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St. Louis, 1850. Very good.. Large folding map on two joined sheets, in total measuring approximately 25 x 46 inches. A couple of small separations at folds, light wear at edges. Scattered faint foxing. A rare, large format map that depicts the planned route for the "Alton & Terre Haute Railroad" through Illinois. Based on this plan and survey, conducted in December 1850, the Illinois legislature chartered the Terre Haute & Alton Railroad early the next year, and the entire line was completed in 1856. Under significant final stress, it was sold and reorganized into the St. Louis, Terre Haute, & Alton Railroad in 1862. The upper portion of the map shows the route of the proposed line between the two towns, which passed through Hillsborough, Shelbyville, and Charleston in central Illinois. A large section of the right-hand hand side provides a detailed topographical profile of the route, as compared to the level of the Mississippi River at the same latitude. The engineer responsible for the plan and map, William P. Crocker, was also the engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad, and worked on the Fitchburg and Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroads in the East. The lithographer, Julius Hutawa, was the first to establish a business in St. Louis, doing so in 1833, and he continued to be the only operation in town until the arrival of August and Leopold Gast in 1852. OCLC locates one copy, at the British Library; none in auction records.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Memorial Park Middle School, 1985. Softcover. Very Good. Structurally sound softcover copy, showing some shelfwear, sunning to spine and extremities, former price sticker, else clean and tightly bound. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Winston-Salem, NC: the Church, 1964. 12p., 6.25x9.5 inches, tables, very good report in stapled green pictorial wraps.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Bible College, 1960. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, minor shelf- and edge-wear. Embossed covers, Stuffed with tons of black-and-white photographs. Oversize. Greetings and salutations throughout. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Mt. Vernon, INdiana: St Johns Episcopal Church. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2005. First Edition; First Impression. Hardcover. Red leather-like cover with gilt print. History of this church located in Mt. Vernon, Indiana from 1855-2005. Extensive appendix, marriage records, burial records, bibliography, etc. Rare. ; Photographs, Charts, Tables; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 126 pages .
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New Haven, Indiana: New Haven High School, 1943. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Structurally sound, good-looking high-school yearbook, in this case the 1943 Mirage, from New Haven, Indiana. Moderately shelf-worn softcover boards, inscribed inside rear flap, else internally clean and still tightly bound. Stuffed with black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Overall, a sturdy copy. Laid in is a program from the 2003 60th Anniversary reunion of the 1943 high school yearbook. Stapled inside the rear flap is an alumni list. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: South Side High School, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Dust Jacket. Structurally sound, embossed hardcovers, covers and tips show moderate shelf- and edge-wear, but still attractive. Oversize. Previous owner's inscription at first free endpaper, else a remarkably clean copy. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Muncie, IN: Ball State University, 1967. Stapled pamphlet. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Covers a little rubbed at spine top, covers very slightly faded, and top outside corner of pamphlet a little bent but not creased. Otherwise square, tightly bound, and clean inside and out. "To participate in the competition, high school juniors must take an objective test, submit an autobiographical sketch and a sample of their writing, and produce a sixty-minute impromptu theme on a topic assigned by the National Council [of Teachers of English]. " Mitchell Daniels (now Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels) is represented by a perceptive essay on The Red Badge of Courage. 35 pp. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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New York: Committee for Constitutional Government Inc, 1944. Six panel brochure, very good condition, 3.5x7.5 inches. Brochure promoting Samuel B. Pettingill's book "For Americans only" which was published in 1944.
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DeKalb, Indiana: DeKalb Arts Council, 1980. Softcover. Very Good. Structurally sound softcover copy, showing some shelfwear, sunning to spine and extremities, etc., and signs of its former owner, but a perfectly serviceable copy. Pictorial covers. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Central High School, 1931. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fair/No Dust Jacket. Internally good-looking high-school yearbook, in this case the 1930 Caldron, from Fort Wayne, Indiana, but with paper backstrap chipped at spine head and foot, and with remainder split entirely along one edge, though still hanging on. Suede-like covers, black and pastel blue, moderately shelf-worn, but stuffed with black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Inscribed by previous owner. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Vincennes. Very Good. 1965. Softcover. Price marked out on front cover. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 112 pages .
