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Description:
Up for sale is a unique, highly collectible lot of four local history, geology, and environmental books focusing on the Indiana Sand Dunes and the surrounding Lake Michigan region. This collection is perfect for historians, regional geologists, or collectors of Midwest Americana.
Books Included in this Lot:
1. The Indiana Sand Dunes and Shore Lines of the Lake Michigan Basin
• Author: George B. Cressey
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press (1928)
• Edition: First Edition
• Details: A foundational geological and geomorphological study of the southern shores of Lake Michigan. Bound in its original brown cloth.
2. Sacred Sands: The Struggle for Community in the Indiana Dunes
• Author: J. Ronald Engel
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press (1986)
• Edition: First Edition (Hardcover without dust jacket)
• Details: A crucial work documenting the cultural, social, and political history behind the preservation of the Indiana Dunes.
3. Up and Down the Dunes
• Author: Emma Bickham Pitcher
• Publisher: Published in memory of Emma Bickham Pitcher / Shirley Heinze Land Trust
• Edition: Second Edition
• Details: A wonderful, beautifully illustrated local naturalist guide regarding the wildlife, birds, and flora of the dunes. Softcover/paperback.
4. Joseph Bailly: Dunes Settler
• Author: Martha Miller (Illustrated by Joyce Keane and Dale Fleming)
• Details: A scarce regional biographical booklet focusing on the fur trader Joseph Bailly, the first non-native resident and settler of the Indiana Dunes area. are pre-owned vintage items showing varying degrees of shelf wear consistent with age. one has a sticker on the back cover, one has a light stamp in it, and the cover of Up and down the dunes has a bit of wear, including a stain on inside of front cover as shown. All are perfectly readble.Text blocks are secure and intact. Please review the high-resolution photo carefully to judge the cosmetic condition of the covers and spines for yourself.Local pickup in the Indiana Dunes is possible to save in shipping: Mssg me first though to make sure we can work it out.
