Category: Ohio

Euclid Beach Park -- a Second Look. Volume II.

By: Amusement Park Books, Inc.: Lee O. Bush, Edward C. Chukayne, Russell Allon Hehr, Richard F. Hershey.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Fairview Park, Ohio: AP Books, Inc., (1979).

Seller ID: vas894

Quarto, hardcover (slick white photo. illus. boards), 229 pp. Fine. From lower cover: With the publication of Euclid Beach Park is Closed for the Season came an effort to document in detail a part of American history. The amusement park in the United States has been a familiar part of everyone's childhood since the 1880s and has yet to be given the attention this important social feature demands. Response to the first publication about the Cleveland park went beyond any imagined expectation. The park, the subject, was and is important to thousands of people. The concept of a ÒSecond Loo...
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Euclid Beach Park is Closed for the Season. [Signed, Limited Edition].

By: Bush, Lee O.; Chukayne, Edward C.; Hehr, Russell Allon; Hershey, Richard F. (Amusement Park Books, Inc.).

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio: Dillon/Liederbach Inc., Book Publishers, 1977. Book No. 237 of a Limited Edition of 500.

Seller ID: vas893

Signed by all of the members of Amusement Park Books, Inc. (authors of the book). Quarto, green illustrated cloth (hardcover), viii + 331 pp. Near Fine. From Preface: For seventy-four years a plot of land, comprised of seventy-five and ninety-three one hundredths acres facing on Lake Erie at the extreme north east corner of Cleveland, Ohio, exerted a magnetic pull on the local citizens. The force behind the magnet was the pursuit of pleasures concentrated within the confines of that acreage; pleasures contemplated in winters, realized in summers. Year after year, citizens built up store...
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[Fold-out Map]: The Biggest Little Town in Ohio, Oak Harbor, ÒGateway to the Famous Catawba Peninsula.Ó

By: Businessmen's Ass'n, Chamber of Commerce, The Industrial Plants of The Villages of Oak Harbor.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Presented in the Interest of Progress through the United Efforts and Co-operation of the Businessmen's Ass'n, Chamber of Commerce, and the Industrial Plants of The Village of Oak Harbor.

Seller ID: 60817bd

Fold-out map edged with advertisments for area businesses. Phone numbers in the advertisements contain only four numerals, leading us to date the map ca. early 1950s. Two-sided, measuring 16 1/2Ó x 21 1/2Ó. Near-Fine, with a touch of foxing (age darkened spotting) to title.
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Yesterday's Columbus: A Pictorial History of Ohio's Capital. [Seemann's Historic Cities Series, No. 31].

By: Condon, George E.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Miami, FL: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., (1977).

Seller ID: 005418scs

Royal octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 128 pp. Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. Illustrated with more than 240 b&w photos.
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Educational Leaflet Series No. 5: About Ohio Rocks and Minerals. An Adaptation of Rocks and Minerals of Ohio, Published by the Ohio Division of Geological Survey.

By: Farnsworth, Carolyn.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbus: Ohio Division of Geological Survey, 1962.

Seller ID: qms1018

Quarto, paperbound (stiff, light green wrappers, stapled), 30 pp. Illustrated.
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Yesterday's Cincinnati. Seemann's Historic Cities Series No. 19.

By: Feck, Luke.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Miami, FL: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., 1975.

Seller ID: vas5324

A bookplate signed by the Author is attached to the half title. Royal octavo, slick black textured boards (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, 140 pp. Very Good+. Illustrated. Contents: 1788: A Queen is Born; War and Peace: 1860 to 1870; Extra Niceties: 1870 to 1880; A Birthday Celebrated, An Era Ended: 1880 to 1890; Political Problems and Mechanical Might: 1890 to 1900; A Decade of Calm: 1900 to 1910; Flood, Freeze, Scandal, and Strike: 1900 to 1920; Subways and Reform: 1920 to 1930; Just Making It: 1930 to 1940; A Crown Askew: 1940 to 1950; Cincinnati Since 1950.
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A Singular People: Images of Zoar.

By: Fernandex, Kathleen M.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Kent: The Kent State University Press, (2003). First Edition.

Seller ID: 10012gcs

Large, square octavo; brown cloth (hardcover); gilt letters, 180 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The community of Zoar has been a tourist attraction since it was founded in 1817, due in part to its uncommon experiment in Christian communal living, its German heritage, and its location on the Ohio & Erie Canal. Unlike many 19th-century communal societies, Zoar did not discourage tourism and Ògawkers.Ó As a result, there is an unusually rich photographic record of the community and its people as well as many descriptions and comments by writers who wished to share their im...
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America's Soapbox: Seventy-Five Years of Free Speaking at Cleveland's City Club Forum. Foreword by David S. Broder.

By: Gottlieb, Mark and Diana Tittle.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio: Citizens Press, [1987].

Seller ID: 50046s

Tall octavo, grey faux leather, (hardcover), silver letters, glossy pages, 255 pp. Fine (As New), in like dust jacket. Ò...Brings to life all the fiery oratory and impassioned eloquence of 75 years of debates at the City Club -- the longest running uninterrupted forum of free speech in the country. In its pages you will discover William Jennings Bryan's ringing denunciation of the demon rum; Clarence Darrow's heartfelt cry against capital punishment; Bertrand Russell's precient warning of an inevitable second world war; Robert Kennedy's moving eulogy of the slain Martin Luther King, Jr....J...
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Akron, City at the Summit: A Pictorial and Entertaining Commentary on the Growth and Development of Akron, Ohio.

By: Knepper, George W. [Gieck, Jack E.; Photography Editor].

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Tulsa, Oklahoma: Larry P. Silvey and Douglas S. Drown, (1981).

