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Author: [ABINGDON HIGH SCHOOL]
Title: THE THALIAN. Published by the Senior Class.
Imprint : (Abingdon): Press of the Kodak,
Date: (1912.)
Description: Lg. 8vo, ptd. wrps., 65, (6, advts.), ports., illus.
Price: $25.


Author: Adams, George E.:
Title: RIVERS AND HARBORS. SPEECH OF HON. GEORGE E. ADAMS, of Illinois, in the Ho. Reps. ..Jan. 22, 1887.
Imprint : Wash.,
Date: 1887.
Description: Ptd. wrps. soiled, little worn, 13pp.
Price: $10.


Author: Alvord, Clarence Walworth:
Title: THE OLD KASKASKIA RECORDS. An Address read before the Chicago Historical Society, February 2, 1906.
Imprint : (Chicago: Chicago Historical Society,
Date: 1906.)
Description: Ptd. card covers, 20.8 cm., 1 l., 35-57p., as issued.
Price: $20.


Author: American Baptist Publication Society:
Title: SELECT LIST of New and Standard Theological Works and Text Books used in Theological Seminaries. For Sale by F.G. Thearle, 151 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Illinois. 1882-3. (Cover title.)
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1883.)
Description: Ptd. wrps., 12.3 x 16.6 cm., 19 (1), cut of Society Bldg. on back cover, ptd. circular letter laid in, marginal pinhole, or fine.
Price: $35.


Author: AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION,
Title: THE MONTHLY JOURNAL OF THE ____. Vol. X, Nos. 1-11.
Imprint : Boston, Jan.-Dec.,
Date: 1869.
Description: 12mo, old calf-backed bds. worn, ex-library, with Report of the Western Secretary, Charles H. Brigham, dated Nov. 9, 1869, from Ann Arbor, Mich., pp. 475-487, about his trip to St. Joseph, Mo., to Jacksonville and Quincy, Chicago, & Princeton, Ill., Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Salt Lake City (with a few comments on Mormons, who invited him to preach), and Wisconsin. Rev. Charles Lowe, Ed. of the Unitarian Journal, also gives a brief report on the Western Conference in Quincy with comments on the people there, pp. 413-419; a few marginal tears (paper brittle), 12 issues.
Reference: +The Jan. issue is "YEAR-BOOK OF THE UNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES for 1869," with names and places of ministers & officers, reports on churches, &c.
Price: $50.


Author: Andover Lutheran Church, Andover, Illinois:
Title: YEAR BOOK FOR 1927. Published in the Seventy-Eighth Year of its History.
Imprint : Press of the Orion Times,
Date: (1927.)
Description: Ptd. card wrps., 21.6 cm., 24, stapled, minor marginal stains on last two leaves, or v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Angle, Paul M.:
Title: "HERE I HAVE LIVED." A History of Lincoln's Springfield.
Imprint : Springfield, Ill.,
Date: 1935.
Description: Ed.1, xv, 313, (1), illus., fldg. facs. map of Springfield in 1855, Sources, Index, Presentation copy inscribed by the author, juvenile ink scribble on half-title, or v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 3464.
Price: $35.


Author: [Apostolic Christian Church]
Title: THE VISITOR.
Imprint : (Peoria, Ill.: Apostolic Christian Pub. Co., Schwab Print,
Date: 1928.)
Description: 8vo, orig. cl., Vol.II, #1-12, 1 l. (Index), 287 (1).
Price: $15.


Author: Aronin, Ben:
Title: WALT WHITMAN'S SECRET.
Imprint : Chicago: Argus Books,
Date: 1955.
Description: Ed.1, (8),374, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, vg., dj. repaired.
Price: $35.


Author: Ashley, Hon. J. M.:
Title: REMINISCENCES OF THE GREAT REBELLION. Calhoun, Seward and Lincoln. ADDRESS of Hon. J. M. Ashley, at Memorial Hall, Toledo, Ohio, June 2, 1890.
Imprint : NY.,
Date: (1890.)
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps., 41, in 3/4 red polished calf gilt & marbled bds., fine.
Reference: +Monaghan 1061. "An eyewitness account of events between 1841 & 1865 by an organizer of the Republican Party."
Price: $125.


