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Kobenhavn og Kristiania: Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. 1908 date on title page. Bound in marbled boards and leather spine with gilt spine lettering against red label. Text block edges are marbled. Prior owner bookplate of Herman Gimmestad on the inside of front cover and his name handwritten on first front endpaper. Light rubbing and scuffing to cover. Hinges are tight. Text unmarked.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000. Second Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Photographs. Bound in blue boards with spine titles stamped in gilt. Second printing, July 2000 (stated). Signed by the author on the Heartland Literary Society bookplate, which has been affixed to the front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. All four corners bumped, the uppers more so, otherwise the book itself has no flaws. There are two dust wrappers, both price-clipped, the outer one of which has a slightly rubbed rear panel. Hinges solid, binding square. A clean, tight copy, with the jackets now in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

London: Max Parrish & Company, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Color Illustrations. Very good book in a very good dust jacket with just a touch of light wear. Volume has 4 full page color illustrations and a map as well as musical notation and dance instructions.

Barse and Hopkins, 1915. Hardcover. Very Good. Clare Angell. Original format, bound in red cloth with white cover illustration and lettering, and biwing on spine with white spine lettering. Hinges are tight. Pictorial endpapers. 4 full page glossy illustrations which includes the frontis. Prior owner bookplate on reverse side of free endpaper. Corner tips worn. Some fraying at head of spine. The interior lists of books list only the first 4 books of 1915 with 'the rest in preparation'. The Big War Series

Henderson Nebraska: Service Press, 1982. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hortense P. Wilson. Very good hardcover book, bound in green with gilt cover and spine lettering. Nebraska map endpapers. Hinges tight. Text unmarked. Signed by the author on the title page. Stated First Edition, First Printing on the copyright page with handwritten #599 indicating this is a limited numbered edition although a statement of limitation is not found in the book. The dust jacket has chips and wear along the upper edges with a large chuck of 3 inches by 1 inch missing from the upper rear corner of the dust jacket.

Boston Mass: Lee & Shepard, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. This is 'The Young Shipbuilders of Elm Island' by Elijah Kellogg and published by Lee and Shepard. 1871 date of the title page. Copyright 1870. Bound in orange cloth with gilt design and lettering on spine, somewhat faded but still legible. Hinges are tight. Corners bumped and tips worn through. Some rubbing to cover. Prior owner name on first blank page The endpapers are listings of other juvenile series. There is only one title after The Young Shipbuilders of Elm Island and it is The Hardscrabble of Elm Island)

New York: Ives Washburn, 1928. First Edition (NAP) . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. deV. Lee, Manning. Bound in red cloth with titles and decorations stamped in dark blue. No additional printings. 252 pages; decorated endpapers. Volume two in Kempton's two-volume Jock Holiday Series. With four illustrations on coated paper by Manning deV. Lee, all present. The cloth shows only very light wear at the extremities, with a hint of fingersoil to the center of the front cover and spine. Hinges solid; binding square. Paper only very faintly toned. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Bowling Green State University, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Hardcover with faint pencil marks of original price on front free endpaper . Fine dust jacket.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1937. First American Edition (stated) . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photographs. Bound in blindstamped blue cloth with spine titles stamped in gilt. "First published in 1937" stated, with no additional printings. With 16 photographs. An interesting pre-WWII London guide, which makes interesting reading even at this late date. The cloth shows only a faint dulling of the spine lettering. Hinges solid; binding square. The paper shows only a hint of marginal toning; there is no foxing present. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 1929. Reprint . Three Quarter Leather. Very Good-/No Jacket. Norwegian language. Bound in three-quarter leather with marbled boards. The spine has titles and decorations stamped in gilt, with Norges National Litteratur, indicating this volume is likely part of a set. 244 pages. The boards show mild edgewear; the leather is moderately rubbed, with the upper corners a bit frayed. The endpapers have light marginal toning, and the front pair are a bit soiled. Hinges solid, binding square. With the bookplate of Norwegian-American collector Herman Gimmestad to the front pastedown, otherwise unmarked. Laid in is a brochure from 1949 advertising the complete works of this author in a 12-volume set. A clean, tight copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Penn Publishing, 1914. Hardcover. Good. R.L. Boyer. This is 'An Army Boy in Pekin' by Captain C.E. Kilbourne , and published by Penn Publishing. Title page date is 1914. There is a Christmas 1914 inscription on front endpaper. There are 7 glossy illustrations including the frontis. The hinges are intact. Original format with small scuffing to the cover applique, and some rubbing along edges of cover. Mild creasing to spine.

Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Co. ( W. Nygard), 1905. Hardcover. Very Good-. 1905 date on title page. Cover stated 2det oplag. Illustrated paper covered boards with a cloth spine. Cover illustration of child carrying a dog. Light rubbing to cover. 1st 10 pages have small 1/8th inch brown spots along upper edge. Bookplate of prior owner Herman Gimmestad on the inside of front cover.

Nebraska Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1959. Original Wraps. Very Good. Original printed stapled wraps; 7 pages. ASCE Directory; Nebraska Section and Southwest Branch. The first issue of this apparently short-lived periodical. The leaves show a center crease and marginal toning. Clean and unmarked. Scarce.

Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society, 1965 Original printed stapled wraps; pps. 259-389. "Mormons, Nebraska and the Way West" by Mortensen; "A Round Trip to the Montana Mines: The 1866 Travel Journal of Gurdon P. Lester" by Martin; " To Reclaim the Wilderness: The Immigrant's Image of Territorial Nebraska" by Zabel; "The Nebraska State Historical Society in 1965" by Kivett, plus treasurer's report, book reviews (irrigation, native vegetables, missions) and index. The wraps are rubbed; rear cover has a date received stamp; all contents clean, tight and unmarked. . Original Wraps. Very Good-/None Issued. Illus. by Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Periodical.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1987. First Edition . Trade Paperback. Very Good-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade softcover, uncorrected proof in plain printed wraps. Volume 1. Light edgewear with a small scuff at the head of the spine; a trace of soil. Corners bumped. Clean and unmarked. Uncommon in wraps.

Detroit: Five Star/Gale, 2009. First Edition (stated). . Pictorial Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Bound in pictorial boards with matching dust wrapper. First edition, first printing, (stated), with the full number line present. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. A near fine copy with just a hint of edgewear, in a dust jacket with a bit of light creasing to the front panel (no rips, chips or clips). Clean and tight; jacket in mylar. Debut novel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Kristiania: Alb. Cammermeyers Forlag, 1907. Hardcover. Very Good-. Bound in original brown boards with black lettering and green cloth spine. There is a small 1/2 inch old paper label on the lower edge of front cover. The front free endpaper has a 1&1/2 inch oval stamp with 'Gale College, Gainesville, Wis.' inside the oval. The endpaper and title page has '839/1190' handwritten. The inside of the front cover has the bookplate of noted Scandinavian collector Herman Gimmestad. Hinges are tight. Text is unmarked. The past pages have a section on George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. In Norwegian language

J.B. Lippincott, 1913. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. M. Leona Brackett. This is a first edition with the 1913 title page date and the matching 1913 copyright page with 1st printing of March 1913, and no add'l printings listed. Very good condition, clean and bright, bound in green with gilt title of ribbon on front and gold lettering on spine. Corners square, hinges tight. Color glossy frontis.

U.S.A.: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 1990. Hardcover. Very Good/VG-. very good condition hardcover, clean and unmarked. Hinges tight. Clean and bright dust jacket with very small touch of wear at head of spine.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Tiskem A Nakladem Ant. Novaka. Hardcover. Fair. In Czech language. Bound in red cloth with black design in corners of cover and black rule border to front cover. Cloth worn through at corners tips. Fraying at spine ends. Crack between title page and front endpaper. Pages browning. Undated but apparent late 19th century or early 20th. A worn but intact copy. A book on water treatments with line drawings.