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    Quaife, Milo Milton:  The Southwestern Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1925. First thus. Near fine in green cloth covered boards with clean and bright gilt decorations on the front board and the text on the spine is only very slightly tarnished. The cloth at the corners of the spine are lightly rubbed. The fold-out map is in place before page 3 and is in fine condition. The 23rd volume in the Lakeside Classic series for 1925. First published in 1810 by C. & A. Conrad & Co of Philadelphia. Zebulon Pike's narration of the expedition he lead through the southwestern parts of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806-1807. A very bright, tight and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB32544  $150.00



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    Quaife, Milo:  Lake Michigan.  Indianapolis: The Bobb-Merrill Co., 1944. First Edition, Limited Edition. Very near fine in decorated green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text and a gilt outline of the lake on the front board and with map end sheets. An octavo of 8 3/8 by 5 3/4 inches with light rubbing to the cloth at the corners of the head and heel of the spine and at the fore corners of the boards. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with very light wear to the top edge of the spine area and with two shallow chips to the lower edge of the same.and wear and the fore corners over the tips of the boards. Signed by the author on the special, tipped-in page immediately after the first free end sheet. The third volume in The American Lakes Series. 384 pages containing an index and bibliographical notes. Illustrated from black and white photographs throughout. (Fitzgerald, AL5a)
    TB32993  $95.00



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    Quaife, Milo M.:  Chicago's Highways Old and New From Indian Trail To Motor Road.  Chicago: D. F. Keller & Company, 1923. First Edition. Very good+ in navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 3/4 inches with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the ends of the spine and with evidence of a plate of some kind removed from the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. 278 pages including an index. Illustrated with a frontispiece, maps and reproductions of earlier works of art and facsimiles of documents.
    TB30056  $75.00



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    Quaife, Milo Milton:  John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1922. First thus. Good+ in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt borders on the front board with wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head of the spine and with a 1/2 inch chip from the upper area of the spine causing a loss to part of the gilt title. This copy is otherwise in very good+ condition. The fold-out map is in place and in very nice shape. Originally published in London in 1791 this volume reprints the narratives of Long who spend many years in his youth living with Indians. His journals describe his adventures traveling through Canada and the Great Lakes region.
    TB33188  $75.00



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    Quaife, Milo Milton:  Pictures of Illinois One Hundred Years Ago.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1918. First thus. An ex-library copy in very good condition in dark green cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and with a gilt top edge to the text block. There are several short closed tears to the cloth at the head of the spine and the cloth is rubbed through at the tips of the boards and there is a narrow mark on the front board. Library stamps appear on the paste downs. The 16th volume in the Lakeside Classic series which was released at Christmastime in 1917. It provides three eye-witness accounts of the early history of Illinois. 186 pages including an index, appendix, text and illustrated with a frontispiece engraving. Other than what is noted above, there are no prior ownership markings of any kind.
    TB29646  $65.00



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    Quaife, Milo M.:  The Kingdom of Saint James A Narrative of the Mormons.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. First Edition. Very good+ in tan cloth covered boards with black text on the spine and with black text and blue decorations on the front board. An octavo of 9 by 6 1/8 inches with light rubbing and wear to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and a long dated gift inscription to the author, Milo Milton Quaife, on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket. The gift inscription noted above is signed by the 24 members of the "Algonuins" [Algonquin Club] to the author "who wrote this but does not own a copy." 284 pages including an index, appendix and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of James J Strang from a daguerreotype and eleven plates from photographs. The biography of James J. Strang and the eleventh work published by the Yale University Press on the Amasa Stone Mather Memorial Publication Fund.
    TB31713  $50.00



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    Quaife, Milo Milton:  Pictures of Gold Rush California.  Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1949. First thus. Fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and gilt decorations on the front board and with gilt to the top edge of the text block. The gilt text stamping on the spine is bright and untarnished. A Lakeside Classic issued in 1949. Laid-in at the front of the book is a Compliments of the Season card from Thomas E. Donnelley. A collection of contemporary accounts which highlight the perils of overland travel to the gold fields of California. 383 pages including and index. A clean, handsome and tight copy.
    TB33005  $50.00



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    Quaife, Milo M. and edited by Joe L. Norris:  Forty-six Years: The Published Writings of Milo M. Quaife 1910-1955.  Detroit: Algonquin Club, 1956. First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. 49 pages of text. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Quaife from a black and white photograph. All of this great historian's contributions are arranged in date order.
    TB31708  $30.00




  • Quammen, David:  The Song of the Dodo.  New York: Scribner, 1996. First Edition. Fine in 1/4 yellow cloth and yellow paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. In a fine jacket although with two minor, and extremely faint coffee splatters of 1/8" each. Sub-titled: Island Biogeography in an age of Extinctions. This Montana based writer has received two literary awards for his science essays in Outside magazine.
    TB07217  $35.00



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    Quincy, John, M.D.:  Pharmacopoeia Officinalis & Extemporanea: Or, A Compleat English Dispensatory, In Two Parts Theoretic and Practical.  London: T. Longman, 1749. Twelfth Edition. Fair condition in full, contemporary leather covered boards with five raised bands on the spine with gilt borders on edge of the bands. A small octavo of 7 7/8 by 4 7/8 inches with the first free end page and title loose, but present and with the front board loose, but present and the rear board ready to part. The end pages are significantly marked up with a prior owner's name and notes in ink. Part I of Book One consists of 256 pages. Part II is in five books containing 504 pges including an index and both are followed by an unpaginated index of 16 leaves. A copy ready for rebinding.
    TB32083  $250.00



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    Quinn, William P.:  The Saltworks of Historic Cape Cod.  Orleans, Mass.: Parnassus Imprints, (1993). First Edition. Fine in dark blue cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. A small quarto of 10 by 7 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 247 pages of text extensively illustrated with line drawings, images from black and white photographs, maps and reproductions of earlier works of art.
    TB31692  $12.00






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