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VIEWS OF DULUTH, MINN.

By: N/A

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto / Duluth, Minn., W.G. MacFarlane for S.H. Knox & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 30505

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Fair

Unpaginated (40 pp excluding covers), oblong (7" H x 9" D), purple paper covers with decorative gilt lettering on front. Undated, but c1910. One page of introductory text followed by captioned b&w photographs of streetscapes, schools, churches, commercial buildings, parks, docks, shipping, industries, scenery, etc. Some pages have two or more images. Interior - most pages have soft creases at top/bottom corner, soiling at top/bottom corners of first page with a tiny corner repair at bottom corner. Exterior - wear at top/bottom of spine icluding a 1/2" tear at bottom of spine, hea...
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ICE PALACES.

By: Anderes, Fred & Agranoff, Ann.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28683

ISBN: 0771598572

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

132 pp, oblong (9 1/8" H x 10 3/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour and b&w photographs, repro-ductions, architectural drawings. "The magical buildings illustrated in this pioneer study of a virtually unknown architectural phenomenon were truly built of ice, and they were said to shimmer with color and fire reminiscent of sapphire, topaz, and opal. In style they recalled medieval castles, Gothic cathed-rals, Russian palaces, and Art Deco fantasies. Many were huge, reaching as high as a 14 -story building and extending as long as a football field, but, of course, there's no...
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RURAL LIFE AND EDUCATION: A STUDY OF THE RURAL-SCHOOL PROBLEM AS A PHASE OF THE RURAL-LIFE PROBLEM.

By: Cubberley, Ellwood P.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin: 1914

Edition: Fifth Impression

Seller ID: 2358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

367 pp, small 8vo (7 5/8" H). Riverside Textbooks in Education. Brick-colored cloth with gold lettering on spine, blind stamped title block on front board. A study of rural schools, pre WWI, as part of the problems of rural living. Chapters: Changes in the Nature of Rural Life; New Rural--Life Conditions; Effects of these Changes on Rural Society and Rural Institutions; Effects of these Changes on the Rural School; Rural Life and Needs of To-Day; Some Worthy Examples of Rural Service; Fundamental Needs in Rural Education; Organization and Maintenance; The Teaching Equipment; The Reorga...
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FLAGS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. 3: STATE & VOLUNTEER. OSPREY MILITARY MEN-AT-ARMS SERIES 265.

By: Katcher, Philip.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Osprey: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25454

ISBN: 1855323176

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

48 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings, 8 pages of colour illustrations. Contents: Introduction; US Army Brigade Flags; US Artillery Battery Flags; Flags of the US Colored Troops; The Plates. Interior - small Christmas notation, date and signature in pencil on title page; light erased pencil mark at top corner of title page; otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor corner wear, minor rubbing.
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AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ARMIES. 4. STATE TROOPS. OSPREY MILITARY MEN-AT-ARMS SERIES 190.

By: Katcher, Philip.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: London, Osprey: 1992

Edition: Reprint.

Seller ID: 25458

ISBN: 0850457475

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

48 pp, 9 3/4" H. B&w photographs, drawings, 8 pages of colour illustrations. Contents: Introduction; Alabama; Arkansas; Connecticut; Delaware & District of Columbia; Florida; Georgia; Illinois, Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri, New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York, North Carolina; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Rhode Island; South Carolina; Tennessee; Texas; Vermont; Virginia; Wisconsin; The Plates. Interior - small Christmas notation, date and signature in pencil on title page; light erased pencil mark at top corner of ti...
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YANKS OVER EUROPE: AMERICAN FLYERS IN WORLD WAR II.

By: Klinkowitz, Jerome.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Lexington, University Press of Kentucky: 1996

Seller ID: 24966

ISBN: 0813119618

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

148 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "At first there were just a few, a scant seven Americans who in 1940 volunteered for the Royal Air Force in time to fly and fight in the Battle of Britain. One of them, a Minnesota farm boy named Art Donahue, lived long enough to write about it, and with his 1941 account ('Tally-Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire') began a series of memoirs that now number in the hundreds. (This book) examines more than one hundred narrative accounts of the air war over Europe written since 1941 by American flyers. The experience of combat inspired these men to combine exquisite de...
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THE GAME WE KNEW: HOCKEY IN THE SIXTIES.

By: Leonetti, Mike. Forward by Frank Mahovlich.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Vancouver, Raincoast: 1998

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27513

ISBN: 1551921987

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

118 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "The 1960s was a decade of major transition for the National Hockey League. Bitter rivalries were the order of the day, especially between Canada's two teams, as the Leafs and the Canadiens accounted for nine of the decade's Stanley Cup winners. The league doubled in size as new teams in St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Oakland brought hockey to new fans throughout North America. Aging superstars like Maurice 'Rocket' Richard passed the torch to the next generation of stellar players s...
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MESABI PIONEER: REMINISENCES OF EDMUND J. LONGYEAR.

