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Time Special Edition. Franklin D.
Roosevelt; The Power of Leadership
2018 - Brand New
Single Issue Magazine
Publisher: Time, Topix (2018)
ASIN: B07K5FZ3BR
Time Magazine 2018 Franklin D
Roosevelt The Power of Leadership.
Wonderful book in a chaotic time for
politics and America.
Writing to his fellow Democrats in
the 1920s, Roosevelt noted that
their party could not hope to return
to power until the Republicans led
the nation "into a serious period of
depression and unemployment." The
Great Depression soon brought a far
longer and deeper period of woe than
F.D.R. foresaw. But the crisis of
the 1930s also provided an object
lesson in the relationship between
economic danger and political
opportunity.....
A More Secure America
It's old news that F.D.R.'s New Deal
did not end the Depression. On that
score, there was little difference
between Roosevelt and Herbert
Hoover. But unlike Hoover, F.D.R.
seized the occasion to shape a
legacy of durable reforms. For that
accomplishment — along with winning
World War II — historians routinely
rank him among the greatest
Presidents.
Brand new, never read. Please email
with any questions prior to
purchase. Great gift idea for the
political junky.
Shop No. BOC11584 $8.00
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Minnesota's Irish 1984 Stated First
Ed. by Patricia Condon Johnston
Stated - First Edition
Publisher: Johnston Pub. Inc. Afton,
MN. 1984
ISBN 10: 0942934075
92 pages -- 9.25" by 6.25"
Subject: Irish in Minnesota
The Irish have played
extraordinary roles in Minnesota.
St. Paul's Irish image dates from
per-territorial days (and derives
from scoundrels and prizefighters
along with politicians and
churchmenn.)
Except for the immigrant
Irish and their progeny, Minnesota
history would have been quite
different. Taken from front
un-clipped flap.
Green Dj with photo of musicians on
front. Blue boards decorated with
shamrocks both outside and on
endpapers. Very attractive book.
Near mint both book and jacket.
Dustjacket with very minor edge
bumps to corners. Book is as new.
Tight, crisp and sound, unmarked
copy. Price is present on back
cover.
Item No.
BOC11795 $48.00
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The Minnesota merry-go-round, or, A
diary of the Legislature of the age
: The best that money could buy 1935
by Rome Roberts
First Edition
Publisher: Minnesota Merry Go Round
(Author) 1935
210 pages -- 9.25" by 6.25"
Subject: Minnesota Politics
Rome Roberts's colorful diary of the
49th Minnesota Legislature that met
in 1935
In 1935, Rome Roberts published a
210 page diary of the 49th Minnesota
Legislature titled The Minnesota
Merry-Go-Round. The title was
derived from “The Washington
Merry-Go-Round,” a popular column by
Washington journalist Drew Pearson
that was published in newspapers
around the country from 1932 to
1969. Roberts’s book was profusely
illustrated with drawings and
portraits of legislators that made
it an easy if not compulsive read.
Illustrations by the International
Photo-Engravers Union of North
America - I.P.E.U. Wonderful
typical of the era cartoons and
illustrations.
Scarce copy of a very interesting
book. Cloth decorated covers.
Please email with any questions
prior to purchase. Great gift idea
for the political junky.
Item No. BOC11665 $65.00
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Certain Trumpets: The Call of
Leadership – 1994 by Garry Wills,
Simon & Schuster
Paperback: 336 pages -- approx.
size: 9.25" by 6"
Publisher: Simon &
Schuster / Literary Research,
Inc. 1994
ISBN: 067165702X
What makes a leader? How do we
identify effective leadership, and
how should—and shouldn’t—that power
be used? In Certain Trumpets, Garry
Wills presents portraits of eminent
leaders including FDR to Ross Perot,
King David, Martha Graham, and many
others, offering an illuminating
lens for studying society and
ourselves.
Dividing these portraits into
sixteen leadership categories
ranging from military to
charismatic, intellectual,
rhetorical, and elected, Wills
highlights what makes each of his
subjects unique, crafting along the
way a distinct and incisive
definition of leadership as a
reciprocal engagement between two
contrasting wills that serves to
mobilize us toward a common good,
and explaining why leadership is so
often a contentious and emotionally
charged subject.
