Kaskaskia, First Edition (9 results)

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Kaskaskia College, Centralia, Illinois, Yearbook, Lens, 1972 Clean, unmarked, looks new. Profusely photograph illustrated. This is NOT a reprint.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. color Map (illustrator). 1st. color map of area from Semonary to Haron, Illinois. Very nice, and suitable for framing. Some seam reinforcement. [2 scans=full image] Size: 16" x 22.5".

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. color Map (illustrator). 1st. color map of area from Brewerville to Evansville.Single sheet suitable for framing; some seam reinforcement [2 scans=full image] Size: 16" x 22.5".

Hard Cover. First Edition. Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Tiny initials and date at top right corner of front endpaper. 103 pages plus a 25 page name index. Signed by the author on the Introduction page. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. First Edition. Very Good Hardcover, original history material 1909.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is lightly creased; some shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice collectible used copy! Book is housed in a hardcover library binding. Very rare and hard-to-find title! Blue wrapper with black lettering and illustration on the front. 202 informative and historical pages nicely enhanced by black and white and full-color photographs and illustrations! Extremely scarce and out-of-print FIRST EDITION! "Stand quietly in the plowed fields and listen to the winds blowing from the rivers. Hold in your hand a small, crudely-cast crucifix of lead which has been earth-stored for two centuries.and you wonder. This is how books come to be written, a few more questions answered, and hopefully, a few more pieces fitted into the intriguing puzzle of man's past. Kaskaskia Indians occupied an area in western Illinois for over a century, moving there in 1703 and first establishing a tribal village along the west bank of the Kaskaskia River about two leagues above its confluence with the Mississippi. This site was on a gradually narrowing strip of land; only two miles to the west was the gnawing channel of the Mississippi. With the Kaskaskia were a number of Frenchmen, the French having been closely associated with the tribe since 1673 when the Jesuits established a mission among them." from the Preface.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. A magazine for collectors and others interested in times past and in articles of daily use and adornment devised by the forefathers. Features: Cover illustration of ascent of James Sadler in a balloon (1811); Hatchment in Needlework (frontispiece illustration); Vanished Kaskaskia; Winged Victory; Trial Balloons; Antiques in Domestic Settings - An Early Colonial Home in Massachusetts; Catalyntje's Clasp; John and William Linnell - Cabinetmakers; The Neglected Portable Writing Desk; The Eighteenth-Century Glass of Britain, Part III; About Collecting in the Middle West; and more. Many pages of nostalgic ads from a broad assortment of prominent dealers. Profusely illustrated with excellent black and white photos. pp. 261-336. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with above-average wear. Covers partly detached. A worthy reference copy of this informative issue. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.