Author: [B.]
Title: LETTERS FROM ILLINOIS. Princeton, (Ill.) May, 1838. (In "PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT," Vol.II, #10, June 16, 1838.
Imprint : Portland (ME.),
Date: 1838.
Description: Sm. folio newspaper, complete issue, disbound, 2-7/8 columns, "Original Correspondence" heading, "I am now a resident in the northern part of Illinois, ...," with some description of the land, Indian hostilities, "six years ago there was scarcely a house in Princeton. The Indian looked upon it as yet his inheritance..." &c. Signed in print, "B."
Price: $45.


Author: [Baker, E. D. 1811-1861]
Title: ELOQUENCE OF THE FAR WEST. No. 1. MASTERPIECES OF E. D. BAKER. Edited (with Glances at the Orator and His Times) By Oscar T. Shuck.
Imprint : San Francisco: Published by the Editor, (The Murdoch Press),
Date: 1899.
Description: Ed.1, 32mo, recent black buckram gilt, 1l., 336, frontis.-port., Index, a.e.g.
Reference: +An Illinois resident in 1826, Baker studied law, enlisted in the Black Hawk Indian War with Abraham Lincoln (a close friend), was elected to the Ill. State Legislature in 1837, & re-elected. He was a State Senator, 1841-44, elected U.S. Rep. from Springfield in 1844, raised and led an Illinois regiment in the Mexican War as Col., and in 1849 returned to Congress. In 1852 he moved to San Francisco, where he was prominent as lawyer, lecturer, & political speaker. He ran for Congress as Republican in 1859, but was defeated. He then moved to Oregon and became U.S. Senator. He again joined the army as Brig.-General of Vols. in 1861, and was killed on the Battlefield of Ball's Bluff, Va., Oct. 21, 1861. Included are: The Atlantic Cable Address, Broderick Oration, The Reply to Benjamin, At the New York Mass-Meeting, Reply to Breckinridge, and The Defense of Cora, &c. Cowan, p. 28.
Price: $50.


Author: Ballard, Brigadier-General Colin R., C.B., C.M.G.:
Title: THE MILITARY GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An Essay..
Imprint : London: Oxford U. Press,
Date: 1926.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl., (8), 246, 22 maps, Bibliography, Index, spine label removed, no inner markings, good.
Reference: +Monaghan 2832.
Price: $35.


Author: [Barbour, James]
Title: LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF WAR, IN RELATION TO THE LEASES OF LEAD MINES AND SALT SPRINGS. February 22, 1826.
Imprint : Washington: Gales & Seaton,
Date: 1826.
Description: Disbound, 22.1 cm., 19C., 1st S., Doc. 45, 19p., little foxed.
Reference: +Much on MO. mines, & observations of Lt. Martin Thomas on the Illinois Fever River lead mines 100 miles north of Rock Island.
Price: $45.


Author: [Barnes, M.M.]
Title: FROM LOG CABIN TO WHITE HOUSE. The Life Story of Abraham Lincoln. Abridged & Adapted by M.M. Barnes...
Imprint : Lahore, (India),
Date: 1939.
Description: Ptd. wrps. some soiled, 18.2 cm., 3 prel. leaves, 131, (1), slight spinewear.
Reference: +See Monaghan 3605 for the 1938 (1st?) ed., and this 1939 (probably 2d) edition. "An elementary biography...for schools, ..in English."
Price: $25.


Author: Barton, William E.:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND HIS BOOKS. With Selections from the Writings of Lincoln and a Bibliography of Books in Print Relating to Abraham Lincoln.
Imprint : Chicago: Marshall Field & Co.,
Date: 1920.
Description: Ed.1, vellum paper-backed bds., spine letters faded, 108, photo-gravure frontis.-port., t.e.g., uncut, unopened, erased pencil or crayon marks on back cover, good.
Reference: +Monaghan 2437. The books Lincoln read and an essay on his writings.
Price: $40.


Author: Bay, J. Christian, Librarian, The John Crerar Library, Chicago:
Title: THE PICKWICK PAPERS. Some Bibliographical Remarks. An Address ..before the Caxton Club January Sixteenth, 1937.
Imprint : Chicago: The Caxton Club,
Date: 1938.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 250 copies printed by D.B. Upkike at The Merrymount Press, Boston, orig. red blind-stamped cl., spine gilt, 3 prel. leaves, 29, 4 plates, scattered very small spots in back cover gutter, lower edge of front cover, & a very few on spine, but a good copy.
Price: $45.


