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Recent Additions: Historic Michigan: Land of the Great Lakes; its life, resources, industries, people, politics, government, wars, institutions, achievements, the press, schools and churches, legendary and prehistoric lore, ed. George N. Fuller. Published by the National Historical Association, Inc. and dedicated to the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society in Commemoration of its Fiftieth Anniversary. 1924. Vol. II only, pp. 541-1048, with table of contents preceding and index following. Dark blue cloth. Shelfworn; front hinge cracked; else Good. $30 Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, 14 volumes, Memorial Edition. East Aurora, Erie County, New York: Roycrofters (Wise), 1916. Included with this complete set of books is the Guide Book and a little set of bookends either made from or made to look like (I can’t tell) two leatherbound volumes of Virgil. $90 for 14 volumes, guide & bookends. CHASE S. OSBORN COLLECTION Chase S. Osborn (1860-1949), born in a log cabin in Indiana and educated at Purdue University, spent much of his adult life as a newspaperman in northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan and was governor of the state of Michigan from 1911 to 1913. The only Michigan governor elected (thus far) from the Upper Peninsula, he did not run for a second term. Osborn led a colorful life, prospecting for iron, lobbying for the Mackinac Bridge and, after the death of his first wife, marrying his former adopted daughter, Stellanova, two days before his own death. Having been a regent of the University of Michigan, he left his Sugar Island property, including cabin and fireproof “go-down,” to the U. of M. for forestry research. The three volumes described below will be sold together, as a collection, for $225, or individually. Prices for individual titles appear following descriptions, but it is the collection, each volume inscribed to one couple (husband only, in the third case), that is unique. Schoolcraft Longfellow Hiawatha, by Chase S. Osborn and Stellanova Osborn. Lancaster, PA: Jacques Cattell Press, 1942. First edition, signed by both authors, inscribed “To Ater from Uncle Chase, To Edna from Stellanova, with best wishes and affection right on to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ater Markland, February 1945.” Dedication (typeset, not inscribed) to this book reads as follows: “This book is dedicated to the Great Lakes Region of North America Which Is Without Equal Also To Its Sturdy Pioneers Both White and Red Who Inspired Schoolcraft and Longfellow.” Black cloth, gilt title and illustrative motif (Indian paddling canoe) on spine and front board. 697pp with illustrations and index. Tight and bright. $125 “Hiawatha” With Its Original Indian Legends, by Chase S. Osborn and Stellanova Osborn. Lancaster, PA: Jacques Cattell Press, 1942. Lancaster, PA: Jacques Cattell Press, 1944. First edition, signed by both authors and inscribed “To Edna and Ater Markland with love abidingly.” The authors write in their foreword, “One of the outstanding features of this Great Lakes Edition of The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [typeset with only closing comma] is a complete correlation of the poem with the original Indian legends from which it was constructed. The prose Indian tales parallel the appropriate sections of the poem.” Etc. 255pp, with b/w photographs and index. Black cloth lightly worn on corners and spine ends; gold title faded. Condition is G+. $75 An Accolade for Chase S. Osborn: Home, State, and National Tributes On the Occasion of Chase S. Osborn Day, October 4, 1939, published by the City of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, for presentation to Governor Osborn in Honor of his Eightieth Birthday, January 22, 1940, edited by Stella Brunt Osborn. Sault Ste. Marie: Sault Ste. Marie Printing Company, 1940. First Edition, inscribed by Chase S. Osborn to Wilbur Ater Markland, “whom I love as a son, including his superb [?] family,” dated October 16, 1940. Among those writing on the occasion was Franklin D. Roosevelt, from the White House, to say, “I want to join with the home folks who are arranging for Chase S. Osborn Day in your honor. Your activities have been so manifold and so useful that one finds it difficult to estimate the full value of your lng and distinguished public service. But as one who has prized your friendship through many years I want to join with the folks in the old home town and send all good wishes for your health and happiness.” Light green cloth; 603pp with index. With spine sunned, ends bumped, boards lightly stained, and front hinge loose, the condition of this book is slightly less than Good, but the former governor’s inscription and signature on the front-facing endpaper are bright and clear. $35 ---- L’Illustration, no. 4683, 3 décembre 1932. Christmas issue of a weekly magazine of drawings and engravings, with accompanying text, especially desirable owing to the inclusion of a signed Louis Icart print, “Le jardin japonais.” The cover is detached, and there is slight rippling, owing to dampness, to the lower right corners of the first few pages, not affecting the Icart print. The Icart and many other pages of this magazine are very suitable for framing. I am offering the issue intact. It would make a very original, surprising and unique present for some lucky individual or couple on your holiday gift list. $200 |
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