Search Results: Michigan from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Michigan: the author, 2002. First edition. Hardcover w/glossy pictorial boards. Very good. Octavo (standard size). SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the title page. Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. 209 p. w/ illus., bibliography (of a sort), and unnumbered pages of an index. A survey with many anecdotes of aviation activity around Bay City, Michigan over 50 years. Uncommon.

Ann Arbor: Eyry of the Eagle Publishing, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Tall quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of dj and boards. 208 p. w/ many color illustrations. A second look at Ann Arbor from the air, 12 years after the first. Uncommon.

Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, Inc., 1967. Reprint of 1939 ed. . Hardcover. Very good/very good. Thick octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, a bit more so to dust jacket. 501 p. w/ lyrics, musical notation, list of informants, bibliography, index to ballads. Dozens of songs from Michigan, including child ballads, Many of the songs were based on or directly from British ballad broadsides.

Detroit, MI: Banker's Club of Detroit , 1905. First edition. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, no dust jacket issued. Beveled edges to boards, covered in yellow cloth. Gilt titles to cover and spine. Covers of boards soiled. 107 p. w/photographic portraits of various members. Includes a short history, agendas, addresses, menus, music, reports etc. All meetings seem to have been held at the Hotel Cadillac. Founded n 1897.

1972. Second printing. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dj issued. Old price in ink marked out. SIGNED and inscribed by the author on the biographical sketch page. 309 p. w/illus., index. A thorough history of what is now the Bay Creek/Erie area of very southeast Michigan, right on the border of Ohio near lake Erie.

Agricultural College, Michigan, 1898.. Pamphlet. Very Good. Very good staple-bound pamphlet. Browning along the edges of the covers and a bit of creasing to the corners of the covers. Pages are also a little browned but not brittle. Front cover has blue marks (colored pencil?) by first article. 39 pages with illustrations. Includes the following articles: "A Sketch of the Original Distribution of White Pine in the Lower Peninsula with Map," "Present Condition of Forests and Stump Lands," "Reforesting Stump Lands," "Meteorology of the Forests," and "Forestry Legislation."

[ Detroit ] : [ printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb ], [ 1933 ] . First edition. Pamphlet. Very Good. Staple bound in light cream covers with brown text. Some wear and light brownign to edges of covers. SIGNED at top corner of cover by "C. W. Angell", a Univ. of Michigan sculptor and museum artist for 30 years, best known for the Pumas he designed for the entrance to the old UM Museum of Natural History in Ruthven Hall. 16 p. w/6 two-toned illustrations of Michigan Murals. Uncommon.

Fennville, MI: Fennville Herald, 1983. First edition. Oversized Paperback. Very good. Thin quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. A couple brown spots on front cover. 64 p. w/ b&w illus. Covers history and anecdotes about the Fennville Michigan area, the western "fruit belt" half of Allegan county.

Brighton, Michigan: Brighton Area Historical Society, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Tall quarto. (oversize) Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 496 p. w/many b&w illus., bibliography, index of names. A scattered but interesting history of the first hundred or so years of this Michigan town.

Sutton's Bay, MI: Sutton's Bay Publishing, 2011. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. 344 p. w/ endnotes, index, b&w illus., a few maps. A look at the place and people of Grand Traverse, and how the war affected their lives and livelihoods.

Detroit, MI: Detroit Mounted Police Flower Fund, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. A small nick in the book cloth at the top edge of the front board. Missing dust jacket. SIGNED and inscrined in gold ink by the author on the first free endpaper. Separate one page addendum laid in. 320 p. w/ many b&w photos, one foldout. A warm survey of this Detroit Police force unit by one of its own.

1950. First edition. Hardcover in red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Fair without dust jacket. Quarto-sized (bit oversized). Wear to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and corners of covers and scuffing to covers with fading and staining on back cover. Spine is rolled. Name of previous owner written on front free endpaper. 191 pages with ads, illustrations and lists of personnel.

Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo ( standard size ). Very slight wear to edges and corners of dust jacket and boards. 269 p. w/illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index. A biography of business man and Michigan secretary of state Stearns, reviewing his accomplishments and the roll both paternalism and Social Darwinism played in his work.

University of Detroit Mercy Press, 2003. First Trade paperback printing. . Trade Paperback. Very good trade paperback. Light wear to edges of covers with somr minor curling on corners of covers and slight scuffing. Upper corners of first few pages are lightly creased. "101" written in yellow marker on inside of front cover. Otherwise, text is clean and unmarked. Tight binding. 312 pages with illustrations, notes, authors' biographies, and index.

Clare, MI: Edgewood Press, 1991. 2nd printing. Hardcover in full cloth. Very good. Tall octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. 483 p. w/ a who's who in Clare county in the 19th centiry, bibliograpy, long index. A detailed history of the early period of this north central Michigan county, with great lumber and railroad activity. 

Ann Arbor: University Activities Center and Sigma Dela Chi Professional Journalistic Society, January 1967. First edition. Softcover with glossy covers. Very good. Squareish octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners. Cover made with a circle in center to show the orange and black "BS*" on the cover page. 44 unnumbered pages of text interspersed with b&w illustrations and 1 small map of campus from the 30s. A fun history of UM from the 60s, before the campus protests began in earnest. Interesting anecdotes on elephant racing, football betting scandals, suden automobiles, and even surprise caskets found during building construction. Suprisingly uncommon.

Calumet, MI: Roy W. Drier, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards, more so to dust jacket. Dj also has creases and small tears at edges. 304 p. w/b&w illus. Another collection of tales from the copper country of Michigan.

Ferndale Historical Society, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good octavo hardcover in blue binding without dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to heel of spine and slight scuffing to covers. 273 pages with illustrations and index. A nice history of Ferndale, Michigan.

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo (standard sized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. No dust jacket issued. xii, 240 p. w/map, endnotes, select bibliography, index. A discussion of the racial conflict over WWII worker's homes in Detroit in this federally built housing area, a far less violent precursor to the larger race riot in 1943

Holly, MI: Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. Hulet-Bravender Post No. 5587 , 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thin quarto (oversized). In an interesting dark, textured binding with gilt title on the front, no title on spine. Some wear to edges a bit more at head and heel of spine. Corners have been worn thru to the cardboard. Intereior is Approx. 130 unnumbered pages. Includes gold star servicemen, as well as surviving veterans. Most have photo portraits and brief service records (induction, branch, discharge, date of death, etc.), with just names included where no photo or service record could be found by time of publication. Scarce.