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: South Side High School, 1939. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Structurally sound, embossed hardcovers, covers and tips show moderate shelf- and edge-wear, scuffing, smudging with white paint on front cover at bottom tip, but still attractive. Oversize. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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New York: Delta, 1989. Paperback. 274p., very good first edition, trade paper in pictorial wraps. Gay coming-of-age novel set in Terre Haute, Indiana. First novel.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lakeside Middle School, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Good. Sturdy softcover copy, covers shelf-worn, but pages bright and clear. Stuffed with tons of black-and-white and color photographs. No greetings or salutations. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lakeside Middle School, 1973. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Good. Sturdy softcover copy, covers shelf-worn, but pages bright and clear. Stuffed with tons of black-and-white and color photographs. No greetings or salutations. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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[Moxee, W.T., 1868. [4]pp., on an octavo bifolium. A fine 1868 letter from an Indiana emigrant to Moxee, in Yakima County of the Washington Territory. Benton Goodwin left Greencastle, Indiana, to hunt for gold in central Washington, and here writes home in order to report on his situation to a woman, Catharine Oliver, that he hopes to marry upon his return. It reads in part: "When I arrived here in this valley, there were some settlers here in 1865. But the persons are now estimated at about 300. They built the loghouses for themselves. None of any fine frame house is here. There are lots of Indians in the other valley close to me. They are good and friendly -- I am very glad of that -- I get the good prospects here.... I have been very busy at my good claim every day.... I will have the great deal of money in one or two years. My claim & cattle & grains are worth three thousand dollars.... You had been thinking of me that I was foolish to sell my farm at Greencastle Ind. But I have not spent all of money. I must save one cent as your husband." If the language in the letter seems somewhat odd, it is likely because Benton Goodwin was deaf. He travelled west from Indiana with his three brothers and other family in 1865, and was briefly taken captive by the Sioux en route, but was released supposedly because his signaling led the Indians to think him insane. The Goodwin family ranched in Yakima County, and sold cattle throughout Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, but Benton apparently traveled widely across Washington to seek out new gold strikes, and his letter references other prospecting efforts "over the Cascade Mountains." An excellent frontier mining letter from an unlikely prospector in the Pacific Northwest.
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Indianapolis: Berg Investment Corp, 1983. Magazine. 36p. includes covers, 5.5x8.5 inches, illustrated with b&w photos, ads for local bathhouses & bars etc., very good in stapled pictorial wraps. Early midwestern AIDS reportage and coverage of a string of murders of young gay men in Indiana from 1980-1983.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Bible College, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, shelf- and edge-wear, mostly dust-soiling, slight scuffing along edges. Stuffed with tons of black-and-white photographs. Oversize. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1972. 88p., wraps, illus.
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Indiana: Ball State Teachers College, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, minor shelf- and edge-wear. Embossed covers, gilt-stamped decoration. Stuffed with tons of black-and-white photographs. Oversize. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Bishop Luers High School, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good. Sturdy hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, but with soiling and spotting to covers and moderate edge-wear. Embossed covers, Stuffed with tons of black-and-white photographs. Oversize. Slight forward torque to spine. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Central High School, 1930. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Structurally sound, good-looking high-school yearbook, in this case the 1930 Caldron, from Fort Wayne, Indiana. Embossed boards, mildly shelf-worn, internally clean and still tightly bound. Stuffed with black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Inscribed name at second endpaper. Overall, a sturdy, attractive copy. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Lane Junior High School, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Good. Sturdy softcover copy, covers slightly shelf-worn, but pages bright and clear. Stuffed with tons of black-and-white and color photographs. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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Fort Wayne, Indiana: Indiana Institute of Technology, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, spine and binding tight, pages bright and clear, minor shelf- and edge-wear, slight scuffing along edges. Embossed covers, gilt-stamped decoration. Stuffed with tons of black-and-white photographs. Oversize. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
