Publisher:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1993.
Seller ID: VAS5363
Octavo, softbound (stiff, illus. wrappers), ix, 628 pp. Fine. From Preface: This book was designed with a variety of types of readers in mind. The information provided in this book is recorded according to the year in which the event happened. You may, of course, read from cover to cover. But for those readers who prefer to skim, browse, or read selectively, a small piece at a time, each chapter is divided into small sections, each with its own subtitle. For those interested in reading about certain people, their families, and whatever historical information may exist about said people,... View More...
Publisher:
Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin House, Ltd., (1971). First Edition.
Seller ID: 335469qs
Signed by the Author. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 183 pp. Fine in a Near-Fine, mylar protected dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. From dust jacket: The Ed Gein murders in Wisconsin in the early 1950s shocked the whole nation. Villages in the vicinity of Plainfield and Wautoma, as well as these more populated spots found themselves temporarily tarnished and overwhelmed by the crimes. The great small town tradition, however, of neighborly kindness and of deep regard for place and roots, rescued the local people from their sense of horror. In her effort to show the r... View More...
Publisher:
Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Oshkosh Northwestern Co., (1976). First Edition.
Seller ID: ess4678
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters & illus., [xiv] + 404 pp. Very Good, with light edgewear. From Preface: History is not, as many seem to believe, something that happened some place else. There is no need to journey far to gaze over the same vistas that beckoned the fabled adventurous pioneers to the West. They are about you. Personalities larger than life did not exist only in romanticized tales of the wild West of the 1870s and 80s. They were here in the 1830s, and for decades before and after; before by a hundred years, in fact, the white man's probing of the Rockies. The... View More...
Publisher:
Des Plaines Wetlands Conservancy, Inc. 1997.
Seller ID: 1988gls
Signed by the Author. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, brown, stapled, illus. wrappers), silver letters, 27 pp. Fine. Contents: These Things I Know; Acknowledgments; Foreword; First Hunters; Upper Des Plaines River; Introduction of Pheasants; Edward A. Halter, Sr.; By the Fireside; Wildlife Terminology; Bees and Honey; The Old Bur Oak; Nature's Bird Blood; Fireside Reflections; Tracks in the Snow; The Inscrutable Beaver; Wetlands Classic; Wild Berries; Tribute to a Dog; Discover the Des Plaines Wetlands Conservancy; Birds of the Des Plaines Wetlands Conservancy. View More...
Publisher:
Ellison Bay, Wisconsin: Wm Caxton Ltd., (1990). First Edition.
Seller ID: 12754scs
Signed by Edward Schreiber. Octavo, softbound (stiff yellow, b&w photo illus. wrappers), 282 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: Fish Creek Voices is an oral history of life in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, a small town in the northern part of the Door County Peninsula. Told by long-time members of that community, it has been a labor of love for Edward and Lois Schreiber and for a veritable army of other people who have written chapters, provided photos, made drawings, read drafts, and designed and corrected various parts and versions of the book. The project originated as an informal impulse ... View More...
Publisher:
Miami, FL: E. A. Seemann Publishing, Inc., (1976).
Seller ID: 005419scs
Royal octavo, cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 142 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with edgewear. Illustrated with hundreds of b&w photos. View More...