Very nice softcover that looks to be
hardly read if ever. Very slight
bump to lower right corner of
cover. Please email with any
questions.
Item No. BOC11555 $22.50
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The Death of a President: November
1963 First Edition by William
Manchester
Publisher: Harper & Row 1967
(Stated First Ed.)
Paperback: 710 pages -- approx.
size: 9.5" by 7.75" by 1.75"
As the world still reeled from the
tragic and historic events of
November 22, 1963, William
Manchester set out, at the request
of the Kennedy family, to create a
detailed, authoritative record of
the days immediately preceding and
following President John F.
Kennedy's death.
Quote from book;
“Dear
John — It will be many
years before you understand
fully what a great man your
father was. His loss is a deep
personal tragedy for all of us,
but I wanted you particularly to
know that I share your grief—You
can always be proud of him —
Affectionately Lyndon B. Johnson
The Author:
William Manchester (1922-2004) was a
hugely successful popular historian
and biographer whose books include
The Last Lion, a three-volume
biography of Winston Churchill;
Goodbye, Darkness; A World Lit Only
by Fire; The Glory and the Dream;
The Arms of Krupp; and American
Caesar. He received the National
Humanities Medal and the Abraham
Lincoln Literary Award
Very nice
copy for your collection of "lost
generation" authors and books, or
the lover of American history.
Great addition to your own
library.
Book is in very good unmarked
condition with blue cloth covers
showing slightly bumped corners and
minor fading to upper and lower
edge. Deckled page ends. DJ shows
handling wear and an upper edge with
tears at the edge.
See photos and email with questions.
Item No. BOC11800 $47.00
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The Betrayal of America 2001: How
the Supreme Court Undermined the
Constitution and Chose Our President
Publisher : Bold Type Books; 2nd
Paperback Edition
ISBN-10 : 156025355X
ISBN-13 : 978-1560253556
Paperback : 192 pages --
approx. size: 7.75" by 5"
During the course of American
history, wrongful events have
occurred and certain Americans have
stood up and spoken out against
these wrongs: Tom Paine, Edward R.
Murrow, Daniel Ellsberg. Vincent
Bugliosi takes his place in this
special pantheon of patriots with
his powerful, brilliant, and
courageous expose of crime by the
highest court in the land. When an
article he wrote on this topic
appeared in The Nation magazine in
February 2001, it drew the largest
outpouring of letters and e-mail in
the magazine's 136-year history,
tapping a deep reservoir of outrage.
The original article is now
expanded, amended, and backed by
amplifications, endnotes, and the
relevant Supreme Court documents.
Very nice like new condition. Looks
as if never read. Interior spotless.
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purchase. Thanks
Item No. BOC12109 $11.50
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American Buffalo in Transition –
1970 First Ed. by John A. Rorabacher
Paperback: 142 pages excluding Index
Publisher: North Star Express, St.
Cloud, MN; 1st edition 1970
ISBN-10: 0878390073; ISBN-13:
978-0878390076
Approx. Size 9 x 6
inches
Subjects: American bison
Between 1800 to 1890 the free
roaming buffalo in North America
were reduced from an estimated 60
million to fewer than 20 wild bison
in the U.S. " Now there are over
17,000 bison living under varying
degrees of supervision ranging from
private herds to restrictive zoos to
large parks where the animals can
again roam freely. This book is an
attempt to present a survey of the
decimation of the bison; to consider
the major factors that have
influenced the growth of the buffalo
population since 1990." From the
book's preface.
"This book provides specific details
regarding the destruction of the
American Buffalo in the USA. The
writer provides numbers to support
his report. The information this
book presents is disturbing but we
need to know it!" via online review.
Wonderful hardcover book, like
new...looks un-read with like dust
jacket. Illustrated endpapers with
two original bookmark and file card
from bookstore from original
purchaser in Winnipeg. Excellent
illustrations throughout book.
Please email with any
questions.