By: Longyear, Edmund J.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, 1951, Ist ed.:

Seller ID: 572

116 pp, 8vo, hard cover. The evolution of the Mesabi Range from a wilderness, trackless and uninhabited, into the nation's greatest iron-producing area is one one of the most exciting episodes in Minnesota history. The author covers his experiences in helping develop the area from the sinking of his first diamond drill hole through to seeing the Mesabi Range emerge into one of the most highly industrialized section of Minnesota. Map eps. Illus. with photos from the period. Miunor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine Dust jacket has one chip on top edge of back panel and indents from papercli...
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PAUL MANSHIP.

By: Manship, John.

Price: $195.00 USD

Publisher: Abbeville, New York, 1989, first edition.:

Seller ID: 21776

216 pp, folio (13 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 1558590021 Beautifully illustrated in color and b&w. "From his sexy little bronze nymphs to his soaring golden 'Prometheus' at Rockefeller Center, the sculptures of Paul Manship have begu iled the public through much of this century. This dazzling monograph - as elegantly sophisticated as the artist's own oeuvre - celebrates the life's work of America's master of Art Deco.....As close to a jet setter as one could be in an e r a o f o c e an travel, Manship spent much of the early 1920s in Paris, where he was one of two Am...
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[TWO MINNESOTA MINING RELATED ITEMS]. 1. HIBBING MINNESOTA AND THE IRON ORE MINES. 2. WELCOME - TO THE MINNESOTA IRON ORE COUNTRY.

By: Nickoloff, Mrs. C.A., Elstad, R.T., Et al.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Hibbing / Duluth, Hibbing Daily Tribune / United States Steel Corporation:

Seller ID: 28923

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

1. Hibbing Minnesota and the Iron Ore Mines (with original shipping envelope) - unpaginated (34 pages including covers), 5 7/16" H x 8" D. Copyright 1947, Curt Teich & Co. 18 coloured b&w views (including centrefold), colour pictorial wraps. A short history of the village of Hibbing, Minnesota, with information on the mining industry. Concludes with two pages by Mrs. C.A. Nickoloff - "The Legend of King Hematite". 2. Welcome - to the Minnesota Iron Ore Country - unpaginated (16 pages including covers), 5 1/2" H x 8 1/2" D. No date (c1950). Sepiatone photographs, gree...
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GREG RUSSELL'S MODERN MERCHANDISING FOR MARINE RETAILERS.

By: Russell, Greg.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Progressive Sales, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, 1994.:

Seller ID: 22427

176 pp, 11" H, soft cover. B&w illustrations. "Do you want a stronger, more profitable marine retail business? How about an appealing, expertly merchandised store? A store that meets today's retail standards and today's sophisticated consumer ex pectations? (This) is the industry's first comprehensive guide to economical store renovation, marine merchandising, and promotion. It's the definitive business guide for today's marine retailer, clearly explaining a renovation and upgrad e p r o c e s s in simple, concise terms. Now you can take charge of your future, restorying healt...
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THE ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY PROJECT: THE STORY OF THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER AS AN INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY FOR WATER-BORNE COMMERCE.

By: Stephens, George Washington.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, Louis Carrier: 1929

Edition: Third impression.

Seller ID: 30063

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

460 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w plates, maps (3 fold-out) - collated. Colour map endpapers. Chapter headings: Treaties, Boundaries, Waterways, 1712-1929; Transportation and Communication; International Aspect of Arterial Waterways; St. Lawrence Waterway Project; History of the Negotiations of the St. Lawrence Waterway Project, 1832-1929; Canals of Canada and the United States; The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (Chicago Diversion); Alternative Water Routes to Europe; Power; Reflections; Appendices: Convention beween Canada and the U.S., 1929, regarding Preservation of Scenic Beauty of Niagara; Ge...
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PAUL BUNYAN: THE WORK GIANT.

By: Turney, Ida Virginia.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Portland, Oregon, Binfords and Mort: 1941

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27675

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Unpaginated (approx. 80 pp), 10 7/8" H. From the Colophon: "The first edition consists of three thousand copies, the initial 500 of which are numbered, and this is number _____." No number is inserted. Pictorial map endpapers, color illustrations throughout. "Paul Bunyan is America's very own folk character. He did not spring from the legends of our English ancestors, nor from the Indian myths, but like America herself - of which he is a symbol - he just grew. Paul, like our countrymen, started on the East coast - in the Maine woods to be exact. As the nation grew, so di...
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ARCHETYPES AND ARCHAISM. SPRING 2001. AN EXHIBITION. MARCH 20-29.

By: Weisbrod, Michael B.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd.: 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27384

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

103 pp, 4to (11 15/16" H). The catalog of the exhibition, beautifully illustrated with full page color photographs facing detailed descriptions of each artifact. Articles: 'The Spirit of Wu' by Professor Robert J. Poor, University of Minnesota, 'Conservation Report for an Eastern Zhou Dynasty Inlaid Bronze Hu and Cover', Conservation Report for a Late Shang Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessel, Guang'. Includes Chronological Table. Bumped at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing.
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