Kansas - Local History from heytotobooks

Relatively Searching, Hamilton, KS (1991). Set of two softcover books, 434 pages total. Book I (Books A, A1, B, C & D 1856-1895). Book II (Books E, F and G 1895-1917). Both volumes include a Table of Contents and Name Index. Greenwood County, in the southeast part of the state, is in a region featuring gently rolling plains and tallgrass prairie.… 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

ABOUT THE BOOK: A childhood on the Kansas prairies in the 1930s springs vividly to life in the detailed memories of Gail Martin. Her simple accounts of long ago school days, celebrations and family life are a treasure. Travel back in time to life in the Flint Hills during the Great Depression, and the time leading up to World War… Read more about this item

ABOUT THE BOOK: Born in 1924, Clyde Owen Martin grew up in a Kansas farm family, then worked in all aspects of the oil field from roughneck to driller to production manager. This book of family memories celebrates his 85 years of life and his pioneering Kansas family. Clyde died in 2012. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Clyde's wife, GAIL LEE MARTIN (1924… 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Calvin W. Gower, "Kansas Territory and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush," unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Kansas, 1958.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

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

Lawrence, KS: The Regents Press of Kansas (1st Edition, 1980). Hardcover in very good condition with gold cloth boards and dust jacket, 467 pages. Dust jacket is in rough condition, with heavy shelf wear, several closed tears and chipping to the edges, and a 1" open tear at bottom front of spine; backstrip is sunned; damp stain to front cover.… Read more about this item

Self-published (2011). Like new trade paperback, 174 pages. Inscribed by author. Flexible, high-gloss laminated cover. About the Book: Perry Rubart, born in 1931, has seen many changes in his lifetime—personally as well as in this country. In this book, Perry describes his childhood in the Flint Hills of Kansas during the Depression era, his young adulthood in the throes of the… Read more about this item