Shop No. BOC11514 $22.50
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Creativity, Conflict &
Controversy 1979: A History of the
St. Paul District, U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers by Raymond Merritt
Publisher: US Army Corps of
Engineers St. Paul MN - 1979
First Edition (With original
letterhead of issue)
Army Corps of Engineers from
1866-1975
Size: 10.75 inches tall by 8 1/2
inches wide
"The history of the St. Paul
District is the history of the upper
Midwest and its growth over more
than century," according to Col.
(Ret.) Forrest T. Gay, III, the
district's 49th district engineer.
Published in 1979, the book examines
the history of the district,
starting with the area's exploration
by the French and ending with the
Corps' work up to the mid-1970s.
Merritt details the major projects
undertaken by the district,
including dam construction on the
waterways in the Upper Mississippi
Valley.
But far from just a list of
projects, the book examines the
various conflicts and controversies
surrounding the Corps, such as
environmental issues. As Merritt
wrote in the preface, "The current
popular image of the Corps - good,
bad or indifferent - is largely
myth." By making this book available
to the public through the internet,
we hope to be able to inform the
public of all the Corps has done for
the Upper Mississippi Valley and the
Corps' role in their lives.
Original letterhead for the sale of
the book. Edge of this letter shows
wear as it was at one point probably
sat inside book lengthwise.
Beautiful condition with only the
slightest handling wear. Pages are
clean with no markings from previous
owners, except for the original
sales slip inside showing original
cost. Binding is square and
tight. Boards are clean.
Please see photos and email with any
questions.
BOC11816 $110.00
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Rare - Modern Sagas: The Story of
the Icelanders in North America.
Fargo: North Dakota 1953 by
Thorstina Walters
Published by North Dagota Institute
for Regional Studies (1953)
229 pages -- approx. size measures
9" x 6"
Foreword by Allan Nevins. Locale:
Alaska; North Dakota; North Dakota.
Keywords: Western America,
Icelanders, Icelandic Americans,
Immigrants, Settlement
"The author was an impressive woman,
born the daughter of Thorleifur
Joakimson (Americanized to Jackson)
and Gudrún Jónsdóttir in Pembina
County, North Dakota. They were of
the Icelandic stock who had come
first to Manitoba and thence to
Dakota Territory.
Manifesting the Icelandic penchants
for educational attainments and
literary pursuits, Thorstina Jackson
taught school, became a social
worker, and took graduate work at
Columbia University. There, and
thereafter, she pursued studies in
Icelandic history, culture, and
emigration. King Christian X of
Denmark and Iceland awarded her the
Knights Cross and Order of the
Falcon. She was an active organizer
of the Icelandic Millennial
Celebration in 1930." Remarks found
online.
Light-blue cloth boards in very good
to excellent condition for the age.
Dustjacket is very nice as well with
only the mildest signs of edge
wear. Wonderful gift piece for
the North Dakota, Icelander history
buff or your personal library.
Please see and enlarge photos and
email with any questions prior to
purchase. Thanks for looking.
boc11535 $58.00
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Bess W Truman Hardcover – 1986 by
Margaret Truman HC w/ Jacket
Paperback: 445 pages
Publisher: MacMillan; 1st edition
1986
ISBN-10: 0025294709
ISBN-13: 978-0025294707
Approx. Size 9.3 x 6.4
inches
Margaret Truman, author of
well-received murder mysteries and
of the biography Harry S. Truman,
here pays tribute to her mother.
Drawing on personal recall as well
as on some 1500 letters mostly
written by Bess but also several
hundred of Harry's Margaret Truman
recreates her parents' lives: the
difficult passages when Harry and
later Bess were swamped by political
pressures, as well as the homespun
pleasures of their long marriage.
Seldom have the terms of marriage at
its most enduring been so touchingly
revealed as in these pages, which
include dozens of rare photos.
This concise book makes very
interesting historical reading.
Hardcover with dust jacket which is
covered by plastic to protect.
Good condition but ex-library with
the usual markings. Photos show the
worst. Overall very clean interior
with no writings. Please email with
any questions.
boc11337 $7.00
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Presidents of our United States L.A.
Esler, Rand McNally 1935
Publisher: Rand McNally 1935
Size: 6 3/4 inches tall by 5 1/2
inches wide
Another great historical book for
kids. This book tells about all the
presidents up through Franklin
Roosevelt.
