, 1975). Hardcover with gold cloth boards, black titles,193 pages. Dust jacket is now protected by clear mylar cover, but shows edgewear, rubbing to the spine, erosion to spine extremities, and a couple of jagged, closed tears to the back flap and back cover (1-1/2" and 3" respectively) (the one on the back cover has… Read more about this item

~~PERSONAL INSCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR DATED 1994 ON TITLE PAGE~~ Denver, CO: Sundance Books (Stated 1st Printing, June 1993). Two-tone quarter cloth and color pictorial paper over boards, titles stamped in gilt on the spine and in white on the front cover, in original-issue clear plastic jacket, 352 pages (11"x 8.75"x1", 4 lb.) Preface, acknowledgements, double column, illustrated (some in… Read more about this item

New York: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin (1st Edition/1st Printing, 1866). Hardcover with brown cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. NOT A REPRODUCTION OR FACSIMILE. This is a solidly bound book from 1866. Spine is straight and square. Front cover has a vertical crease, but it doesn't extend to the inside of the front cover. A bit of fraying at the… Read more about this item

Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company (1st Edition, 1899). Tooled leather hardcover with gilt title and decoration, gilt top and fore edges, 845 pages. Book is housed in an archival museum box. Sewn binding of text block extremely weak. Backstrip of spine missing. Boards have separated from the binding. The leather covers are heavily worn, with sections along the spine, edges, and… Read more about this item

Calvin W. Gower, "Kansas Territory and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush," unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, 1958. Professionally bound hardcover with black boards, white titles, onion skin paper, 335 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. Includes two maps: 1) The Gold Fields, 2) Routes to the Gold Regions of Colorado, 1859. ABOUT… Read more about this item

Fairfax, VA: Self Published (1st Edition, April 1999). Hardcover, 109 pages. About the Book: The Kramer family was one of the German immigrant families that settled on the absentee Shawnee Indian lands in Douglas County, Kansas, in 1864. Tracing and documenting the movement of this family from Württemberg in southwest Germany to the Iowa frontier, to western Missouri, and then… Read more about this item

Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company (Stated 3rd Edition, 1856, same year as 1st Edition). 366 pages, with 6 pages of publisher ads. Boards and backstrip missing, but the solidly bound text block has been protected with museum conservation techniques. Book was formerly held in a regional museum. Original tissue guard is in place to protect the frontispiece; tissue guard… Read more about this item

Topeka, KS: W. Y. Morgan (1st Edition, 1899). Paper wrap covers, side stapled, 96 pages. Covers show wear, with small chips and tears to edges and corners. Illustration and lettering remain bright. Text block tight and solid. Covers have been re-attached with book tape and hinges reinforced with archival document tape. Pages are lightly toned; clean and unmarked. ABOUT THE BOOK:… Read more about this item

Lawrence, KS: Privately Printed by William E. Morris, Jr. (1st Edition, December 1906). Hardcover with red textured boards and black titles/illustration, 110 pages, heavy stock, cream-colored. No dust jacket was issued. Signed by the author on the Foreward page. Clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. llustrated throughout with original postcards, both color and black-and-white, mounted on individual… Read more about this item

Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press (1st Edition, 1957). Hardcover with gray boards and dust jacket, 38 pages. Former museum copy; only sign of that is a small shelving sticker on front cover. Dust jacket is scuffed and has several small closed and open tears and chipping. Book is clean and unmarked, with a square, tight binding. ABOUT THE BOOK: Since… Read more about this item

Olathe, KS: Charles R. Green, Historian and Publisher (1st Edition, January 1913 [though stated on front cover to be April, 1912], Green's Historical Series). Ex-museum copy, with call number sticker on front cover. Both boards creased and cracked full length of cover. Book is in rough condition, but is quite rare. Boards are age soiled and stained; edges and… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company (Presumed 1st Trade Edition, 1928). Hardcover with black boards, faded gilt lettering on spine, 377 pages. No dust jacket, if issued. Pages toned; deckled edges. Gift inscription from 1928 on FFEP, but otherwise clean and unmarked. Front hinge is cracked and there is some play in the binding; text block intact. Boards… Read more about this item

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co. (#803, undated). Hardcover, 188 pages. No dust jacket, as issued. Pages toned and brittle; clean and unmarked. Covers and spine show age wear, with corners bumped and spine extremities chipped. Front cover has been re-attached with clear archival book tape. Binding is weak; spine is shelf cocked. Wonderful art deco cover design. Frank and Fearless was… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Armand Colin (Stated 2nd Printing, Prix 45 cent,1910). Small book with stiff board covers, rust with cream titles and decorations, cream backstrip, 82 pages (pages numbered 74-156). Book is somewhat fragile; pages are toned and brittle. Stitched binding is intact. Edges of covers show wear and front top corner is worn through to the cardboard. Wonderfully illustrated. This is… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Point/Penguin Books (Stated 1st Edition, September 1974). Oversized (14.5" x 11" x 1", 2 pounds) softcover, 318 pages. Acceptable condition only, with age wear and closed tears at edges of covers (archivally mended). Small tears at the head and tail of backstrip. Pages toned, but clean and unmarked. Text pages have small dogears at the top and bottom corners.… Read more about this item

THE BITTER BIRD: THE HUMOR MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS was published six times yearly by students of the University of Kansas during the 1940s. Heavily supported by local merchants, the magazine is filled with great local ads. Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas (1st Edition, December 21, 1948). Single-issue college magazine in rough condition,… Read more about this item