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Vandeventer Place - Gilded Age Saint Louis
A Social, Economic, Architectural and Urban History of the Legendary Post – Civil War Enclave
by Michael Boyd & Thomas C. Grady

July, 2024

Softbound: $30.00 ($27.00 for Mercantile Members!)

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A Bibliography of The Printery: 
The Private Press of Kay Michael Kramer

By Virginia Kramer and
Timothy Hawley

October 2023

Limited Edition Softbound: $40.00

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Pencils on the Frontier: Sketches by Artist-Explorers in the American West from the Mercantile Library Collection

October 2022

A catalogue collection of works from the exhibition in the Bates Gallery

Paperback: $10.00 

Seventeen and a Half Decades Serving St. Louis and the World: An Informal History of the Mercantile Library, Decade by Productive Decade

April 2022

Softbound: $25.00

 

Travelers, Tracks & Tycoons: The Railroad
in American Legend and Life
 

Harbound: $75.00
($68.00 for Mercantile Members!)

Softbound: $40.00
($35.00 for Mercantile Members!)

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175 Years of Art at the St. Louis  Mercantile Library: A Revised Second Edition of the Handbook to the Collection

Hardbound: $45.00
($40.00 for Mercantile Members!)

Softbound: $30.00
($27.00 for Mercantile Members!)

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A Nation, A City, & Its First Library: Americana as a Way of Life at the St. Louis Mercantile Library for 175 Years

A catalogue collection of works from the exhibition on Levels One and Two, April 2021-April 2022

Hardbound: $45.00
($40.00 for Mercantile Members!)

Artists of the Mississippi & Other Great American Rivers

A catalogue collection of works from the exhibition in the Meier Gallery, on view
January 31 - May 15, 2020

Paperback: $10.00

The Lost St. Louis Riverfront 1930-1943: Including Photos of Individual Buildings
& Building Occupancies With Historical Background and Detail

by Thomas C. Grady

Paperback: $35.00
($30.00 for Mercantile Members!)

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Headlines of History: Historic Newspapers of St. Louis and the World Through the Centuries at the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association 

A catalogue and checklist of the exhibition o n Level One 2017-2019 

Hardcover: $40.00
Paperback: $30.00

Power Clash: PRR vs. B&O Motive Power and Passenger Traffic Competition 1827 - 1962

 

Hard Bound: $80.00

The Steamer  Admiral  and Streckfus Steamers: A Personal View

A new memoir and authoritative history of the great river icon and excursion vessel.
144 Pages, with 62 Photographs from the Captain William F. and Betty Streckfus Carroll Collection at the Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library

Hardcover: $20.00

You Can't Beat the Train
By Robert W. McKnight

$19.95

St. Louis in the Development of the American West

Illustrated text of the Library's first Yeatman Lecture, by Yale University history professor Howard R. Lamar. 32 pp.; b&w illustrations. 9x6".

$10.00

St. Louis and the Mighty Mississippi in the Steamboat Age: The Collected Writings of Ruth Ferris

A spirited anthology of eight articles and lectures by river historian and collector Ruth Ferris. Brought together for the first time, they constitute a history of St. Louis during the golden age of steamboats. 197 pp.; b&w illustrations; 9x6".

$20.00

The Diesel Revolution: Special Millennium of Railroad History

13 incisive articles and appendices--most of which are based on the Barriger Library's Symposium, "Railroad Revolution: How the Diesel Locomotive Changed America"--on the technical, social, and aesthetic impact of the diesel locomotive. 160 pp.; b&w and color illustrations; 9x6”.

$15.00

Stories on Stone: The Darley Lithographs for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle"

A detailed essay on the life and work of Felix Darley precedes 13 faithful reproductions from his most famous work illustrating the stories of Washington Irving. 8 pp.; b&w illustrations; 12.5x15".

$5.00

Adventures and Sufferings: the American Indian Captivity Narrative Through the Centuries, an Exhibition of Books in the Collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library Association at the University of Missouri--St. Louis

A Catalogue and Checklist for an Exhibition December 1, 2002 through January 15, 2003
by John Neal Hoover.

Paperback:  $10.00
Hardcover:  $15.00

My Time There

The Art Colonies of Santa Fe & Taos, New Mexico 1956-2006 : a Memoir of Art, Essays, Letters, and Rare Photos, About Two of America's Most Important Art Colonies. By R.H. Dick.
127 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.

$44.95

A Snail, Peacock, and a Tiger's Eye

Historical Marbled Papers in the Collections of the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri--St. Louis : a Checklist for an Exhibition.Foreword by John Neal Hoover. 32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

$10.00

St. Louis as it is Today

A facsimile reproduction of the 1928 original produced by the Industrial Club and St. Louis Chamber of Commerce. 63 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

$3.00