192632 pages. Features: Fascinating news bits inside front cover; Woodrow Wilson Was Best and Worst Copy - his passion for accuracy conflicted with newspapermen who ignored serious things to ask him 'what he ate for breakfast' - part 3; Housekeeping in Our Paris Flat - how two Americans fared in the French Capital and "Got to Love Passy"; ; Never Separated a Single Family - open-door immigration specialists slander the United States Government - Rabbi Stephen Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, urges passage of the most liberal of all the liberalizing measures - the Perlman bill; Life and Death on the Screen - A.C. Pillsbury films bacteria and pollen in action - motion pictures of flower fertilization; What's the Matter With Jim? - the story of a boy who would only work when he thought it play; Mr. Ford's Page - interesting thoughts on the forces involved with prohibition; Editorials - major criticism of the World Court and claim that in Michigan a list of Americans targetted for assassination by communists has been found; Golf - Can You Pick the Champions? - Americans will attempt to capture leading British honors - article with photos of Glenna Collett, Francis Ouimet, Macdonald Smith, Walter Hagen, Watts Gunn, Long Jim Barnes, Bobby Jones and Robert Gardner; Lincoln's Murder - Amazing Man Hunt - John Surratt and Papal Zouave accused of the crime, who leaped for liberty over a hundred-foot precipice - article with photos of John Surratt, John Wilkes Booth and Mrs. Mary Surratt; What it Costs the Chinese to Worship Their Ancestors - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Is America a Nation of Coffee-Bibbers? - Its people drink upward of forty billions of cups of this seductive beverage each year, consuming more than half of World's Production; Union of Irish and Jews in recent 'propaganda' plays - Abie's Irish Rose, Kosher Kitty Kelly; Great Writers Who Have Failed as Novelists; Seeking to Know What the Earth is Made of - the work of Professor Stjepan Mohorovicic and others; When the Broker Breaks the Law; A Dance a Week - The Lancers, a graceful square dance - first two figures, with piano sheet music (to be continued); Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis, Oregon offers course in the guardianship of a real baby; The Jolly Old Pedagogue; Back cover features illustration of and quotation by Henry Thoreau. Small chip from fore-edge of front cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
192632 pages. Features: Wee, Timorous Beasties at Home - in the realms of fur and feather tiney creatures show their skill in nest building; Delaware Uses the Whipping Post - Are lashes on the bare back effective as crime prevention?; New Phases of Changing China - photo-illustrated article on how sedan chairs and moth-eaten donkeys are giving way to modern things; Have We an Educated Ministry? - only a minority of present-day incombents are from reputable colleges; Housecleaning in the Treasury - in 4 years there were 300 cases in which attorneys and agents practising before the Treasury Department were respondents in Suspension or Disbarment Proceedings; Parentage of Attic Strads - fake Stradivarius violins; Mr. Henry Ford's Page - 'of all parasites, the human species is the least tolerable'; Editorials - are we advising our students to be jellyfish?, Babies as Armament, Michigan judge thinks more speed with increase road safety, the American Psychiatric Association and paid vs. impartial opinion, Goodl Old Songs (and who profits from them), and American tourists need to learn flag etiquette; Under the White Tops with 'Gil' - in this first instalment, veteran showman Gil Robinson takes you into a world where clowns, camels and wild beasts are the actors; He Takes Tin Tacks From Tiny Throats - Dr. Dhevalier Jackson of Philadelphia has saved thousands of children; Patting the Lion's Mane - American woman says English men of letters are more interesting than American; How U.S. Treats its Diplomats - present conditions prohibit any man from attaining the rank of United States Ambassador unless he can supply great wealth to maintain the social obligations of the post - article with embassies; Chats with Office Callers; Tragedy of the Franklin Expedition - the realized the old dream of a Northwest Passage; I Read in the Papers; Dying Africa Makes Her Appeal - our supply of Africa's rich products will be lost if we do not eradicate her deadly diseases; A Dance a Week - Some More Terms; San Francisco Says "Shoot to Kill" - Notable decrease in serious crime results; Nice circus photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194690 pages. Features: Nice color Studebaker truck ad inside front cover; Photo of the NIM flying wing in flight; Nice Seabee airplane ad; There'll Come a Day (fiction); Atomic Age Navy - submarines may be the backbone of our future sea power; Escape at Noon (fiction); A Challenge