n.p. LegendScape Publishing, 2019. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st or early printing (unknown) print on demand book. Pictorial wraps. 170pp. Illus. Sasquatch investigator Lyle Blackburn's well-researched book on yet another area / region of sightings. Some curl to front cover (common to some p o d books. Fine.
ST. Louis: Historical Publishing Co, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt and red-stamped decorated cloth. 252pp + 148pp. Illustrated, including total of 12 plates in color. Only a good copy due to cloth worn off at all cover corners and some of the two bottom edges. Fraying to head.....
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Green cloth. 282pp. A I says, "Country Cured is an autobiographical memoir by Homer Croy, an American author known for his nostalgic, witty depictions of Midwestern life, particularly Missouri farm culture. It highlights his transition from a Missouri farm boy.....
NY: Duell, Sloan Pearce, 1949. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Cloth. 313pp. Index. Pencil fos/gift on ffep. Laid into this copy is a short, but wonderful T.L.S. (typed letter signed) by Croy on a small-sized printed letterhead, the Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth (England). It has his corrections in ink, but reads.....
St. Louis: N. D. Thompson, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt and blindstamped 8vo cloth. 383pp. Illus. Verso of last leaf advertises, with a portrait, the Life and Marvelous Adventures of Wild Bill, The Scout, etc. also published by Thompson. This important book is a good copy that has.....
Columbia: U of Missouri Studies, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth. 153pp. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. Map showing "Early Railroads in Southeast Missouri." Fine, not dj as issued. Laid in is printed long bookmark from Jefferson National Expansion book store from which your bookseller purchased this book many years.....
Scott City MO: Eisleben Lutheran Church, 1973. First Thus. Hardcover. Original copy. We do no know if others were issued other years. Three-ring red plastic binder with nice illustration on front over 7 1/4" x 9". Unpaginated. A very-well produced cookbook, nicely designed & printed. I know these women could.....
Kansas City: Burton, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 207pp. Owner's ink name/address stamp (3) on endpapers. At least part fiction it appears, nevertheless poignant stories by one of Missouri's most noted historians. Trace of wear to extremities; fine in scarce dj with chip on bottom of front panel.....
St. Louis: Missouri Hist Museum, 2011. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Trade pictorial wraps. 262pp. Illus. Sources. Index. Lawlessness & the law in Jefferson County, Missouri. Fine.
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, 1969, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth. 218pp. Lengthy bibliography. Index. A scholarly treatment. Fine in dj.
Cape Girardeau: SE Missouri State Normal School, 1900. Soft cover. Banquet card printed on card stock, folded 3 1/2" x 3 1/2". The banquet of Southeast Missouri State Normal school took place at the St. Charles Hotel in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Inside the menu is printed. The printer was Cross.....
Cape Girardeau: Trinity Lutheran Church, 1979. First Thus. Soft cover. Apparently the first printing. Comb bound pictorial brown wraps. Various paginations -- a thick book. Each section with leading full-page drawing. Gift inscription inside cover at the top. Fine. Scarce.
Hannibal MO: Wig Comic Art Co, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing quite apparently. Pictorial cloth. 63pp. Illustrated with nifty hillbilly drawings. Signed "J J Wiegenstein" under author's names on title page, and wonder if "Wig" is nickname for Wiegenstein. This book is a bunch of down-home stories written in.....
Columbia: E. W. Stephens, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped cloth. 608pp. Illus. Abundant maps (folding + partial page county maps). Index. Presentation on front paste down from Roy D. Williams to Thos Evans. Additionally, the bottom one-half of the paste down has a description of the two family's relationship. It.....