It includes large full page black
and white photographs of each
president, and has a short bio on
each of them.
The covers show some rubbing and
slightly bumped corners and spine
ends. Considered very good
condition with no writing or torn
pages.
Please see photos and email with any
questions.
boc11070 $10.00
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WE AMERICANS; National Geographic
Coffee Table Book Profusely
illustrated ~ 1981 3rd Print
Hardcover: 456 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
Society; 3rd Printing 1981
ISBN 10: 0870441345
ISBN 13: 9780870441349
Approx. Size: 12.2 x 11 inches
The fight for independence and the
devastating Civil War. The Baby Boom
and the birth of the computer age.
Gold rushes and oil gushes. Through
engaging text and lavish images, We
Americans follows the day-to-day
lives of the people and events that
shaped our nation, with a focus on
the country's unprecedented mix of
immigrants and how they transformed
this nation. We Americans features
14 essays by best-selling, Pulitzer
Prize-winning writers and 300
illustrations and rarely published
archival photographs, artwork, and
maps, plus a 200-year timeline and
an index.
No jacket issued. Large, heavy
oversize, additional postage may be
required. Wonderful color & B
& W illustrations &
photographs. Very good condition
with slightly bumped corners and
spine ends. Very little handling
wear. Extremely interesting book on
American history.
Please email with any
questions.
boc11361 $13.50
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Time Capsule / 1929: A History of
the Year Condensed From the Pages of
Time Paperback – 1967
Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Time Incorporated (1967)
Approx. Size 8 x 5.5 inches
This book encapsulates the major
stories of 1929 as reported by Time
Magazine in that year.
History of the year condensed from
the pages of Time including The
Stock Market Crash, Hemingway's A
Farewell to Arms, Rookie Durocher of
the Yanks, St. Valentine's Day
Massacre, Stalin's Exile of Trotsky
and more.
This concise book makes very
interesting historical reading.
Black and White illustrations.
Very good with slight bumped
corners. The spine is cocked
slightly. Clean interior. No
writings that I've seen.
boc11246 $6.00
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The Lake Superior Country in History
and in Story 1996
by Guy M. Burnham
Publisher : Paradigm Press; 1996
ISBN 10: 1889924008
ISBN 13: 9781889924007
Approx. size : 9 x 6 x 1.25 inches
-- 464 pages
Guy Burnham was a newspaper
columnist whose compilations of
historical facts, personal
remembrances and on-site accounts
are the heart and soul of this
fascinating book.
Originally published in 1929, this
massive volume is a complete living
history of the Lake Superior region
from the days of the first white
settlers through the summer of 1928
when President Calvin Coolidge
visited the area to hunt and fish.
Includes rare poetry and photos.
The book is in very good condition.
Paperback. Shows a very minor light
crease to lower right corner. No
writings. Is as new except for the
crease mentioned. Wonderful gift
idea for the Minnesota, Wisconsinite
historian.
Please see photos and email with any
questions.
BOC12004 $175.00
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Our Liberty Bell – HC w/ Jacket 2007
by Henry Magaziner, John O'Brien
Stated First Edition: 32 pages
Publisher: Holiday House - 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0823418923
Approx. Size 8 x 9.5 inches
"This attractive book brings the
history of the Liberty Bell alive
for young readers. The original
bell, imported from England in 1752,
made a dull sound and immediately
cracked. Recast twice at an American
foundry, the bell rang to announce
one important event after another:
the end of the French and Indian
War; the Boston Tea Party; the
battle at Lexington; the signing of
the Declaration of Independence; the
end of the Revolutionary War; and
the death of George Washington,
among others. Even after the bell
cracked in 1843, it served as an
important national symbol, traveling
across the U.S. in the late 1800s to
help reunify the country. In
different periods, abolitionists,
suffragists, and civil rights
leaders adopted the Liberty Bell as
their symbol. Students tend to learn
and subsequently categorize
historical periods as separate
"units," but here Magaziner wisely
creates an overall sense of unity
through history. Written with
clarity and verve, this uses the
central image of the bell to tie
together the events it heralded and
the causes it came to represent.
O'Brien's imaginative and sometimes
witty ink drawings illustrate with
finesse".