to American Women - "American women are more cruel, more selfish and more material in outlook than American men"; Everything ShipShape (fiction); The Doctors Run the Show - the new Michigan plan offers veterans the best medical treatment in the world; You, Too, Can Drink Vodka (fiction); The Outraged Heart (fiction); Champagne Shower - Mitzi Green - article with many colour photos of ladies; Two of a Kind; Nice color one-page ad for the 1946 Ford Sedan Coupe; Running From Death - Charles Beaudry is America's greatest athlete; Nice one-page ad for the movid "Without Reservations" with photo of Claudette Colbert with John Wayne; Super color-photo centerfold ad for Schlitz beer shows hops being harvested; Nice one-page ad for movie "The Well Groomed Bride", starring Olivia De Havilland, Ray Milland and Sonny Tufts; The Happy Chance (fiction); Ad for movie "Her Kind of Man", starring Dane Clark, Zachary Scott and Janis Paige; Jungle Hoofer (fiction); Goodby, Berlin! - article with several color photos of war damage; Camel cigarette ad on back cover talks about how doctors enjoy their product; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Centerfold loose but present, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Book
1926Best.-Nr. 1236Houghton Michigan: G. P. Schubert 1926. Third Printed Edition. Publisher's Green Cloth Gilt Detailing. Very Good. A Very Good Book Presumed Issued without a Dust Jacket. Book is bumped and rubbed to extremities. Cloth is a toned and a bit scuffed. Front pastedown and flyleaf have some pencil notations. Text is unmarked. All plates present as are instructional materials included in envelope at rear paste down. Gutter is visible for last few leaves binding is otherwise tight and square. Hardcover. Slim Octavo. ii 3-82pp. Laid-In Supplemental Material. G. P. Schubert unknown
1936Best.-Nr. BK0067United States 1936. Photograph measuring 9 ⅜ x 7 ½ inches. With manuscript caption date stamp and later sticker verso. Some wrinkling to edges especially right. Excellent. A 1936 press photograph showing workers laying out and riveting the roof of a massive gas tank at Ford's River Rouge complex with cranes smokestacks and plant buildings visible beyond them. The image captures the Rouge at the height of its industrial power as a vast integrated manufacturing landscape with its own steel mill glass plant power plant docks rail connections and internal energy infrastructure. The caption identifies the structure as a 10000000-cubic-foot gas tank part of the unseen systems that made Ford's celebrated vertical integration possible. Visually the photograph is especially strong with the scattered workers dwarfed by the tank's broad surface and the distant factory skyline giving the scene the scale and abstraction of Depression-era industrial photography. 1 Remko van Hoek The Making of the Supply Chain: How Five CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Famers Shaped the Industry Epic Books 2024 39-42. . unknown
1936Best.-Nr. BK0067United States 1936. Photograph measuring 9 ⅜ x 7 ½ inches. With manuscript caption date stamp and later sticker verso. Some wrinkling to edges especially right. Excellent. A 1936 press photograph showing workers laying out and riveting the roof of a massive gas tank at Ford's River Rouge complex with cranes smokestacks and plant buildings visible beyond them. The image captures the Rouge at the height of its industrial power as a vast integrated manufacturing landscape with its own steel mill glass plant power plant docks rail connections and internal energy infrastructure. The caption identifies the structure as a 10000000-cubic-foot gas tank part of the unseen systems that made Ford's celebrated vertical integration possible. Visually the photograph is especially strong with the scattered workers dwarfed by the tank's broad surface and the distant factory skyline giving the scene the scale and abstraction of Depression-era industrial photography. 1 Remko van Hoek The Making of the Supply Chain: How Five CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Famers Shaped the Industry Epic Books 2024 39-42. . unknown books
2003Best.-Nr. BN171222Taylor & Francis Inc 2003. 2003. Softcover. Maple Animation Maple Animation John F. Alma College Alma Michigan USA Putz Taylor & Francis Inc paperback
Best.-Nr. 614301955M.E. Sharpe Incorporated . Hardback. New. pp. 320 Index 2nd Edition M.E. Sharpe Incorporated hardcover
Best.-Nr. 47910197-nnew. unknown
Best.-Nr. 0223J177753Paperback. Good. Baltimore: Armstrong 1850. Not a reprint. First edition. Good full leather 5 raised bands 12mo. Gilt design around front and back covers. Pages foxing. Considerable ext. scuffing. W M R MERRIMAN's stamp and one other reader's pencilled signature on FFEP. paperback