Author: [Banvard, John]
Title: DESCRIPTION OF BANVARD'S PANORAMA OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND MISSOURI RIVERS, Extensively Known as the "THREE-MILE PAINTING," Exhibiting a View of Country over 3000 MILES IN LENGTH, Extending from the MOUTH OF THE YELLOWSTONE TO THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, Being by far The Largest Picture ever executed by man.
Imprint : London: Printed by W.J. Golbourn, 6 Princes Street, Leicester Square.
Date: 1848.
Description: Orig. ptd. wrps. some soiled, little spinewear, 21.3 cm., 48, good.
Reference: +Howes B-110, 1st English ed. "Life on the Mississippi," pp. 36-44.
Price: $250.


Author: Belford, Clarke & Co.:
Title: BELFORD'S MAGAZINE. Vol.I, #1-6, June, 1888-Nov., 1888.
Imprint : Chicago, NY. & S.F.: Belford, Clarke & Co.,
Date: 1888.
Description: Thick 8vo, 3/4 cont. pol. calf, extremities some worn, outer hinge of front cover cracked, but holding, vi, 976, last 25pp. with medium to dark round stain 1-1/2" in diameter, affecting legibility of only the last page (fiction).
Reference: +With "A Common Case, a Story," by Hamlin Garland, "A Plea for the Negro," by Henry J. Philpott, "American Magazines and Authors," by Julian Hawthorne, articles on protection, agriculture, Shakespeare, poetry by Edgar Saltus, Jas. W. Riley, et al., and Editorials on the LIFE OF LINCOLN by Nicolay & Hay, Harrison's record, & the Death Penalty, Reviews, Literary Notes, &c.
Price: $75.


Author: Blatchford, Frances May (1865-1919):
Title: LETTERS, JOURNALS AND MEMORIES OF E. HUNTINGTON BLATCHFORD Edited by His Sister...Published After Her Death.
Imprint : Chicago: Privately Printed,
Date: 1920.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl. gilt, xiv, (1-4), 5-176, 5 photo-gravure ports., t.e.g., uncut, v.g.
Reference: +E.H.B. was born & raised in Chicago, educated at Amherst College, and law school, Northwestern U.; with letters and a detailed diary of his Spanish-American War experiences in Troop E, Fourth U.S. Cavalry in Honolulu and Manila and conversations with Gen. Hughes; after discharge, he travelled to China, India, Ceylon, & on to the Mid-East, Jerusalem, &c. NUC: NB 0544067; DLC, NcD, MH, NN, ICHi.
Price: $50.


Author: Bruce, H. Addington:
Title: WOMAN IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA.
Imprint : Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.,
Date: 1933.
Description: Revised Ed., x, 3 p.l., 347, illus., ports., Index, v.g.
Reference: +With glowing account of the nursing work for Civil War soldiers of Mother Bickerdyke (of Galesburg, Ill.), with portrait, pp. 206-208.
Price: $25.


Author: [Champney, Julius B(eresford), 1811-]:
Title: HISTORY OF THE CHAMPNEY FAMILY, Containing Sketches, Letters, Reminiscences, &c. Illustrated.
Imprint : Chicago: P.L. Hanscom & Co., Printers,
Date: 1867.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps. worn at spine, 21.7 cm., 76, 4 lith. pls., Coat-of-Arms plate, & one woodcut, good copy.
Reference: +A.I.I.: CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 1139; MWA. With some account of Civil War experiences of several Mass. family members, autobiography of the author, who moved to Illinois from Mass. in 1855. He had been master mechanic on the Fall River & Boston R.R., and took a similar position on the Chicago & Rock Island R.R., and recounts his son's wounding in C.W. battle with 20th IL. Inf. Regt. Also, "Experiences of Fred. W. Champney," in the Civil War, who went from Ga. to Florida, where he joined the Home Guards as orderly sergeant, was arrested, taken to Tallahassee for trial for treason, fined $100., released & told to leave Florida. He was reviled, captured several times, mistreated, but finally arrived in Mass. where he joined Gen. Butler as machinist & engineer, and went out on the ship, "King Fisher." He was part-time captain, and started out on the "Henry Lewis," a boat of 8 guns, then was made captain of a captured rebel boat, "P.C. Wallace," which sank due to leaks. He was at New Orleans at its surrender. An interesting account, among others, and genealogy. NUC: NC 0292899; MB, ICN, MWA.
Price: $250.


