Search Results: Michigan from Trench Books

Detroit: Wayne State Univ, 1969. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Minor shelfwear, a nice sound and clean copy illus with B&W photos. 410 pgs., indexed.

New York: Harper & Bros, 1910. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good. Light wear to edges, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear and small tears to edges, rubbing and soiling; complete. A romance of the Great Lakes Region, several B&W photos of Mackinac Island.

New York: Brentanos, 1891. Gray Cloth. Fair/No Jacket. Frances Brundage. Covers are worn and quite soiled, loose binding, hinges intact. This book contains extensive information on the life of baby Margaret Louise Strauss, born in Feb 1904 in Ann Arbor. Includes several photos and a lock of the little one's hair. How unfortunate that this volume left the family. We attempted to locate descendants in the Ann Arbor area, with no luck.

Flint, MI: Citizens Commercial & Savings Bank, 1971. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. Minimal shelfwear, clean and unmarked. The story of Citizens Bank of Flint, Michigan. Many photos of the region, bank officials, and auto industry execs.

Monroe MI: Monroe County Library System, 1990. Plastic/spiral. Very Good+/Good+. Superb condition, clean and unmarked."Favorite recipes by favorite authors", from Steve Allen to Dr. Ruth, approx 100 well known authors/personalities. Compiled as a fund raiser by the Monroe County Library System in Michigan.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1946. First Edition . Green Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Bumps to top corners, light shelfwear, clean and unmarked. Price clipped jacket shows wear to edges and corners. Limited "Home Town Edition", signed by the author on an extra half-title page, just after the flyleaf. Illus with B&W photos.

Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Book shows foxing to boards, bumps to corners and ends - probably a reading copy only. Jacket is worn, chipped at spine ends, soiled on back, not price clipped. Mr. Bingay was a columnist for the Detroit Free Press in the 30's and 40's (the things he must have known!) Included are a few clippings of his columns found in the book. Inscribed to Mary Richards. Illus with B&W photos.

New York: David McKay, 1958. Green Cloth. Good+/Fair. Fading to edges of covers, gift inscription on flyleaf. Jacket complete, quite worn at edges, soiling to back, price clipped. A story for young people about logging in the early days of Northern Michigan.

New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First Edition . Red Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good. Light foxing to foredges, otherwise unmarked. Jacket shows light soiling, minimal wear. "Autoworkers and the American Dream - An Oral History". Illus with B&W photos.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: McGraw Hill, 1963. Book Club (BCE/BOMC) . Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Clean and unmarked; jacket shows wear to edges and corners. Great novel about a small Michigan village's July 4th celebration in 1916 - at the end of the "Good old days".

Michigan State College Press, 1953. Orange Cloth. Good/No Jacket. A worn but sound copy, prev. owner's name crossed out at top of front pastedown. Text is clean and bright.

Chicago: Goldsmith, 1934. Illustrated Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Wear to edges, binding loose, pages quite yellowed. Published by the Evening News Association of Detroit. "Daily menus and recipes providing wholesome and attractive meals at a minimum cost". "Including recipes for the mixed drinks popular among modern hostesses".

Franklin MI: McCarthy Enterprises, 1982. First Printing . Spiral - Metal. Very Good. Light wear to soft covers, clean and unmarked. Nice collection of recipes from various restaurants throughout Michigan. Color photos. Inscribed by the author inside the front cover.

Flint MI: Flint News-Advertiser, 1944. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Light soiling to front cover, otherwise sound and unmarked. "Looking Forward-and Other Poems", states "Vol. 4" on spine, decorative blue cloth. A collection of poems by a former mayor of Flint, Michigan. Mostly related to patriotic subjects, or family life.

New York: Oceana, 1960. Green Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minor edgewear, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows edgewear and rubbing. Thorough biography of the popular multi-term Michigan governor. Afixed to the flyleaf is a bookplate that appears to be signed by Gov. Williams, but may possibly be printed.

G.W. Pepper Communications, 1996. Plastic/spiral. Good+/No Jacket. Light wear to edges, unmarked. A collection of recipes from the "Michigan Gourmet" public television program. Spiral bound, paperback; 104 pages.

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1936. Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minor wear at edges and corners, endpapers yellowed, clean and unmarked. Jacket quite worn at edges and corners, 2" tear top right front, not price clipped. This is a reprint that was originally published by the Bank of Manhattan, for private distribution. A brief history of Michigan, illus with B&W photos.

New York: Harper & Row, 1961. Revised Edition . Burgundy Cloth. Good+/Good+. William Thomas Woodward. Bumps to lower corners, small stains at base of spine. otherwise a sound copy, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows wear at edges and spine ends. A comprehensive history of the state, with many B&W photos. Indexed; with a chronology covering 1608 thru 1960. Detailed bibliography.

Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1943. First Edition . Tan Cloth. Very Good/Good. Minimal wear, light soiling. Jacket shows wear to edges, rubbing. One of several novels written by Dan Patch, who was the Chief of Police in Ypsilanti.

Lansing MI: W.S. George, 1875. Brown Cloth. EX-LIBRARY/No Jacket. Complete but with a loose binding (no loose pages), wear and tear at spine ends, wear to edges. A part of the Connecticut State Library for 120 years. "Extracts From the Message of Governor John J. Bagley with Official Reports and Documents". Thirteen different reports on the laws, with untold numbers of facts and figures, of the State of Michigan. Several hundred pages. Reports include: State Prison, Reform School, County Jails, Insane - Deaf - Dumb & Blind, etc. Library stickers inside both covers, numbers written at base of spine, otherwise unmarked.