1953Best.-Nr. SHEL1310Chicago & Detroit: Rand McNally & Gil Schaefer 1953. First Thus. Soft cover. Very Good. 1st printing of this edition. Colorful folio stapled wraps 13" x 20". 20pp. Each map is pleasingly illustrated by vignette drawings of various wildlife species in different parts of the state. Thus on a given page's map you will find pheasant raccoon bunny rabbits coyotes wolves or fox grouse squirrels white-tailed deer bobcat black bear and various fishes in the adjacent Great Lakes. The front cover is yellow orange red blue and green & is illustrated with a fisherman & a hunter. In the middle is an arrowhead emblem with a Native American in it painting pictographs on a cliff side. Inside front cover: photos. First page is list of Michigan State Parks along with details such as Post Office Water Frontage Dominant Features of Uses Woods acreage etc. Other info is on this page including list of State Fish Hatcheries & Trout Rearing Stations. The next two facing pages present a full map of the state and a mileage table as well as index. Each succeeding page of maps have blocks of map information each one nicely illustrated in a similar manner as the vignettes on the maps. Last four pages is an extensive list of Michigan lakes 3pp. and Michigan streams 1p. The color back cover displays all of the fishes birds and mammals featured on the maps. Main advertising on the covers is of Mercury Outboard Motors & Gil Schaefer the distributor. The lower back cover has a triangular crease about 3" in. There is some brief staining to upper right edge of the front cover. Just a touch of stain on some edges inside. The back cover also has a short edge tear & light soiling. We consider this copy in very good condition. There is no writing and no marks of ownership on this copy. Very very scarce. Rand McNally & Gil Schaefer unknown
194556 Pages. Features: Cover photo of "Russia's Winter Army on the March" showing soldiers on skis; United States Lines ad inside front cover features Eliot Wadsworth of the Chamber of Commerce; Color-photo one-page ad for The Commercial Travelers Mutual Accident Association of America; One-page ad for Dumont televisions; Japan is Still a Dangerous Enemy - article with naval battle photos including a dramatic one-page photo of a U.S. rocket assault on Peleliu Island; The Delicate Balance to be Kept in Europe Demands Statesmanship; Poem to the leaders of the Allied Nations; Wonderfully illustrated article on Idlewild Airport (New York International Airport, later renamed in honor of JFK) by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia; Nice color one-page Celanese ad advertises their Lumarith plastic car parts; Harry Truman article on his new job as Vice-President; Article on music composer Richard Rodgers (with photo) explains that he writes musical amid office confusion; Lovely one-page color ad for Richelieu Pearls features lady in strapless top; Inside story of a Handbag - casing new light on the ways of womankind!; Nice color ad for Valliant Vineyards; Al Smith - a friend looks at the record - great photo-illustrated article on the life of Governor Alfred E. Smith; One-page ad for Congress Playing Cards; The Story of Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Nostalgic ad for the defoe Shipbuilding Company of Bay City, Michigan; Color photo ad for Thomas' Protein Bread features attractive lady in yellow dress; Color ad fo Presto Cake Flour; Photo-illustrated recipe for Coffee Cake Without Sugar; Wonderful one-page colour ad for Sand W Fine Apple Juice features two lovely young ladies; Article on tomorrow's refrigerators; Teen-Age Decalogue; Wheatena ad shows bride carrying groom over the threshold; Lovely two pages of photo of formal hat fashions for ladies; Chow for the Wacs - they don't need as much food as they've been receiving; Gorgeous one-page color-photo fashion ad for Donnybrook Classic; Color ad for Oxydol soap; Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder ad features sensuous scene; ad for Scott fine radio receivers; Color ad for Jackson & Perkins Co. flowers on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage wartime issue. Book
1945Contents: Color ad for GM's Electro-Motive Division; Color ad for the new Pontiac (car); Color Kuppenheimer clothing ad; Moscow-London duel attests problems of Truman and Attlee in shaping policy on atomic bomb; Nice color military-themed Coke ad (in Leyte, Philippines); Nice color Camel cigarette ad; Stalin rumors kindled by failure to show up for Red celebrations; photo of tubby Col. Esao Tokunaga who abused Allied prisoners in Hong Kong; Evidence of Japanese war crimes in the Philippines; Blood over Manchuria; The idle GI and liberated France are mighty tired of each other; Dee Balla - Sweetheart of the Marines; Color ad for Pullman-Standard; Great color centerfold ad for the new 1946 Chevrolet; Two photos of a German weapon, the "Viper", a rocket-powered, piloted midget plane which was to be aimed at enemy bombers at 620 mph - the pilot would bail out pre-impact; Canada's arctic exercise Musk Ox; Lewis-Murray feud blurs start of labor-management meeting; Clarence Birdseye now holds 300 patents - his latest invention is a quick-dehydration method; nice color White truck ad; Edgar Bergen marries Frances Westerman; Prokofieff's voice is cosmopolitan - his theme is the spirit of Russia; Photo of German POWs at Fort Custer, Michigan; color ad for Philip Morris & Co. - Bond Street and Revelation; William Keighley; It's Pepsi's Money - Portrait of America Exhibition at Rockefeller Center; Color ad for Scheaffer's pens inside back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label atop front cover. A sound copy. Magazine
