Author: Hendrickson, Peter, b. 1842.
Title: Farming med hoved og hænder, eller, Praktisk veiledning for
farmeren.
Published: Chicago: Udgivet af J. Anderson & Co., eiere Skandinaven's boghandel, 1886, c1885.
Spine height: 20 cm.

Notes: Writing so-called "veileder" or handbooks for immigrant farmers was quite common. This particular title deals with raising dairy cows and chickens. It features an elaborate design stamped in black on the front cover. The design stamped in gold on the spine depicts stalks of corn.

Author: Hendrickson, Peter, b. 1842.
Title: Afhandlinger om meieri og kvægavl, eller, Praktisk veiledning i
kvæg-opdrætning...
Published: Chicago: Skandinaven [i.e., John Anderson & Co.], 1887.
Spine height:

Notes: Another one of Hendrickson's handbooks. This title deals with the intricacies of dairy farming and the raising of chickens. The binding decoration features a similar design as that of the previous title, but does not have a spine decoration. Instead it features a border design similar to the one on Rasmus B. Anderson's Julegave (listed in the literary section that follows).

Author: Schøyen, David Monrad,|d1835-1896.
Title:Lovbog for hvermand: ben oversigt over den amerikanske civil - og
privatret.
Published: Chicago: J. Anderson & Co., 1886, c1885.
Spine height: 20 cm.

Notes: David M. Schøyen was a prolific writer for the Norwegian language press. He also wrote several books, including a three-volume history of the United States and this manual on American law. The cover design features an Eastlake design found on many book covers of contemporary American cloth bindings.

Author: Langeland, Knud, 1813-1888.
Title: Nordmændene i Amerika : nogle optegnelser om de norskes
udvandring til Amerika
Published: Chicago, Ill.: J. Anderson, 1889.
Spine height: 20 cm.

Notes: This was a popular book about the Scandinavians in America. It was published in several editions and various bindings, using differing colors of cloth, but always the same design. The design is curiously "primitive" in style: lumberjack is disproportionally large in comparison to hut and trees, and the oxen pulling the plough seem to be moving towards the sky rather into the distance.

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Author: Blegen, John.
Title: Blegen's Veileder og verdens-atlas.
Published: Chicago, Ill.: J. Blegen, c1891.
Spine height: 18 cm.

Notes: This important handbook written for Scandinavian immigrants deals with United States and world history and geography. It features the author's portrait as part of the gold-stamped cover design. Although it was self-published, judging from the border used on the binding, the book was bound in the bindery of John Anderson Pub. Co. where this identical border was used on several other books.

Author: Schjoll, Karl Bernhard, b. 1869.
Title: Vore husdyr.
Published: Chicago, Ill.: J. Anderson Pub. Co., 1902.
Spine height: 21 cm.

Notes: A book about our house pets. Only the spine is cloth. The covers are paste-board, and the front is covered with llustrated glossy paper, a technique just recently developed in continental Europe. A signature appears in the lower right corner of the border: Tolzien, Chicago, Ill. (unidentified).

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Author: Birkeland, Knut Bergesen,| 857-1925.
Title: Paa hvalfangst: fire aar paa jagt efter verdens største dyr.
Published: Minneapolis, Minn.: Augsburg Pub. House, c1924.
Spine height: 21 cm.

Notes: A book about a four-year whaling adventure. The cover design features an intricate gold-stamped design of a whaling boat at sea, framed by two acanthus scrolls, as well--and that is rarely seen by that time on American publishers' cloth bindings--a design on the spine. Here it is the as intricately etched enlargement of the crow's nest of the boat on the front cover.