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Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1927. Soft cover. Very Good. very good condition softcover with uncut pages. Prior owner bookplate of Herman Gimmestad on the inside of the cover cover. In Norwegian

Kristiana: J.W. Cappelens Forlag, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good condition hardcover with paper illustrated cover. Green border design on front cover with blue lettering on cover and green lettering on spine. Hinges are tight.Prior owner, Herman Gimmestad, bookplate on the inside of the front cover. Text unmarked.Pages shows mild tanning.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977. Second Printing (stated). . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good+. Photographs and Map. Bound in gray and red cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Second printing. Signed and dated October 25, 1979 by the author on the title page, otherwise unmarked. Not personalized. A fine copy. The price-clipped dust wrapper has just a touch of edgewear, with with a 1/4" chip from the lower edge of the rear panel. The rear panel is mildly toned. A clean tight copy; jacket in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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, 1943. Soft cover. Very Good+. Photographs. Original stapled printed wraps; pp. 213-288. Contents are primarily tributes to the recently deceased Addison E. Sheldon, Nebraska historian and editor of this periodical for many years, but also include the final installment of " Music of Pioneer Days" by Miriam Stanley Carleton-Squires; "Early Music of Brownville" by Sallie L. Furnas; and "Correspondence on Musical History" by Lucy Manville House and Agnes Aksamit. The photos include a rare view of Scotts Bluff. Just a touch of edgewear. A clean, tight, unmarked copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Photographs and Map. Bound in gray and red cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Full number line present; no additional printings. Former owner's signature to the half-title, otherwise unmarked. The cloth shows no wear, but the fore- and top edges show moderate freckling. The dust wrapper has just a touch of edgewear, with no rips, chips or clips. Clean and tight; jacket in mylar.

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.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Bound in black boards with spine titles stamped in silver. Full number line present. Debut novel. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page, dated 5/92 in Omaha. The volume is otherwise unmarked. The boards show a touch of edgewear with a light bump to the lower front corner. The dust wrapper has no rips, chips or clips, but does shows faint rubbing and a touch of soil to the mostly white surface. A clean, tight copy, with the jacket now in mylar.

Omaha: Abattoir Editions / The University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1991. Soft cover. Near Fine. Color Woodcuts By Karen Kune. Clean and bright, unmarked, tightly bound. Limited to an edition of 500. Softcover with two double page woodcuts by Karen Kune. The upper corner of the front cover is not actually creased, but shows a shallow beginning of a fold.

Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Humanities Council, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. very good condition softcover, clean and bright, tightly bound.

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1995. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Photographs. Very good book in a very good dust jacket, clean and bright. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper. Below that is an unrelated Xmas gift inscription.

Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1897. Hardcover. Very Good. R. B. Gruelle. Two-tone green cloth with titles stamped in gilt. 90 pages with 6 illustrations. Matching dates (1891) to title and copyright pages, but 1897 to the publisher's catalogue at the rear. With a 30-line handwritten poem entitled "Spring" and the author's initials (JWR) to the verso of the front endpaper and the half-title. The poem is actually an early version of "When the Green Gits Back in the Trees". The poem would be added to later editions of this work, but does not appear in this volume. This version has "In the spring" in the first line, as opposed to "In spring" in the published version. Several words in this version were changed in the published version to reflect Riley's use of dialect. For example, Riley's use of the word "swet" in line 24 of the published version is "sweat" here. This copy does list "The Flying Islands of the… Read More

Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1911. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Photographs. Very good condition hardcover. Bound in green cloth with gilt front cover lettering. Small 1/2inch white spot on lower edge of front cover. Hinges are tight. Bookplate of prior owner Herman Gimmestad on the inside of the front cover. Loaded with photographs of early settlers including B.J.Muus, and many others. In Norwegian

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Photographs. First edition with the Scribner "A" on the copyright page. Inscribed and signed by the author 'Warmly yours, Hubert R.Cornish. Dec 31st". Very good condition, tightly bound, unmarked text.

Philadelphia: David Mckay, Publisher, 1907. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Green Book With Red Lettering On Cover With Gilt Square On Front. Gilt Lettering On Spine Is Still Bright. Hinges Are Tight. 1907 Gift Inscription. The Front Free Endpaper Has A 4 Inch Tear At Base; See Photo. This Include Scuff At Base Of Half-Title Page. The Half Title Page And The Blank Page With Gift Inscription Has Brown Tape On Hinge. See Photos.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1940. First Edition (stated). . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Graef, Robert A.. Bound in tan cloth with titles and decorations stamped in blue. 265 pages. First edition, with corresponding 1940 dates to the title and copyright pages and a one in parentheses (1) on the final page of the text. With a frontispiece and ten internal illustrations, both full and partial-page. The cloth shows light edgewear with just a touch of soil. Former owner's name inked to the front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked. A bit of offsetting to the endpapers, but the hinges are solid and binding is square. A clean, tight copy of this third title in the author's "Cooper Lake Series". Mattson & Davis 20700. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

U.S.A.: Chiron Pubns, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. crisp.clean and bright, unmarked. Softcover

U.S.A.: Chiron Pubns, 1992. Soft cover. Fine. crisp.clean and bright, unmarked. Softcover

Washington: United States Civil Service Commission, 1958. Reprint . Soft cover. Very Good. Bound in stapled wraps; 52 pages. Probable reprint with the covers having the appearance of a photographic negative. Contents clean, tight and unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Oslo: Skandinavisk Kulturforlag, 1946. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. very good condition hardcover book, clean and bright. Hinges tight. Text unmarked. Bookplate of Scandinavia collector Herman Gimmestad on the inside of the front cover.