194640 pages. Features: Lovely cover illustration of snowy Quebec church scene; Colour Canada Dry ad; How Much Was Exploded by the Atomic Bomb?; Photo of tractor train pulling into Yellowknife from Lower Hay River; Jergens Lotion ad with photo of beautiful Marie McDonald; The Prime Minister Sweepstakes; Knocking at the Door (short story); British Columbia (B.C.) Counts Her Trees - a general plan is required for the perpetuation of the province's timber stands - photo-illustrated article with aerial photo of Ladysmith fire, July 7, 1945; Laurie is so Optimistic (short story); Home Aides; Advances in Science; Buffalo Farmer Ed Butters of Michigan - photo-illustrated article on man who purchased a 250-animal herd in South Dakota and moved it east; Nearest My Heart (shrot story); Nice one-page colour ad for the 1946 Pontiac (maroon four-door Silver Streak); Photo ad for Woodbury soap features three photos of newlyweds Mabel Lucille Holland and ex-RCAF officer Thomas Mitchell Mills, both of Montreal; Charming colour Fry's Cocoa ad with kids running home from school; Photo of Gypsy Rose Lee in Arrid ad; The New Fashioned Woman; Back cover colour Frigidaire fridge ad shows trio admiring large cut of meat; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A lovely vintage copy. Book
2018Best.-Nr. BN366403Taylor & Francis Inc 2018. 2018. Hardcover. Electromagnetics Electromagnetics Edward J. Michigan State University East Lansing USA Rothwell Michael J. Lawrence Technological University Southfield Michigan USA Cloud Taylor & Francis Inc hardcover
1920Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
1932Best.-Nr. 003130Paris, Mornay, 1932
1844Best.-Nr. List3335Kalamazoo Michigan 1844. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds; larger tear at seal intersecting with text. Overall excellent to Near Fine. An 1844 letter from a woman who had recently moved to Kalamazoo to a friend in Urbana Ohio. The writer describes Kalamazoo: “It is nearly four months since we bade our sad adieu to Staten Island and our lovely abode & here have we been in the wilds of Michigan some two or three months we remained at Detroit two or three weeks with our youngest brother — the first of June our elder brother David removed to Kalamazoo and it is really a beautiful wonderful place; and of far greater magnitude than I had formed any conception and only ten years ago nothing but the indian war whoop was heard — now it really to a stranger presents almost as bustling an appearance as Detroit; much taste has been evinced by the founders of this magical village of the west; – they have allowed to remain unharmed the splendid forest trees and the whole town presents the aspect of a grove — it is becoming the great thoroughfare to St Josephs & Chicago & St Louis —.” The first white settler within what is now the city of Kalamazoo Titus Bronson arrived in 1829; within ten years Kalamazoo County had several thousand residents. The writer also describes her plans for traveling to New Orleans hoping to avoid the seasickness-inducing “‘big lake’ travelling”. This would have been difficult as plank roads were not laid in the area until the following year and railroads would not reach Kalamazoo until 1846. Of interest to historians of white American settlement of Michigan. unknown
1844Best.-Nr. List3335Kalamazoo Michigan 1844. Single three-page letter measuring 7 ½ x 9 ¾ inches. Folded with very small tears at folds; larger tear at seal intersecting with text. Overall excellent to Near Fine. An 1844 letter from a woman who had recently moved to Kalamazoo to a friend in Urbana Ohio. The writer describes Kalamazoo: “It is nearly four months since we bade our sad adieu to Staten Island and our lovely abode & here have we been in the wilds of Michigan some two or three months we remained at Detroit two or three weeks with our youngest brother — the first of June our elder brother David removed to Kalamazoo and it is really a beautiful wonderful place; and of far greater magnitude than I had formed any conception and only ten years ago nothing but the indian war whoop was heard — now it really to a stranger presents almost as bustling an appearance as Detroit; much taste has been evinced by the founders of this magical village of the west; – they have allowed to remain unharmed the splendid forest trees and the whole town presents the aspect of a grove — it is becoming the great thoroughfare to St Josephs & Chicago & St Louis —.” The first white settler within what is now the city of Kalamazoo Titus Bronson arrived in 1829; within ten years Kalamazoo County had several thousand residents. The writer also describes her plans for traveling to New Orleans hoping to avoid the seasickness-inducing “‘big lake’ travelling”. This would have been difficult as plank roads were not laid in the area until the following year and railroads would not reach Kalamazoo until 1846. Of interest to historians of white American settlement of Michigan. