First Edition. A. A. Wosesser dustjacket art. Novel of the American prairie and life in Nebraska at the turn of the century. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by the author in year of publication at front free endpaper. The inscription reads: "Recalling early days of Nebraska. Keene Abbott. Omaha, 1920". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small spine end and edge chips. Item #14685
First Edition. A partly autobiographical novel of a boy and his childhood experiences & growing consciousness in a small town in Ohio. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket, slight discoloration to lower spine and some mild folding to top edge. Item #17477
First Edition. Eugene Hutchinson photographs. "A fictional panorama of a great region of our country". Uncommon in dustjacket. This copy with top page edge that appears to by dyed orange. Near Fine in Good only edge chipped dustjacket, lacking top two inches of spine, split at front spine edge, scotch tape mends to exterior of lower front panel. Item #23008
First Edition. Jacks dustjacket art. Hubin listed marginal mystery set in a small mid-Western town about a woman who is adored by all men but who may be a murderess. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with nickel size chips to top spine end and lower front edge, a couple of short closed tears to bottom spine end and top rear edge, and two dime size pen ink smears to rear panel. Item #13368
First Edition. Novel of the boomer days of Oklahoma and Kansas. This copy boldly signed by Aydelotte at front endpaper. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, spine colors mildly faded. Item #40870
![Item #40870 Across the Prairie [ SIGNED ]. Dora AYDELOTTE](https://yesterdaysgallery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/40870.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642300801)
First Edition. Novel of the American Midwest and a family's ill fated move off the farm and into town. Uncommon Aydelotte title. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #22550
First Edition. Tale of pioneer life in Indiana, and the affection and devotion between a boy and his horse. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket with light creasing to front panel and light wear to spine ends and corners. Item #17969
First Edition. Tale of pioneer life in Indiana, and the affection and devotion between a boy and his horse. Very Good in Good dustjacket with some fading to colors, some light stain, short closed tears and shallow chips. Item #26823
First Edition. Manitoba set adventure novel of the great Northwest replete with villains and Royal Mounted Police. Listed in Hubin as a marginal mystery. Near Fine in Very Good lightly soiled dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends, small chip at mid-spine. Item #23373
First Edition. "New adventure of Peter Strangely, the lanky Iowa detective, takes place in Paris. Why should anyone decapitate an American woman, and dope a waiter and an imported gunman?" One of only two books by this author, both featuring Strangely. Very scarce. Very Good in nearly Very Good price clipped dustjacket, some fading at spine, vertical crease at spine, some chipping at top spine area. Item #26672
First Edition. Novel "of a sensitive, imaginative youth who lives much alone in the rough hills of Ohio and dreams of a romantic world which his father and his mother constantly remind him exists somewhere, although they themselves had been unable to go to it". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, mild fading to spine. Item #20280
First Edition. Stafford Gand dustjacket art. Love and adventure set in the Wyoming Mountains by this author of several Hubin mystery titles. Burt lived in Wyoming during the summers and drew much of the background for her books during her stays. Seven of her stories were made into silent films. Nice Gand illustration at dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few tiny chips at top spine end. Item #21332
First Edition. John Alanzo Williams dustjacket art and illustrations. Mid western set novel. 'A social and business system which virgually separates husbands from their wives and children'. An uncommon early Canfield title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipping at spine end area, nickel sized chip at top front panel. Item #37407
First Trade Edition. Original tan cloth, with seldom encountered first issue printed dustjacket. Cather's Pulitzer Prize winning novel. "Cather's subtle and flexible style, all the passion of her daring, impatient mind, are lavished upon the presentation of a single figure - a sort of young Hamlet of the prairies - and up on the haunting story of his struggle with life and fate". Very Good, spine darkened, lower spine end cloth worn, in close to Very Good dustjacket despite split along front spine edge (mended at verso by what looks like archival tape), wear at front flap edge, quarter sized chip at top rear panel, chipped at top spine end. Item #601355
First Edition. C. B. Falls dustjacket art. Chronicle of the 52nd year of Godfrey St. Peter, a professor of history at an unnamed Midwestern university in the small town of Hamilton, which borders Lake Michigan. Professor St. Peter has lately finished his magnum opus, a history of the adventures of the Spanish explorers in North America, and he and his wife Lillian are in the process of moving to a new house built with the proceeds of his completed work. Professor St. Peter, however, has grown profoundly attached to his old house. Near Fine, with previous owner signature at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, darkened at spine, several closed tears at lower spine area mended at verso with archival tape, nickel sized chip at top spine end, front flap corners with small chips, some foxing to panels. Item #35810
First Edition. C. B. Falls dustjacket art. Chronicle of the 52nd year of Godfrey St. Peter, a professor of history at an unnamed Midwestern university in the small town of Hamilton, which borders Lake Michigan. Professor St. Peter has lately finished his magnum opus, a history of the adventures of the Spanish explorers in North America, and he and his wife Lillian are in the process of moving to a new house built with the proceeds of his completed work. Professor St. Peter, however, has grown profoundly attached to his old house. Near Fine, with previous owner signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, lettering faded at spine, shallow loss at top spine end, rear panel with some hardly noticeable drip spots. Item #37421
First Edition. Anna Dean dustjacket art. A very uncommon novel set in Butte, Montana. A young man arrives in the city to find work in the mines. A syndicate tries to move in on the company, there's labor, political and newspaper interest, as well as violence (a newspaper reporter is shot). Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips. Item #41201
First Edition. Maurer dustjacket art. Historical novel of people struggling in Ohio during the famine of 1837. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nicked at spine ends. Item #25853
First Edition. John O’Hara Cosgrave II dustjacket art. "Mount Royal is a series of four long novelettes telling the story of the inhabitants of a middle western town in the early days of the present century". Near Fine but for faded spine, in Very Good dustjacket, inch closed tear at lower front panel. Item #24786
First Edition. Romance novel set in the background of the Great Lakes. Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, red at spine has faded to green, couple of small spine end chips. Item #35020
First Edition. Rather scarce Nebraska title. 'Bruce Claggett was just a vagabond, a worthless, wandering young man. It was not until the great wheat fire that tore its way through the heart of his beloved Wheat Ranch that fate gave him the opportunity to be a hero'. Near Fine but for crack at front inner hinge neatly repaired, in Very Good dustjacket, closed tears at top of rear panel. Item #39780
![Item #39780 The Beloved Prodigal, A Wheatland Romance [NEBRASKA NOVEL]. James French DORRANCE](https://yesterdaysgallery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/39780.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619649181)
First Edition, First Issue (and first issue binding) . Franklin Booth illustrations. Author's automobile trip to Indiana. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some old archival tape at verso edges, small chips at spine ends. Item #41716
First Edition. George Salter dustjacket art. Depression Era novel of the Southwest farmers and the Marxist 'invaders' who come to organize them. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #34845
Second Printing (same month as first). Polly Hill dustjacket art. Uncommon mid-western set romance novel in which a virgin woman selling flowers to motorists off the highway meets a tramp whom she nurses back to health, and who turns out to be a despondent aristocrat. 'Crowded with people from all ranks of life, millionaires, vagabonds, bandits, sports champions, and prostitutes'. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, colors modest faded. Item #41021
First Edition. Roese dustjacket art. Collection of short stories set in the American Mid-West by author Edna Ferber's sister and creator of the Fannie Farm cookbooks. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, mild fading at spine, some shallow edge chips. Item #14721