This concise book makes very
interesting historical reading for
youth or adult alike. Black and
white illustrations.
Looks to be never read. Very good to
excellent. Tight and wonderful book
with very good dust cover.
boc11313 $16.00
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The Strange Death of President
Harding from the Diaries of Gaston
B. Means - A department of Justice
Investigator. 1930
Guild Publishing, New York; 1930
1st Edition, 8th Printing.
This book purports to tell of Gaston
Means' activities as an investigator
for the U. S. Department of Justice
when Harry Daugherty was
Attorney-General. This book purports
to tell of Gaston Means' activities
as an investigator for the U. S.
Department of Justice when Harry
Daugherty was Attorney-General. It
is replete with lengthy quotations
of people Means says he came in
contact with while working for Mrs.
Harding. These cannot be accurate
unless Means had them taped--long
before the days of Watergate. No
doubt Nixon would have been enamored
of Means, who did "dirty tricks" so
successfully--according to him.
Would make for an interesting read
considering today's politics. Covers
show every blemish due to flash,
doesn't appear to be this scuffed to
the naked eye. A stamp of sorts is
partially seen on spine. Hardcover,
good condition, tight and intact.
Rough edged original pages, last few
longer than others. Someone took ink
to three pages in the beginning
including title page and I find one
interior page. Not large scribbling
but enough to be annoying. Toned
pages due to age with some slight
soiling.
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purchase. Thanks
boc11049 $27.00
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Gangs of America 2003: The Rise of
Corporate Power and the Disabling of
Democracy First Ed. by Ted Nace
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2003
ISBN 10: 1576752607
ISBN 13: 9781576752609
Approx. size: 9.5" by 6.75" -- 281
pages
The corporation has become the core
institution of the modern world.
Designed to seek profit and power,
it has pursued both with endless
tenacity, steadily bending the
framework of law and even
challenging the sovereign status of
the state.
In Gangs of America he details the
rise of corporate power in America
through a series of fascinating
stories, each organized around a
different facet of the central
question: “How did corporations get
more rights than people?” Nace
traces the events and people that
have shaped the modern corporation
to give us a fascinating look into
the rise of corporate power.
Very good condition with original
jacket. Book is like new outside of
a title and reference in the index I
see highlighted. If more I haven't
found but overall in beautiful
condition.
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purchase. Thanks
BOC12018 $14.50
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See, I Told You So 1993 by Rush
Limbaugh (American Political Radio
Host)
Publisher: Pocket Books / Simon
& Schuster
ISBN 10: 067187120X ISBN 13:
9780671871208
364 pages -- Approx. Size 6 x
8.75 inches
Political hardcover without dust
jacket.
The controversial conservative radio
personality presents a collection of
his observations on the Clinton
administration, liberals, and other
topics.
The right-wing radio personality
presents a collection of the
observations conservative
listeners have come to love on his
nationally broadcast radio program
in a work that attacks liberals
and President and Mrs. Clinton.
Very good vintage condition other
than some spotting to front cover,
may be able to remove. Looks un-read
otherwise. Spotless interior.
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purchase. Thanks
BOC12400 $16.50
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Big Cotton: How a Humble Fiber
Created Fortunes, Wrecked
Civilizations, and Put America on
the Map 2005 by Stephen
Yafa
Publisher: Viking, 2005
ISBN0670033677,
9780670033676
398 pages --
Approx. size: 8.5 by 6"
Cotton has touched off wars and
revolutions, inspired astonishing
inventions, laid waste to entire
ecosystems, and enslaved untold
millions of people. Today, cotton
is, if anything, more preeminent
than ever and at the center of
raging global controversies.
By the mid-nineteenth century, the
vast plantations of the antebellum
South, the grim mill towns of New
England, and the soot-spewing
factories of the English Midlands
were knit together in a global
system of exploitation and
enslavement—all of it based on
cotton. When Marx and Engels
composed The Communist Manifesto,
they chose cotton manufacturing as
the prime symbol of capitalism run
amok. Beautifully researched and
written, Big Cottontraces the
cultural, economic, and social
history of the “world’s friendliest”
fiber from the kingdoms of
Mesopotamia to the Gap.