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 63-8084Colon Michigan: Abbott's Magic Novelty Company 1947 - 1956. 4to. Stapled Wraps ca. 30-40 pp. each Very Good with some toning Illustrated.June 1947 May 1948 October 1948 November 1948 December 1948 January 1949 February 1949 March 1949 April 1949 May 1949 June 1949 July 1949 August 1949 January 1950 Feb. 1950 March 1950 April 1950 May 1950 June 1950 July 1950 August 1950 September 1950 October 1950 November 1950 December 1950 January 1951 February 1951 March 1951 April 1951 May 1951 June 1951 July 1951 August 1951 Sept 1951 Oct 1951 Nov 1951 Dec 1951 Jan 1952 Feb 1952 Mar 1952 Apr 1952 May 1952 June 1952 July 1952 Aug 1952 Sept 1952 Oct 1952 Nov 1952 Dec 1952 Feb 1956 Mar 1956 Sept 1956. Colon, Michigan: Abbott's Magic Novelty Company, 1947 - 1956. paperback
1893Best.-Nr. 850661893. Rare 1893 Digest of Michigan Laws Governing Insane Asylums OCLC Locates 2 Copies Insanity. Michigan. Laws Establishing and Organizing the Michigan Asylums for the Insane and the Michigan Asylum for Dangerous and Criminal Insane. N.p.: S.n. April 1893. 22 pp. Quarto 9-3/4" x 6-1/2"; 24.7 x 16.5 cm. Contemporary textured cloth gilt title Laws/ Michigan Asylums to center of front board. Rubbing and light fading to extremities moderate wear to spine ends and corners faint dampstaining to foot of boards with some crinkling to pastedowns light toning to interior. A very good copy of a rare title. $350. Only edition located. Beginning with the establishment of its first state asylum in 1859 Michigan was known for its progressive and innovative approach to mental illness. This book collects all laws concerning the state's asylums in force in April 1893. Although it does not have a preface or other explanatory matter its contents suggest it was produced for people responsible with oversight and adminstration. OCLC locates 2 copies Grand Rapids Public Library Library of Michigan. No copies located in institutions outside of Michigan. unknown
1893Best.-Nr. 850661893. Rare 1893 Digest of Michigan Laws Governing Insane Asylums OCLC Locates 2 Copies Insanity. Michigan. Laws Establishing and Organizing the Michigan Asylums for the Insane and the Michigan Asylum for Dangerous and Criminal Insane. N.p.: S.n. April 1893. 22 pp. Quarto 9-3/4" x 6-1/2"; 24.7 x 16.5 cm. Contemporary textured cloth gilt title Laws/ Michigan Asylums to center of front board. Rubbing and light fading to extremities moderate wear to spine ends and corners faint dampstaining to foot of boards with some crinkling to pastedowns light toning to interior. A very good copy of a rare title. $350. Only edition located. Beginning with the establishment of its first state asylum in 1859 Michigan was known for its progressive and innovative approach to mental illness. This book collects all laws concerning the state's asylums in force in April 1893. Although it does not have a preface or other explanatory matter its contents suggest it was produced for people responsible with oversight and adminstration. OCLC locates 2 copies Grand Rapids Public Library Library of Michigan. No copies located in institutions outside of Michigan. unknown books
1855Best.-Nr. 31095Detroit: S.D. Elwood & Co. Lansing: Geo. W. Peck Printer 1855. Original printed and illustrated wrappers dusted rear blank wrapper chipped with wrapper title as issued. 52pp. Except as noted Very Good. The rare printing of the Code governing proceedings before Justices of the Peace. OCLC 85212369 1- U MI Law as of April 2014. Not in Cohen Babbitt Sabin or Harv. Law Cat. S.D. Elwood & Co. Lansing: Geo. W. Peck, Printer unknown
1855Best.-Nr. 31095Detroit: S.D. Elwood & Co. Lansing: Geo. W. Peck Printer 1855. Original printed and illustrated wrappers dusted rear blank wrapper chipped with wrapper title as issued. 52pp. Except as noted Very Good. The rare printing of the Code governing proceedings before Justices of the Peace. OCLC 85212369 1- U MI Law as of April 2014. Not in Cohen Babbitt Sabin or Harv. Law Cat. S.D. Elwood & Co. Lansing: Geo. W. Peck, Printer unknown books
2026Best.-Nr. x-0198905998Oxford University Press 2026. Paperback. New. 888 pages. 8.58x1.34x10.83 inches. Oxford University Press paperback
