Search Results: Michigan History from McCormick Books

Alma Public Library. Near Fine. 2003. 1st Edition. Softcover. 0972830405 . Author signed title page. Oversized study of Michigan lumberman and prominent residents of Alma in Gratiot County. Illustrated. ; MCN32082; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 210 pp; Signed by Author .

Private Printing. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine hardcover copy in a nearly fine dustjacket. Profusely illustrated history of Camp Arcadia, a Lutheran camp owned and operated by the Lutheran Camp Association, and located in Arcadia, Manistee County, Michigan (birthplace of famous aviator Harriet Quimby, first woman in the United States to receive a pilot certificate). ; MCN33637; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 158 pp .

Clarke Historical Library. Fine. 2009. Softcover. Illustrated history of Michigan's newspapers. ; MCN32787; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 50 pp .

Lansing: Robert Smith & Co., State Printers and Binders. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1896. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Original brown cloth boards rubbed with usual library markings, hinges cracked with front gutter taped, rear gutter loose. Original compilation showing military veterans enumerated in 1894; not indexed and names are arranged by county and township. ; MCN33972; Ex-Library; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 267 pp .

Thomastown Publishing Co.. Fine. 2006. 1st Edition. Softcover. 0971584877 . Author's inscription title page. Continuing the series on Saginaw, Michigan history, this volume discusses the area's organized religion and churches. Illustrated with photographs. ; MCN32201; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 314 pp .

The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Olive green embossed cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine show light wear, small splitting to cloth spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, front panel of Volume I has faint discoloration splashes. Small nick to cloth on fore-edge of Volume III, a solid and complete five-volume set. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Numerous photographic plates, maps, illus., index. ; MCN33896; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

The Priscilla Press. Very Good+. 2003. Softcover. 1886167206 . Softcover volume shows mild wear, bookstore stamp front endpaper. Author signed title page. History of the city of Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Chippewa County, illustrated with historical photographs and maps. Index.; MCN29295; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 347 pp; Signed by Author .

Windmill Publications. Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. Green cloth boards, clean and bright copy. This facsimile hardcover reprint contains the 1976 history of Howell in Livingston County, Michigan, the photographic supplement and the 1996 supplement which concerns people and events from 1976-1995. The history contains 437 pages plus two indexes; the supplement contains 336 pages plus an index of photographs. ; MCN34039; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Henry Taylor & Co.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1908. 1st Edition. Full-leather. Full leather boards with beveled edges rubbed, gilt lettering to spine with leather just starting to split head of spine. Decorated endpapers, sticker remnant inside front board. Corners square and tight, tightly bound and a solid very good+ copy. Oversized history of Detroit and Wayne County with numerous biographical sketches, histories of financial institutions and other businesses, portraits with tissue guards.; MCN27703; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 719 pp .

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gold cloth boards show scant wear, mild rub rear panel, with uncut leaves. ; MCN32952; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pp .

LWV Dearborn-Dearborn Heights. Very Good. 1976. 4th Edition. Softcover. Blue and white wraps, usual library markings. A handbook, with very brief history and descriptions of city government and the community of Dearborn in Wayne County, Michigan. ; MCN33976; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 193 pp .

The Donning Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover; 3rd Printing. 0898654823 . A clean and crisp copy in pictorial dustjacket, now in protective mylar. Oversized pictorial history of the city of Dearborn in Wayne County, Michigan with over 300 historical photographs, many previously unpublished. Foreword by Winfield Arneson.; MCN30374; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 240 pp .

Bookman Associates. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth boards with address written inside front boards, corners straight and tight, in a lightly rubbed dustjacket. A condensed history of Detroit and its development. ; MCN33016; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 135 pp .

New York: Commercial Publishing Co.. Very Good. 1896. 1st Edition. Softcover. Pictorial decorated wraps show heavy rubbing, toned with discoloration, worn on spine ends, with red ribbon tie binding. Internally sound with occasional smudging to text block, no major tears or markings. Published during the term of Mayor Hazen Pingree, a pre-automotive descriptive, promotional and historical Detroit item with local advertisements, biographical sketches of businessmen and businesses, numerous photographs of historical buildings, Belle Isle, homes and street corner views. Late 20th century Detroit history doesn't get any better than this. Quite scarce.; MCN33884; Oblong 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 141 pp .

Detroit: Rogers & Thorpe, Publishers. Fair with no dust jacket. 1891. 1st Edition. Flexible cloth. Brown flexible boards with gilt stamping front panel, remaining portion of rear panel detached, heavy chipping and loss to covers with some soiling, tearing to margins of final page. Else a complete copy here in fair to good condition being sold here AS IS. An uncommon early Detroit item with numerous biographical sketches of late nineteenth century businessmen and companies flourishing in downtown Detroit, Michigan. With photographs of both people and businesses - residential homes, Detroit Stove Works, several tobacco companies, Hudson's and other retail establishments, etc. ; MCN33619; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 160 pp .

Isle Royale Natural History Association. Very Good+. 1996. Softcover; 2nd Printing. 093528902X . "A memoir of a winter on an isolated island in Lake Superior during the Great Depression." Entries dated from September 1932 through April 1933. ; MCN34113; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 137 pp .

Durand Express. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gold cloth boards square and tight, usual library markings. History of the town of Durand in Shiawassee County, Michigan includes chapters on families, schools, depot, businesses, churches, etc. Profusely illustrated, includes index of families. ; MCN33991; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Pavilion Press. Near Fine. 1995. Softcover. 187770301X . Study of early maritime passenger boats on Lake Michigan operating between Chicago and Saugatuck, illustrated throughout. ; MCN32080; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 160 pp .

Gale Research. Fine with no dust jacket. 1979. Reprint. Hardcover. 0810340682 . Corners sharp, clean and bright hardcover facsimile reprint of the 1906 edition. Just a few of the chapter titles include My Arrival in Detroit May, 1827; Earlier Navigation on Lake and River; Slavery Days in Michigan; The Toledo War; Early Day Architecture; Old Hotels of Detroit; Detroit Merchants of Long Ago; Fighting Epidemics; When Woodward Avenue Was a Corduroy Road; To Pontiac By Way of Mt. Clemens; When Indians Were Hanged in Michigan; Keen Rivalry of Fire Fighters; The Cass Family; Dancing Teachers; Mr. John Owen; The Campau Family; F & T Palmer Stores; The Desnoyers Heirs; General Isaac DeGraff Toll; Persons Prominent in the City's Life; Recollections of Mexican War; Marriage and Death Notices; Buffalo to Detroit by Steamboat in 1821; The Fort Street Girls, etc., with chapters on the families of Navarre, St. Martin, Peltier, Labadie, Chapoton, Cicotte, Rivard, Lafferty, Riopelle, DuBois, St.… Read More

St. Louis: Buschart Bros., Print.. Good. 1897. 1st Edition. Softcover. A fair to good copy, tan wraps edgeworn with chipping at points, faint circular glass blemish front panel, staining rear panel. Extensive mice nibbles on rear upper corner, decreasing through last few pages and only impacting upper margins. Previous owners name stamped inside front cover, tightly bound. With frontis map and all other illustrations present. A scarce first edition history of Michigan's Mackinac Island, "Name-Indian Legends-Indian Character-French, English and American Flags-Old Fort-Military History, and War of 1812-Fur Trade-Early Village Life-Christian Missions and Churches-Natural Attractions; Antiquities." Scarce.; MCN30186; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 111 pp .