Search Results: Minnesota from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Northfield: Mohn Printing Co, 1939. Reprint. Soft cover. Good. Printed wraps. Reprinted from the 1895 Edition of Robber And Hero. 38pp. Illus. Worn at extremities; abrasion & square paper price patch on lower front corner & some stain on back. Sound stapled volume. Good. Very scarce. cf 6-guns 1087, 150 #78.l.

New York: Wittemann Brothers, 1882. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1st printing. Oblong green cloth over blind-stamped, decorated boards, 3 1/5" x 5", gilt-lettering. Pencil notation giving year, "1870," but printed info in back listing other booklets have 1880 & 1882 pub dates. A series of folding lithos "from photographs by Louis Glaser's Process." Further described, "Souvenir Albums, containing Photo-Views of All Notable American Scenery," etc. Double-page image of "Suspension Bridge over the Mississippi," and 21 other images either full page or several to page. Printed at bottom of publisher page is imprint of Chas. D. Whitall & Co., Booksellers in Minneapolis. Two page list of cities done by the publisher & other locations published. The illustrations are divided in two sections & the second section is loose & laid in, can probably be carefully reattached. Moderate wear to covers. Scarce.

Washington: Robert Farnham, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st printing. Hardcover, blind-stamped paper over boards. 215pp + 1p ads. Goodspeed said, "An early Minnesota book and, aside from Government surveys, one of the earliest accounts of Dakota before its establishment as a territory." Bibliographically noted is that there was apparently a map in a later edition; not in the 1st edit, although Howes A253 claims one. Wear to top backstrip; minor wear to other extremities. Vg. Very scarce.

Minneapolis: T. S. Denison & Co, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Fine/Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 215pp. Footnotes in rear. Bibliography. Index. Presentation signed by Spangler on ffep. The author was Assoc. Prof of History at Macalester College, St. Paul. Intro by Carl T. Rowan, Deputy Ass't Sect. of State, Dept of State, Washington, D. C. "Published in co-operation with the Minnesota Historical Society Committee for the Study of the Role of the Negro in Minnesota History and the Minnesota Statehood Centennial Commission." Covers early immigration, the territorial period & early statehood, and several blocks of years 1850 - 1961. Fine in somewhat edgeworn, but complete dj. Uncommon & scarce signed.

St. Paul: Smalley, E. V. (Editor) and Northern Pacific Railroad, 1894. First Thus. Soft cover. Collectible Good. Vol. XIII, No. #11. St. Paul. Original issue. Folio 13 1/2" x 10 ¼". Illustrated. Abundant adds. The Northern Pacific used this publication to promote western lands and progress. Articles: "A Trooper's Life," " A French Village in Manitoba," "Minnesota for Farming Settlement,", "Solid St. Paul," etc., thus showing the railroad promoted their interests both south and north of the border with Canada. Inside is a short report on wild horses. On an inside photograph has been stamped in purple ink a Northern Pacific Railroad stamp bearing the name of passenger agent Wm. N. Mears, Boston. This copy good with cover splits at fold about 3" both top and bottom. Short edge tears. Slightly soiled.

Minneapolis: Gov't Printing Office & Smithsonian, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Good. 1st printing. 1/2 leather & cloth boards. 184pp. Illustrated with nice photogravures. Family copy with unusual custom bookplate on the front paste down of the author's son & daughter-in-law, Frank and Alice Warren, which has three half-tone photos on it showing a cabin, a lighthouse, & a forest road. On the frontispiece (showing a stream & some trees) there is a space for an inscription, this one being the author's presentation to Alice, his daughter-in-law, & dated Aug. 10, 1914. This book is a superb memoir of early timber cruising in northern Wisconsin & Minnesota beginning in the 1870s. A remarkable life as a woodsman who eventually became what I believe to have been a leader in the industry in that Great Lakes area. The leather joints have been repaired and are holding well, but note some deterioration at head & toe of spine. A good, tight copy. This book was printed on beautifully textured from Italy.

n.p.: p.p. & Fairmont Photo Press, 1983. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good+. 1st printing. Pictorial stapled wraps. 37pp. Illustrated with drawings. The author grew up in southern Minnesota & this is a frontier Minnesota item. He has 4 pages devoted to the James Gang & the Northfield robbery. Galpin's great-uncle, Teenus Galpin, joined a detective agency according to this account & worked undercover as a drunk tending James' horses at their hideout. The author also has a page on the Tuttle Carver Fight. Browning to 2 facing leaves from former lay-in; faded across top of front cover, else Vg. Very scarce.

Winona: p.p., 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. 1st printing. Brilliant gilt-stamped & gilt-pictorial dark green cloth. 694pp. Frontispiece: author. 2 maps (section of Franquelin's map of the Miss. & Chippewa Rivers; section of Buffalo Co. 2pp of collected portraits of officers & executive committee of the Winona County Old Settlers' Association. General Index has 10pp of names. fos of Walter Hoge on ffep & his simple library sticker on front paste down indicating that he bought this book in 1905 for 50 cents. There is some interesting information on this man on the internet, assuming it is the Hoge of Idaho. The beautiful mountain on the front cover looks all the world like Mt. Rainer, but index says it is "Wa-pa-ha-sha, or Cap of Papasha, now Sugar Loaf", which is a rocky pinnacle overlooking Winona. On the front cover is a 1/4" spot; barest trace of wear to cover corners. Vg+ condition. Very scarce.