Preston, Ia: Preston Times Print, 1925. 32pp. plus manuscript leaf laid in. Original printed orange cloth wrappers. Light wear to spine, some fraying at edges. Minor toning and wear to text. Unrecorded local cook book compiled by the Lutheran church of Preston, Iowa, a small town located halfway between Davenport..... More

Chicago: Geographical Publishing Co., [1915]. Folding map, 20.75 x 27.75 inches. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and dust soiling to wraps. Several short separations along fold lines. Handsome map of Iowa, with each county printed in color, delineating all the automobile roads in green. Also titled "Premier Series Map of..... More

Mount Vernon: Warren C. Fisher, [1910]. [24]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor creasing and wear to wraps; two short closed tears and fore-edge of front wrap, repaired with tape. Some tanning and dust soiling. A scarce pictorial promotional for the small Iowa town of Mount Vernon, east of..... More

Des Moines: 1900. Folding pocket map, 9.5 x 12.75 inches; covers 5.5 x 3.25 inches. Original printed card covers. Covers lightly chipped and worn. Minor wear to map. Lovely little map of Iowa, here in promotional covers advertising the Capital Insurance Company of Des Moines. An ominous ad on the..... More

[Des Moines; Wilton: 1869]. Two letters, [6]pp. total. Previously folded. Light tanning. Two 1869 letters addressed to a Thomas C. Goodwin of Newburyport, Massachusetts, that supply advice on emigrating to Iowa. Goodwin seems to have solicited counsel from former Newburyport residents who made the move, as the letters make several..... More

Anamosa, Ia. [1891]. 26pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers worn, spine and edges chipped, soiled. Contents with some wear and soiling, moderate at times. Illustrated catalogue for the mail-order elevator company of Kimball Brothers in Anamosa, Iowa. The company was founded in 1883 when a local grocer wanted an easier way..... More

Sioux City: W.C. Deitch & Co., printers, [1898]. 24pp. 24mo. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear along spine. Partially erased pencil scratch work on rear wrapper. Light tanning. An unrecorded directory for merchants in agriculture and manufacturing along the lines of the Sioux City & Northern and Sioux City, O'Neill..... More

[Council Bluffs, Ia. 1908]. 161,[3]pp. Original printed cloth wrappers. Some wear, scuffing, and creasing to wraps. Light tanning and scattered minor soiling internally. Scarce, early 20th-century community cook book published by the Ladies Aid Society of the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church in Council Bluffs, Iowa. “Four hundred recipes, embracing the..... More

Boone, Ia. Standard Book and Job Office, 1876. [2],51pp. 16mo. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, first two leaves loose at top of spine. Some light wear and soiling, marginal loss and wear to first two leaves. One page with contemporary pasteover in text. By-laws for the Freemason's lodge in Boone..... More

[Burlington, Ia. Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company, ca. 1872]. 24pp. 24mo. Original yellow printed wrappers. Light soiling and wear. Lovely little promotional work advertising lands along the Burlington Route in Nebraska and Iowa. At this time the Burlington Route ran from Burlington, Iowa, across Iowa and Nebraska to Fort..... More

[Various locations in Iowa]: 1894-1895. 149 albumen photographs on twenty cardstock leaves, images measuring 4 x 5 inches. Oblong quarto. Original black cloth, cover gilt; leaves laid in, formerly string-tied. Light wear and soiling to cloth, evidence of slight dampstaining to lower edge of binding and later leaves. Internal numbering..... More

Pesten [i.e., Budapest]: Lauffer es Stolp Kiado Könyvkereskedese Tulajdona, [1858]. 175pp., plus twelve tinted lithograph plates, including frontispiece. Original cloth boards, spine gilt and stamped in blind. Minor patches of discoloration to boards; spine ends and corners lightly worn; front joint starting at head. Scattered pencil annotations. Minor dampstaining to..... More