Minnesota from Rulon-Miller Books

[Minneapolis]: Maurice Flagg, 1916. 15 issues bound into 2 volumes, large 8vo, about 48 pages per issue; illustrated throughout, particularly with floorplans and elevations for new homes, color illustrated wrappers bound in; ex-library, bound in library board, upper wrappers stamped, bookplates, the occasional perforation, vol. 3 no. 1 with one leaf excised and one closed tear, very good. The… Read more about this item

Minneapolis & Saint Paul: Northern Pacific, Soo Line, Great Northern, Northeren Navigation Co., n.d., 1930. 11" x 8½?" illustrated flyer on pink paper; previous folds, else fine. "Travel to Duluth on a comfortable train - the by Northern Navigation Company steamer to Port Arthur where connection is made with the S.S. "Islet Prince," for Isle Royale Resorts ... Plan… Read more about this item

Saint Paul: George W. Moore, printer, 1858. 8vo, pp. 7, [1], xviii, [3], 10-624; stain on the last 5 leaves not affecting legibility; title page toned; all else good and sound in full contemporary sheep, red and black leather labels on spine. Debates and proceedings of the Republican wing of the Convention (there was also a separate volume for… Read more about this item

Saint Paul: Wm. R. Marshall, State Printer, 1861. 8vo, pp. 448; red and black leather labels on spine; full original sheep a bit scuffed, otherwise on the whole good and sound. Ownership label on Wallace H. Davis at the bottom of the spine. "5,000 copies ordered printed." Martin, Minnesota Imprints 378.

Faribault, Minn: Orville Brown, State Printer, 1860. 8vo, pp. [3], 6-347, [1]; bound with: Special Laws of the State of Minnesota passed and approved during the second session of the State Legislature ... One thousand copies ordered printed. Faribault: Orville Brown, State Printer, 1860, pp. [3], vi-viii, 144; contemporary quarter sheep, red and black leather labels on spine; generally… Read more about this item

Mankato, Minnesota: Free Press Company, 1923. First edition, 12mo, pp. 77, [1]; frontispiece, a number of illustrations from photographs taken along the way, as well as line drawings; about fine in original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover. The story of a four-week, 4400-mile motor trip from Minnesota to the Atlantic coast and back, in a 1922… Read more about this item

[Minneapolis]: Mnemonic Press, 2022. Edition limited to 25 signed and numbered copies, 7½" x 5", consisting of a title leaf, a 12-page gathering ("Prologue"), and six bifolia containing a total of 26 collages and mixed media created by Bart during the incipient days of the pandemic. Conceived and directed by Harriet Bart; produced by Paul Nylander at Four Tree… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990. 6½" x 9½" letterpress broadside printed for Minnesota Center for Book Arts.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990. 8½" x 11" letterpress broadside printed for the 20th anniversary of the Hungry Mind Bookstore in Saint Paul.

[Saint Paul]: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001. Large, thick 8vo, pp. xii, 718; text in double column; frontispiece map, fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Originally puiblished in 1920, this much expanded and updated edition contains over 20,000 entries.

Saint Paul, Minnesota and Stockholm, Wisconsin, 2023. Edition limited to 70 signed and numbered copies (with an additional 5 hors commerce), 4to (9" x 11"), pp. 36; the text was composition-cast in Monotype Menhart designed by Oldrich Menhart in Prague in 1933, and printed on vintage handmade paper at the Velké Losiny mill in the Czech Republic in the… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: Special Collections, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, 1990. Oblong 8vo, pp. 20; black and white photographic frontispiece, illustrations, facsimiles; original brown pictorial staplebound wrappers; fine. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum at the Coffee House Press and from his personal library.

[Red Wing MN]: Red Dragonfly Press, 2000. Edition limited to 225 copies, 8vo, pp. [28]; black paper wrappers, fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.

[Minneapolis]: Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, 1988. Edition limited to 250 copies (this, no. 193) printed by Ann Borman who has signed the colophon; 8vo, pp. [6], 21, [4]; printed in red and black; 4 woodcuts by Susan Nees who has signed the frontispiece; original paste-paper wrappers designed by Susan Huhn; generally a fine copy. From the library… Read more about this item

DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University, 1980. 8vo, pp. [24]; portrait of Byron on title page, 7 facsimiles; fine in original printed orange wrappers. Designed and printed by Allan Kornblum at The Toothpaste Press. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded the Toothpaste Press and Coffee House Press.

Saint Paul: Olmstead & Brown, territorial printers, 1854. Bound with: Session Laws of the Territory of Minnesota passed by the Legislative Assembly at the session commencing ... January 3, 1855. Minneapolis: Hotchkiss, Staples & Jones, territorial printers, 1855. The first of the session laws to be printed in Minneapolis. Includes the acts to incorporate St. Paul and Stillwater. Sabin… Read more about this item

Saint Paul: Earle S. Goodrich, territorial printer, 1857. First printing of the debates and proceedings of the Democratic wing of the Constitutional Convention, 8vo, xix, [3], 685, [1]; contemporary marbled boards rebacked in tan cloth, red and black morocco labels on spine; hinges strengthened, one label slightly chipped, but a good, sound and clean copy throughout. The Constitution which… Read more about this item

Marceline, Missouri: Walsworth Publishing [for] Faribault County Bicentennial Commission, 1977. First edition, 4to, pp. 299, [1]; text in double column; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original brown imitation morocco stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.

Dallas: Curtis Media Corp, 1987. First edition, folio, pp. iii, [1], 341, [1]; map endpapers, text in triple column; illustrated throughout; fine copy in original pictorial boards, without a dust jacket, as issued.

[Bloomington, Minnesota]: The Memorial Press, 1995. First edition, 4to, pp. xiii, [1], 517, [1]; portraits throughout, full-page map; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Don Ward on the title page. "Biographies, family comments, 'last letters home,' and photos of over 400 men who were killed in the Vietnam War between 1962 and 1973" (jacket blurb).