Illustrated with wonderful artwork
and photos. Excellent gift idea.
Beautiful condition with original
jacket. The book looks as new but
does show a black remainder mark
next to spine underneath. Jacket is
in very good condition.
BOC12292 $16.50
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything
Your American History Textbook Got
Wrong - 1995 James W. Loewen
Publisher The New
Press
Publication date 1995
Pages 383
ISBN
978-1-56584-100-0
Size: 9 1/4 inches tall by 6 inches
wide
Subject: American history,
Historiography, Native American
history, African American history
It critically examines twelve
popular American high school history
textbooks and concludes that the
textbook authors propagate false,
Eurocentric and mythologized views
of American history. In addition to
his critique of the dominant
historical themes presented in high
school textbooks, Loewen presents
themes that he says are ignored by
traditional history textbooks
Very good condition with slightly
bumped corners. Original paperback.
A revised hardcover edition was
released on April 1, 2008. Interior
spotless with maybe one or two pages
with turned corners. Very good.
boc11244 $14.00
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Pioneer History Stories. Second
Book. Pioneers of the Mississippi
Valley 1906 by Charles A. McMurry
Publication date 1906 (First
published in 1891)
Publisher Macmillan Company
Collection Americana
Very nice early edition of the
Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley
by McMurry. Early map across from
Title page.
Approx. measurements 6" x 7.5",
218pp. MAPS; North America;
Explorations of Joliet and
Marquette, La Salle and Hennepin;
Routes of French Explorers and
French Posts; The West in the
Revolutionary War; Florida with the
March of De Soto and his Men.
"The early history stories of the
Mississippi Valley are proving more
and more acceptable to teachers and
children in intermediate grades. The
present volume of Pioneer Stories
was first published in 1891, and
after many editions has been revised
a second time, and now takes it's
place as the second of a series of
three volumes of American History
Stories."
Very good condition with only
slightly bumped corners and spine
ends. Flash shows some spotting to
covers. Red cloth with black
lettering. Interior spotless with
great illustrations and pic of
Abraham Lincoln. Small stamp of date
July 18, 1907 on front enepaper.
boc10944 $55.00
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Nineteen Hundred Fifty (1950)
Premium List Beltrami County Fair,
Bemidji ~ local business
advertisements
Bemidji Minnesota, Beltrami County
History 1950
Original and Rare 125 page booklet
full of Beltrami County Fair
Supporters....many, many local and
close are business's. Fantastic
piece for the family or town or
county history or genealogy.
H. A. Krebs, President.....Bemidji
N. A. Welle, Vice
President....Bemidji
G. E. Guyan, Secretary....Bemidji
and many more Beltrami county Fair
Association Board of Directors
20th Century Shows * 15 Rides * 8
Shows * 40 Clean Concessions ~ Many
of these business's are closed or
altogether gone but what a fun look
into the past of a town that used to
be all about the tourist and
hallmark the wonder's of such a
large Country get together.
B&W illustrations throughout.
Clean pages. Burnt orange paper
covers with black illustration and
letter that show a bumped upper
right hand corner. Otherwise this
8.5 by 5.25" booklet is in excellent
shape.
boc10882 $114.00
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American Theocracy 2006: The Peril
and Politics of Radical Religion,
Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st
Century - Kevin Phillips
Publisher: Viking; First Edition
2006
Paperback; 480 pages
ISBN-10 : 0739471880
ISBN-13 : 978-0739471883
Size: 9 inches tall by 6 inches wide
Phillips describes three central,
unifying planks in the Republican
coalition. The first is oil. The
second is radical religion. The
third is unprecedented levels of
national and consumer debt.
An explosive examination of the
coalition of forces that threatens
the nation, from the bestselling
author of American Dynasty
In his two most recent bestselling
books, American Dynasty and Wealth
and Democracy, Kevin Phillips
established himself as a powerful
critic of the political and economic
forces that rule—and imperil—the
United States, tracing the ever more
alarming path of the emerging
Republican majority’s rise to power.
Now Phillips takes an uncompromising
view of the current age of global
overreach, fundamentalist religion,
diminishing resources, and
ballooning debt under the GOP
majority. With an eye to the past
and a searing vision of the future,
Phillips confirms what too many
Americans are still unwilling to
admit about the depth of our
misgovernment.
