Good+ with many old folds and wrinkles, tearing at folds. Features large illustration of an English Mastiff on front page, affected by tear but nothing missing. Owner's stamp on front page. ; 16 x 21"; 8 pp View More...
Post Card with standard post card blank verso, printed side showing printer working in print shop + a word puzzle; good+ with two small corner chips, not affecting design or text. ; 3 x 5½"; 1 pp View More...
Wraps, an awards programs, listing all the winners as well as the Board of Directors, with photos and many adverts from local supporters. Very good+.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pp View More...
Wraps, good+ with short tears, shallow chipping, a little rippling to top margin of rear pages. Great photos of the fair. ; Oblong Folio 13¾ x 11½" View More...
Wraps, very good copies. "Published in Connection with The World in Chicago, An Exposition of World-Wide Christian Missions." Text, photos, adverisements. Both covers announce The Great Exposition and Pageant, The Coliseum and Auditorium, May 3 to June 7, 1913. There were 4 issues in total. We are offering the first two.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 29;23 pp View More...
Near fine copy in very good- dust jacket with a triangular 1" chip at head of spine and a 1" chip on the front panel near the bottom of the front spine fold. Very difficult to find in a dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs and maps.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 505 pp View More...
Salesman's dummy copy consisting of ca., 50 sample pages of the forthcoming 850+ page book. Lined blank paper at rear to record names and addresses of subscribers, a silver-stamped pebbled cover along with a silver-stamped spine are also part of the presentation. A very nice copy but for silverfish marks on the front cover near the lower fore-edge and a sunned (unprinted) spine.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall View More...
Facsimile reprint of the 1904 Hammersmark Publishing Compamy edition. A fine copy in very good+ jacket with heat wrinkles on rear wrap (otherwise fine). Altgeld was Governor of Illinois and gave up his career to pardon the Haymarket anarchists. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 132 pp View More...
Good+ with acidic front free endpaper detached (but present, ) front hinge damaged.; Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library Volume XV Biographical Series Volume I; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 435 pp View More...
Very good to near fine copies with bright labels in very good dust jackets with light chipping at top edge. The colorful slipcase has split joints repaired with old tape, thus good. Four stories of old Chicago, set in 1835, 1858, 1856, and 1865-93, ending at the World's Fair.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 78;95;123;98 pp View More...
A little wear showing at the ends of the spine, slight separation between frontispiece and preceding page, a bit shaken, very good+. This copy signed and inscribed to [unnamed recipient] by George A. Schilling, "I present this book in the hope that it will make known to her the life and the martyrdom of a real heroic soul, John P. Altgeld. Chicago, April 28, '27" George A Schilling was a major figure in anarchist circles as well as in the labor and union movement in Chicago. Schilling?s German parents brought him to the US in 1852. After moving to Chicago in 1865, he joined the advertising de... View More...
Fine in fine dust jacket, just lacking freshness. The true story of a Chicago heiress who vanished without a trace.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pp View More...
Wraps, tearing at folds, good+ with lead article "'The Conspiracy' behind the mask. Who? on the Chicago Conspiracy Trials and law, by Sherman Skolnick. ; tabloid 12 x 17"; 7 pp View More...
Wraps, fine copy, signed and inscribed by Drummond. Longtime Chicago newsman inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 251 pp View More...
