Search Results: Great Lakes from Gene W. Baade Books on the West

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. 4th printing of Revised and Enlarged edition. Cloth. 180pp. Illustrated with some drawings. Maps. Bibliography. Endpaper maps showing Crawford County, Michigan. Signed by Miller on the half-title & non-authorial gift inscription on verso of same. "part of (author's) interesting account deals with the indiscriminate logging of Michigan's virgin pine in the Au Sable region." Trace of wear to couple of edges, else fine in nearly complete dust jacket chipped along the top edge. This book commanding hefty prices even for later printings.

Phila: Lippincott, Grambo & Co, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover. Good-. 1st printing. 703pp. No portrait this copy. Schoolcraft, after expeditions seeking the source of the Mississippi River, had various appointments, including Supt. of Indian Affairs in on Lake Superior & in Michigan. He "pioneered early anthropological and ethnological studies of the American Indian." (WCB). The copy should be rebound, but is plenty tight as a reading/research copy. A library re-backed it with basic materials & typed label; it has library marks/plates. Hinge broken after 1st signature (p. vi), but intact with the library's repair at front hinge. Back hinge cracked. WCB 203b, Graff 3699, Howes S190.

Manitoulin Island: Mid-North & Privately printed, 1980. First Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 1st printing with no date of publication given. OCLC gives both 1980s & 1992. 4to pictorial wraps. 116pp. Illus. Illustrated in b/w. Signed by author using her first name. Lots of history on this large island on the north end of Lake Ontario. Much on churches, residents (mainly obituaries), information on Jesuit missionaries and the Iroquois, and shipping including burning of steamer Manitoulin. Near fine. Very scarce.

Calumet: Privately Printed and Greenlee Printing, 1985. First Edition. Soft cover. Collectible Near Fine. 1st printing. 4to pictorial wraps. 72pp. Illus. We're thinking the book was published well before 1985, but are not for sure. Signed by Maki "Best wishes Bert Maki" to no one in particular. Scarce history of this Michigan Upper Peninsula town and area of copper mining. Small printed card laid in produced by Maki, including the poem, "How Old Are You?" Small residue spot on front cover from removed price sticker. Near fine. Scarce.