Very nice condition. Spotless
interior, pages are clean and
bright. Binding is tight. Looks
barely read. Only very slight bumped
corners.
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questions.
BOC12146 $16.50
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Headwaters of the Mississippi by
Captain Willard Glazier 1897 ~
Account of the Discovery and
Location of its True Source in a
Lake Beyond Itasca
Headwaters of the Mississippi : -
Comprising Biographical Sketches of
Early and Recent Explorers of the
Great River, and a Full Account of
the Discovery and Location of its
True Source in a Lake Beyond Itasca.
This intriguing book was written by
Civil War veteran and former
prisoner-of-war Captain Willard
Glazier, who, upon concluding his
service for the Union cause,
embarked on a career of adventure
and exploration on the American
frontier. In the years following the
war, Captain Glazier completed a
one-man journey on horseback from
Boston to San Francisco. He also
personally organized and commanded
two pioneering expeditions in search
of the true source of the
Mississippi.
HEADWATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI is a
historical chronicle of Mississippi
River exploration, from the early
discoveries of De Vaca and Desoto,
Marquette and Joliet, to Captain
Glazier's own controversial
expeditions in 1881 and 1891, in
which he set out to pinpoint the
true source of the Mississippi and
dispute a popular claim that the
river rises from Lake Itasca.
Chicago / New York: Rand McNally
& Company, Very Good+/no dust
jacket. Copyright date 1892; date on
title page 1897. 7½" x 5½".
Binding is tight & square, no
cracking excepting on the bottom of
the front cover inside, this front
cover gives slightly and back inside
endpapers show even surface tear
along decorated paper. Pages
are clean and tight. Frontis
portrait of Willard Glazier. 527
pgs. with index. Illustrated with
black & white plates, map.
Beautiful book.
Very good condition with dark blue
cloth boards with gold and silver
illustration on cover (map of Lake
Glazier and Lake Itasca), gold
shield title box and Indian paddling
canoe on spine, black lakes map
illustration on rear board. Beveled
board edges. (Flash does not do the
piece justice).
boc10938 $58.00
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The Rise of American Civilization:
One Volume Edition Hardcover – 1930
by Charles A. & Beard, Mary R.
Beard
Macmillan; First edition
Originally published in two volumes
(The Agricultural Era in 1927 &
The Industrial Era in 1930); this
one volume edition, with its new
introduction, was published in 1930.
B&W illustrations throughout.
Clean pages. Moderate tanning due to
age. 800 pages plus index. Black
cloth cover that shows moderate
wear. Bumped corner. Decorative
embossed stamp on front.
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questions.
boc10821 $24.00
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The Bunker Hill Monument Adams and
Jefferson...Two Orations by Daniel
Webster; Riverside Literature Series
#56
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin &
Company
Publication Date: 1893
"As early as 1776, steps were
taken toward the commemoration of
the battle of Bunker Hill and the
heroic death of Dr. Joseph Warren,
who was buried upon the hill the
day after the action. At the time
of the battle, Warren was a
major-general in the Continental
Army. The Massachusetts Lodge of
Masons, over which Warren had
presided, applied to the
provisional government of
Massachusetts for permission to
take up his remains and to bury
them with the usual solemnities.
The Council granted this request,
on condition that the government
of the Colony might have an
opportunity to erect a monument to
his memory. A eulogy on General
Warren was delivered, but no
measures were taken toward
building a monument. --On the 11th
of November, 1794, a committee was
appointed by King Solomon's Lodge,
at Charlestown, /1/ to take
measures for the erection of a
monument to the memory of General
Joseph Warren at the expense of
the Lodge. "
Beautiful and very early edition for
your original series. This being
number 56. 15c. paperback at the
year of publishing.
Normal toned pages due to age. A
very light penciling is the only
writing at the blank first page
stating Hilda Halverson, "Touch Not,
Taste Not, Handle Not" -- obviously
this previous owner had a sense of
humor. Slightly bumped corners, some
discoloration by staples, still
tight and nice edition.
Please see photos and email with any
questions.
Item # Boc11671 $23.00
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