Search Results: Wisconsin from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Privately Printed, 1975 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. White paper wraps with photo on front cover, stapled through fold, 72, [1] pp. Light creasing to wraps. Memoirs of a Wisconsin native who spent his career working in construction in various capacities, and also had patents on several inventions. Mr. Ricci was born near Sprague, Wisconsin, grew up mostly in Cumberland, and spent the 25 years preceding this memoir in a suburb of St. Paul. Although not a polished production, his autobiography gives insight not only into his life, but also into the times and places in which he lived. Shipping weight 4 oz. in envelope.. Pamphlet. VG/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1971 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Printed paper wrapper textured to resemble cloth, sewn binding, xix, 200 pp, 41 illustrations, 31 maps, 2 diagrams, footnotes, glossary of Ojibway names, bibliography, chronology, index. Slight wear to edges of covers, crease to bottom corner of rear cover and last few leaves. Detailed and thoroughly documented history of the village of La Pointe on the western end of Madeleine Island. The village was an important fur trading outpost from the 17th century until the 19th century. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. 2nd ptg. Trade Paperback. VG+/No dj. 22½ X 15 cm.

Watertown, WI: Watertown Historical Society, 1967 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author on title page. Blue cloth, white titles on front board & spine, vii, 70 pp, 16 pp b & w illustrations not in pagination, bibliography. Pale blue DJ is faded except for flaps, has water spots on front panel and small edge tears; in Brodart archival cover. Author's inscription is dated 1968. The subject founded America's first public-school kindergarten in Watertown in 1856, and was a leader of the kindergarten movement. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . Fine/VG. 23½ X 15½ cm.

Rhinelander, WI: Pineview Publishing, 1979 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author on half-title. White covers with black titles, xi, 135 pp, 3 maps, 2 b & w portraits. Lightly rubbed, author's signature and a separate gift inscription on half-title, spirit-duplicated note projecting future volumes is laid in. This is a general history of the Rhinelander area from earliest times to about 1870. The author was a free-lance writer and Rhinelander area resident who undertook this project out of personal interest. Shipping weight 1 lb.. Trade Paperback. Near Fine/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

Watertown, WI: Watertown Historical Society, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Inscribed by author. Brown leather-textured cloth, gilt title & dec. on front board, 236 pp, b & w photos, bibliography, index. Spine cocked, bumps to top edge & corner of rear board. Warmly inscribed by author on recto of ffep. This is a history of Watertown, Wisconsin from its first settler in 1836 to the mid-1970s. Watertown was the site of the first kindergarten in the United States, founded in 1856 by Margarethe Meyer Schurz, a student of Friedrich Froebel. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

Whitehall, WI: Dan Camp Press, 1976 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Signed by Author. Beige paper wraps with brown titles & photo, viii, 118, [1] pp. Light soil, spine slightly cocked, slight wear. From the rear cover: "Wisconsin Life Trip is Wood's attempt to celebrate his family's and his friends' love affair with rural life in the Coulee Region. It is a celebration which utilizes oral history, which chronicles childhood antics, schoolboy mischief, and ethnic customs--the church lutefisk supper, "old cheese," Scandinavian understatement." At the time of writing Wood, later books editor for the Minneapolis Tribune, was an Augsburg College (Mpls.) English professor and columnist for the Tribune as well as the Whitehall Times. Shipping weight 1 lb.. First Edition. Wraps. VG/No dj. 21 X 13½ cm.

Wausau, WI: Marathon County Historical Society, 1977 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full green cloth, gilt titles on front board & spine, x, 414 pp, photos in text, chapter notes, bibliography, index. Slight shelf wear. Carefully documented history of Marathon County, Wisconsin, where Wausau is situated. Shipping weight 3 lbs. (International 2 lbs., 4 oz.). First Edition. . Near Fine/No dj. 23½ X 16 cm.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1947 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine, xiii, 202 pp. Extremities lightly bumped & rubbed, note on rear paste-down. Nine Nieman Fellows for 1945-6, all experienced journalists, looked at what was needed to make better newspapers. In addition to the editor, they were James Batal, Charlotte FitzHenry, Arthur W. Hepner, Frank Hewlett, Frank K. Kelly, Mary Ellen Leary, Cary Robertson, and Ben Yablonsky. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/No dj. 22 X 14½ cm.