A decent-quality facsimile reprint of the 1883 Chicago edition. With the typed index prepared in the 1970s. 588 (history), 338 (biographical sketches), 129 (index) pages. 9 by 11 inches. A near fine hardcover. A heavy book.

First Edition. Covers 25 cemeteries in Township 13 South (Range 1 East and West; Range 2 West). Cemeteries listed include St. Johns, Friendship, Hinkle, Big Creek, American Legion, and many others. Surname index included. 205 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Minor spotting to covers. First edition. A very good paperback copy.....

Second Edition. An expanded edition, with new content (and with some of the first edition text removed for space reasons). A family genealogy and history illustrated from black-and-white photographs. 450 pages. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A near fine hardcover; clean inside.

First Edition. A decade-by-decade local history of this small community located about 40 miles west of Chicago. 582 pages. Extensively illustrated with black-and-white photographes. First edition. A near fine hardcover copy. Signed by the author on the title page.

The first post-war directory and yearbook published by the Hokubei Shinposha, a Japanese language newspaper in New York City, illustrated with a halftone photo section of patriotic activities by Japanese New Yorkers during the Second World War. The photos show pictures of Japanese Americans who were resettled on the East.....

First Edition. Harada's acerbic memoirs of a stay in New York City. He is not fond of the people, the crowds, or the culture. Women particularly infuriated him. "Harada's... memoirs treat as the objects of a kind of sexual rage: 'Because their society has indiscriminately raised them up too high, all.....

First Edition. One of the Library of Congress's 88 Books that Shaped America: "'Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles of an entire people. The Souls of Black Folk occupies this rare position,' said Du Bois biographer Manning Marable. Du Bois’s work.....

Second Edition. The second (separate) edition of this important early report on a pilot project that helped determine federal policies to govern and assist the enslaved people who were freed during the Civil War. The Union army occupied the Port Royal area (a network of islands just north of the.....

First Edition. A notorious anti-Chinese book by a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, issued with a remarkable and visually compelling fold-out color map of "vice" in San Francisco's Chinatown. "For historians in search of a complete single work containing most of the indictments widely disseminated in the.....

First Edition. Harada's acerbic, illustrated memoirs of a stay in New York City. He is not fond of the people, the crowds, or the culture. Women particularly infuriated him. "Harada's... memoirs treat women as the objects of a kind of sexual rage: 'Because their society has indiscriminately raised them up too.....

First Edition. The biography of a Nez Perce chief. 304 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine hardcover copy in the publisher's original acetate jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

First Edition. Yellow Wolf, a veteran of the 1877 Nez Perce War, relates his experiences to his friend McWhorter. Yellow Wolf died in 1935, and McWhorter finished the book after his death. Illustrated from photographs. 324 pages. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.....

A cabinet view albumen silver print of erosion and bank protection improvements on the Missouri River near St. Charles, Missouri. The image depicts the river and a line of A-frame supports with wire and branches below the waterline to stop debris flows during the rainy season. Two Black men sit.....