Author: Chapin, William:
Title: A COMPLETE GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA; Containing a General View of the United States, and of each State and Territory...
Imprint : NY.: Phelps & Ensign,
Date: 1840.
Description: Orig. blind-stamped cl. binding signed on both covers: Elles & Middlebrook, Binders, 8vo, 347, (iii, Appendix), gilt spine title, endpapers foxed, little rippling of cloth on covers, few cover dampspots, private shelf label on lower spine, very good.
Reference: +A.I. 40-1358, cites 6 copies. Describes Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Chicago, Miss. River, Miss. Valley, Iowa & Oregon Territories, 7c. Buck 322, note.
Price: $200.


Author: Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Title: RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COMPANY, THE ACQUISITION OF ITS TERMINAL FACILITIES AND THE PROPERTIES OF THE CHICAGO AND GREAT WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY, BRIDGEPORT AND SOUTH CHICAGO RAILROAD COMPANY, AND CHICAGO, HARLEM AND BATAVIA RAILWAY COMPANY, AND FOR THE LEASING OF THE SAME TO THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY, AND BY THE LAST NAMED COMPANIES TO THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.
Imprint : N.Y.: Evening Post Job Printing House,
Date: (1891.)
Description: 4to, Ed.1, orig. ptd. wrps. little soiled & worn, iv, 304, v.g.
Price: $85.


Author: [CHICAGO CATTLE AUCTION]
Title: CATALOGUE OF A DRAFT FROM CRETHMERE AND ELMWOOD HERDS OF SHORTHORNS to be sold at Public Auction...Oct. 2, 1889, at Dexter Park, Chicago, Ill. Col. F.M. Wood, Auctioneer.
Imprint : Nashville, Tenn.: Marshall & Bruce, Stationers and Printers.
Date: 1889.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 22.5 cm., 54p., photo-frontis. of 4 shorthorns, fine.
Reference: +With 52 entries.
Price: $45.


Author: CHICAGO IDEAL OPERA COMPANY in
Title: IOLANTHE or the: Peer and the Peri. People's Theatre, Sept. 17, 1883. (Cover title.)
Imprint : Milwaukee: Cramer, Atkens & Cramer,
Date: (1883.)
Description: Green pictorial wrps., 15.2 x 19.4 cm., (13), illus.
Price: $45.


Author: Chicago Scale Co., Manufacturers of every variety of U.S. Standard Scales, Railroad and Warehouse Trucks, Wheelbarrows, &c. 147, 149 and 151 South Jefferson Street, Chicago, Ill.
Title: All barrows of our manufacture are supplied with Jacobs' Patent Wheel...
Imprint : (Chicago?
Date: n.d. (ca. 1890?)
Description: Broadsheet, approx. 48.2 x 13 cm., printed both sides, illus. (incl. 12 views of wheelbarrow), folded, v.g.
Price: $45.


Author: [CHICAGO]
Title: DEPARTMENT OF POLICE. CITY ORDINANCES Governing the Exhibition of Moving Pictures. City of Chicago. (Cover title.)
Imprint : Chicago: Allied Printing Trades Council,
Date: (ca.1915.)
Description: Leaflet, 17.4 x 10.1 cm., (4)p.
Reference: +Gives amended Ordinances passed by the City Council in 1914 and 1915. Very early for motion picture legislation.
Price: $50.


Author: Chittenden, L. E.:
Title: PERSONAL REMINISCENCES 1840-1890 Including some not hitherto published of Lincoln and the War.
Imprint : N.Y.,
Date: 1893.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl., ix, 434, frontis.-port., Index, t.e.g, pvt. bkpl., uncut.
Reference: +Monaghan 1116. "Contains accounts of Lincoln's ancestry, early life, the Armstrong case, Douglas debates, trip to Kansas, administration and religion."
Price: $30.


Author: City Club of Chicago, The:
Title: THE CITY CLUB BULLETIN. Vol. III, July 1, 1909-Dec. 31, 1910. Nos. 1-38.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1911.)
Description: 8vo, orig. buckram, Index, 424, spine extremities some worn, ex-library, good.
Reference: +Articles on transportation, building ordinances, Public Library budget, on Civil Service Extension (by Edgar A. Bancroft), consolidated traction ordinance, Peoria Conference on Government, Graft in San Francisco, Military Situation in Europe, Housing Problem in Chicago, &c.
Price: $30.