Seller ID: m2746

Quarto, dark orange cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 232 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges; in a Good+ dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. Illustrations throughout. Contents: Prologue; From Untamed Land to Canal Town: Development on the Portage; Of Counties and Canals: A City Emerges; Rubber Capital of America: Whirling Dervish of a City; Places to Go, Things to Do: Burleyque and Building Booms; Down But Not Out: Akron in the 20s; Forging Ahead: Contributing to America; The Old Gives Way: A New Development; Index; Bibliography.
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Yesterday's Akron: The First 150 Years.

By: Nichols, Kenneth.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Miami: E. A. Seemann / Summit County Historical Society, (1976).

Seller ID: 4174bd

Second Priting. Octavo, maroon boards, 120 pp. Illustrations, photographs throughout. Near-Fine in dust jacket with mylar protector.
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Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fourteenth General Assembly of the State of Ohio, Begun and Held in the Twon of Chillicothe, December 4, 1815... Volume XIV.

By: Ohio General Assembly.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chillicothe: Printed by Nashee & Denny, for John Bailhache, 1816.

Seller ID: vas544

Octavo, full sheep (leather, hardcover), calf label, 434 pp, 13 pp, [3] pp, 24 pp. Poor; covers nearly detached, final leaf supplied in facsimile.
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Ohio Centennial Anniversary Celebration at Chillicothe, May 20-21, 1903, under the Auspices of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. Complete Proceedings.

By: Randall, E. O.; Editor.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Columbus: Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1903.

Seller ID: 16132scs

Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xxix, 730 pp. Illustrated. Very Good, with light wear to covers and foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers.
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Revised Catalog of Ohio Vascular Plants: Arranged According to the Phyletic System of Claassification; with Notes on the Geographic Distribution in the State, Based Mainly on Specimens in the Ohio State Herbarium of the Ohio State University. The Ohio Biological Survey, Bulletin 25, Volume V, Number 2. The Ohio State University Bulletin, Volume XXVi, Number 9, January 9, 1932.

By: Schaffner, John H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio: University at Columbus, Ohio, 1932...

Seller ID: 4762sa

Octavo, softbound, Pages 89-215, [126] pp. Very Good, with much wear to spine. ÔThe present catalog numbers 2309 species with a considerable additional number of recognized varieties and hybrids...'
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Wadsworth: Center to City.

By: Schapiro, Eleanor Iler; Editor. The Class of 1938, Wadsworth High School.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Wadsworth, Ohio: The Wadsworth Banner-Press, 1938. First Edition.

Seller ID: 335464qs

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), 203 pp + [iv] pp. Near Fine, with lightly rubbed edges.. Contents: Foreword; Pioneers; Center to City; Churches; Education; Industry and Business; Transportation; Hotels; Publications; Recreation; Library and Federation; Radical Groups; Cemetery; Houses; Soldiers; Physicians; Personalities; Bibliography; Contributors.
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The Years Were Good. Introduction by Bruce Catton.

By: Seltzer, Louis B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Cleveland: World, [1956].

Seller ID: 28456

1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, blue cloth, 318 pp. Fine in dust jacket.
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A Lifetime Away: Describing Life in the Early 1900's to the Present Time.

By: Seme, Bernadette Gowday.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Published by the Author, December 2003.

Seller ID: vas641

Signed by the Author. Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. stiff wrappers), 131 pp. Fine. From Preface: Bernadette Gowday Seme, born in 1909 in northeastern Ohio, was married in 1932, had two daughters, and moved to northern New York in 1946... Bernadette now spends several months each year in Florida, while still maintaining her home in LaFargeville, NY. Her work has been published in local newspapers in both locales and also in GRIT. She also has a small children's book to her credit. She spent much time writing this collection of memories...
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Overflow. Second Book Describing More Stories of Life in the Early 1900s to the Present Time.

By: Seme, Bernadette Gowday.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Published by the Author, October 2005.

Seller ID: vas642

Octavo, softbound (slick, photo. illus. cloth binding strip backed), unpaginated. Fine. From Preface: In her 80s, Bernadette Seme of LaFargeville, New York, after the death of her husband in 1991, encouraged by her dauthers, Marlene and Sheila, took a correspondence writing course and wrote articles about her life. Many of these were written for Writer's Groups that she joined, one in Theresa, N.Y. and two in Zephyrhills, Florida. In the fall of 2002, Sheila gathered these together, had them typed to be printed in Tampa, Florida... The book depicts, in interesting chapters, the differen...
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Down Through The Years in Elyria [Ohio].

By: Thomas, James B.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin Printing Company, 1967.

Seller ID: m1900

1st edition. Octavo, blue cloth, 402 pp. Map. Former-owner inscription; otherwise Near-Fine.
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The Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. Interurbans Special 115.

By: Toman, James.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Glendale, CA: Interurban Press, (1990). First Edition.

Seller ID: 9622gcs

Quarto, brown boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 144 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Shaker Heights Rapid Transit began as a key element in the dreams of the Van Sweringen brothers, two wealthy Cleveland businessment. Starting out in real estate, the enterprising brothers eventually built an empire which included many land and railroad holdings. They began this empire when they sought to build one of the nation's first planned communities on land east of Cleveland, Ohio, on the site of an earlier Shaker colony. In this pre-automobile age, the brothers realized the im...
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Distribution Maps of Certain Plants in Ohio. Ohio Biological Survey: Volume IV, No. 5, Bulletin No. 20.

By: Transeau, E. N. and Williams, P. E.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State University Press, 1929.

Seller ID: 50002s

Octavo, stapled wrappers, [36] pp. Good+, with chipped covers. Illus.
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Category: Ohio