Author: Clowes, Ernest S.:
Title: A RESUME OF THE PROBLEMS PRESENTED BY OUR INLAND AND COASTAL WATERWAYS. Including...History & Romance of Our Waterways, The Mississippi System and Its Floods, The Great Lakes.., Proposed St. Lawrence Seaway, Barge Outlets from the Lakes, Atlantic Coast Waterways, Waterways West of the Rockies, The Stake of the Middle West.
Imprint : Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co.,
Date: 1929.
Description: Ed.1, viii, 196, photo-illus., map, Refs., Index, spine faded, v.g.
Reference: +Includes U.S. Court decisions on diversion of water at Chicago.
Price: $35.


Author: [Cody, Hope Reed]
Title: IN MEMORY OF HOPE REED CODY Born, April 14, 1870-Died, November 7, 1899.
Imprint : (Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.,
Date: 1899.)
Description: Ed.1, lg. 8vo, 3/4 cl. & bds. (soiled), 123, frontis.-port., t.e.g., spine extremities worn, good.
Reference: +Born in Naperville, son of Judge Hiram H. Cody, of the 12th Judicial Circuit, H.R. Cody was pres. of Western Amateur Press Assoc., class pres. of Northwestern College at Naperville, chairman of the Political Action Comm. of the Hamilton Club, & pres. of the Club, a Mason, member of the Chicago Bar Assoc. and the Law Club, &c. Rev. F.W. Gunsaulus gave the Address at Funeral Services, followed by Addresses by Judge Orrin A. Carter, & many testimonials.
Price: $25.


Author: Cory, Charles B., Curator, Dept. of Zoology:
Title: THE MAMMALS OF ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN.
Imprint : Chicago,
Date: 1912.
Description: Field Museum of Natural History, Pub. 153, Zoological Series, Vol.XI. Orig. ptd. wrps., thick 8vo, 505, many illus. & maps, Index, uncut, marginal dampstains on back cover and last few leaves.
Price: $45.


Author: Counts, George S., Prof. of Education in Teachers College of Columbia University:
Title: SCHOOL AND SOCIETY IN CHICAGO.
Imprint : NY.: Harcourt, Brace & Co.,
Date: (1928.)
Description: Orig. cl., x, 367, Index, pvt. name in ink on endp., minor blue ink stains on lower edges to p.28, good.
Reference: +Carl Sandburg's poem, "Chicago," quoted on pp. v-vi.
Price: $20.


Author: [Crosby, Frank]
Title: The Great Book!/(Rule)/ Just Published./ LIFE/ OF/ ABRAHAM LINCOLN,/...by Frank Crosby, of the Philadelphia Bar....with Portrait on Steel....AGENTS WANTED...NO BOOK EVER SOLD LIKE IT! (Etc., &c.) Goodspeed & Co., Publishing Agents, No. 6, Masonic Temple, Chicago, Ill., P.O. Box 1802.
Imprint : (Philadelphia,
Date: 1865.)
Description: Broadside, 10 x 22.7 cm., 46 lines of print, fine.
Reference: +Promoting Monaghan 466, which was published by John E. Potter, Philadelphia. This broadside was published also probably in Philadelphia with Goodspeed text added at end.
Price: $35.


Author: Cutts, J. Madison, Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, U.S.A.:
Title: A BRIEF TREATISE UPON CONSTITUTIONAL AND PARTY QUESTIONS, AND THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL PARTIES, as I received it orally from the late Senator Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois.
Imprint : N.Y.: D. Appleton & Co.,
Date: 1866.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl., spine gilt, head of spine some worn, 221, (2, Publisher's advts.), v.g.
Reference: +Includes Right of Suffrage under the Constitution, History of the National Bank, Prohibition of the African Slave Trade, Suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Internal Improvements, Slavery, Acquisitions of Territory by the U.S., The Texas Question, Ill. Central R.R. Bill, Indians, Monroe Doctrine, Pacific R.R., &c. AFRO-AMER. 2893.
Price: $175.


Author: [Debs, Eugene Victor]
Title: SOCIALIST PARTY PLATFORM Adopted by National Convention, May 1912 and by Membership Referendum August 4, 1912. (Caption title.)
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1912.)
Description: 23.2 cm., 4pp., small oval ports. of Debs and Seidel, printed on pulp paper, edges little chipped.
Reference: +Debs' fourth run for President; he won 901,062, or nearly six percent of total votes. See DAB for details on the life of this extraordinary man.
Price: $45.


Author: Dedmon, Emmett:
Title: GREAT ENTERPRISES. 100 Years of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago.
Imprint : NY., Chicago, S.F.: Rand, McNally & Co.,
Date: (1957.)
Description: Ed.1, 1st ptg., 383, ports., illus., Index, dj., fine.
Price: $20.


Author: [DELTA TAU DELTA FRATERNITY]
Title: THIS IS SECRET MATTER. MINUTES OF THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE WESTERN NOME OF THE DELTA TAU DELTA FRATERNITY..at Evanston, Illinois, March 26 and 27, 1896.
Imprint : Evanston, Ill.: Press of Evanston Index,
Date: (1896.)
Description: Ptd. wrps., 21.9 cm., 12pp. (including Constitution of the Western Nome).
Price: $30.


Author: Dittenhoefer, Abram J.:
Title: HOW WE ELECTED LINCOLN. Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time.
Imprint : N.Y. & London: Harper & Brothers,
Date: (1916.)
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. gilt cl., (8), 94, (1), frontis.-piece view of Springfield Lincoln home, facs., v.g.
Reference: +Author was a campaigner for Lincoln in 1860 and a Lincoln Elector in 1864. Monaghan 2236.
Price: $35.


Author: Earhart, Mary:
Title: FRANCES WILLARD From Prayers to Politics.
Imprint : Chicago: U. of Chicago Press,
Date: (1945.)
Description: Ed.1, 2d impression, vi, 418, ports., illus., facs., Notes, Bibliog., Index.
Price: $20.


Author: Earle, Thomas:
Title: THE LIFE, TRAVELS AND OPINIONS OF BENJAMIN LUNDY...with the addition of his pamphlet THE WAR IN TEXAS (1836).
Imprint : N.Y.: A. M. Kelley, Publishers,
Date: 1971.
Description: Reprint of Ed.1, (1847), orig. cl. gilt, 316; 56, (1, Errata), fldg. map, fine.
Reference: +The anti-slavery founder and editor of "The Genius of Universal Emancipation," in July, 1838, left Philadelphia for Illinois, where his children resided, attended an Anti-Slavery Convention at Hennepin, and purchased a printing office at Lowell, Ill. In August, 1839 he contracted a fever and died, buried near Magnolia, Putnam Co., Ill. He was a pioneer in organizing anti-slavery societies, the most active figure in the whole movement in the 1820's. See D.A.B.
Price: $35.


Author: Field, Roswell (Martin) (1851-1919):
Title: THE BONDAGE OF BALLINGER.
Imprint : Chicago-N.Y.-Toronto, (Donnelley & Sons at the Lakeside Press), Fleming H. Revell Co.,
Date: 1903.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. gilt-dec. red cloth, 214, frontis.-port., PRES. COPY, signed by the author, 1903, slightly shaken, or v.g.
Reference: +Kilpatrick & Hoshiko 132. "...a quaint and charming narrative of a man hopelessly afflicted with bibliomania.... in Chicago Ballinger contentedly lives out his years..." By Eugene Field's brother.
Price: $75.


Author: Flanagan, John T., Ed.
Title: AMERICA IS WEST. An Anthology of Middlewestern Life and Literature.
Imprint : Minneapolis,
Date: (1945).
Description: Ed.1, 8vo, vii (7) 677, illus., map, Index, v.g. in edge-worn dj.
Reference: +Writings from Louis Hennepin to A. Lincoln & Carl Sandburg.
Price: $25.


Author: Flinn, John J., Compiler:
Title: OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois, May 1 to October 26, 1893...
Imprint : Chicago: The Columbian Guide Company, 358 Dearborn Street. (Printed by John Anderson Publishing Company, Chicago.
Date: 1893.)
Description: Hand Book Edition, 12mo, orig. plain maroon card covers little worn, 19.2 cm., 192, illus., double-page map at back, v.g.
Reference: +Dybwad & Bliss 1111, a variant, probably preliminary printing without gold print on wrps., or any last (2)p. for visitor's notes.
Price: $50.


Author: [GALESBURG]
Title: Annual Programs of THE MOSAIC CLUB of Galesburg, Illinois, 9th-11th, 18th-19th, 23rd, 26th & 27th Annual Programs.
Imprint : Galesburg, Ill., Mail Printing Co., &c.,
Date: 1903-1921.
Description: Orig. light card covers some soiled, 15.2 x 11.8 cm., from 8 to 12pp. each, List of Members, Constitution, cord tie.
Reference: +Women's club of some twenty members formed to study history, art & literature. Members include Anne F. Hoover, Janet Grieg, Mabel Dow Conger, Grace M. Willis, & others.
Price: EACH, $10.


Author: [GALESBURG]
Title: COOK BOOK Compiled by the Young Ladies Auxiliary Society of the Trinity Ev. Lutheran Church.
Imprint : Galesburg, Illinois.
Date: 1912.
Description: 8vo, ptd. card wrps. (front hinge repaired), 112, illus., many local advts. (some illus.), minor marginal dampstains, some small corners off, a fairly good copy.
Price: $15.


Author: [GENESEO]
Title: HISTORY, CREED--COVENANT AND REGISTER OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Imprint : Geneseo, Illinois, January 1,
Date: 1905.
Description: Ptd. wrps., 23, port. of Pastor Wm. B. Millard, illus., v.g.
Price: $25.


Author: Gerry, Margarita Spalding:
Title: THE TOY SHOP. A Romantic Story of Lincoln the Man.
Imprint : NY. & London: Harper & Brothers,
Date: MCMVIII.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. with color paste-on of Lincoln (rubbed), spine gilt, 50 (1)p., frontis.-port., PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, with added pvt. gift inscription, v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 1582. "A story of toys and tears and laughter."
Price: $40.


Author: Gibson, Wm. D. COMPANY, Chicago:
Title: SPRINGS. (Cover title.) Catalogue No. 7. The Wm. D. Gibson Company. Silas Howe, President, &c. 1800 Clybourn Ave., Cor. Willow St., Chicago. Manufacturers of SPRINGS. Compression-Special Flat-Torson-Extension...for all Purposes.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1921.)
Description: 8vo, ptd. card covers soiled & some worn, title margin soiled, 44, many illus., some marginal dampstains, contents good.
Price: $15.


Author: Gookin, Frederick William:
Title: THE CHICAGO LITERARY CLUB. A History of Its First Fifty Years.
Imprint : Chicago: Printed for the Club, (R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., The Lakeside Press),
Date: 1926.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 250 copies, orig. cl.-backed boards, ptd. spine label, x, 299, ports., illus., Appendices (incl. Officers, Roll of Members, Papers Read, &c.), t.e.g., fine.
Price: $100.


Author: Gordon, Charles Ulysses, Compiler:
Title: WILLIAM McKINLEY. Commemorative Tributes. On Behalf of The Former Members of The Marquette Club.
Imprint : Chicago, Ill.,
Date: Feb., 1942.
Description: Ed.1, 1/300c., orig. cl. sl. worn, small cover dampspot, 166, frontis.-port., illus. (inc. Marquette Club, Index, INSCRIBED & SIGNED by the author on front blank, v.g.
Price: $30.


Author: Gray, James:
Title: THE ILLINOIS. Illustrated by Aaron Gohrod.
Imprint : NY.: Farrar & Rinehart,
Date: (c.1940.)
Description: Orig. cl., x, 355, illus., map, Bibliography, Index, pict. endpapers, spine faded, good.
Reference: +Rivers of America Series.
Price: $20.


Author: Greenlaw, Lowell M.:
Title: GEORGIA FAYE. Story of an American Family.
Imprint : N.Y.: Exposition Press,
Date: (1954.)
Description: Ed.1, 614, frontis.-port., endp. col. maps, Index, dj., v.g.
Reference: +Morrisonville, Illinois in the 1880's, Chicago, music, daughter at U. of Ill., travels, work at Pullman Co.
Price: $25.


Author: [Gregory, John G., Secretary]
Title: PHANTOM CLUB PAPERS. Printed for the Club.
Imprint : Milwaukee,
Date: 1906.
Description: Ed.1, pvt. ptd. for the few members of the Club, 12mo, olive cl. gilt, 127, frontis.-port. of John F. Potter, t.e.g., ink signature of J.V. Quarles on endp., v.g.
Reference: +Includes "Abraham Lincoln," by Judge Joseph V. Quarles, "Alexander Hamilton," by Gerry W. Hazelton, et al.
Price: $50.


Author: Haines, Elijah M.:
Title: A COMPILATION OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS RELATING TO TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION, to which are added Numerous Practical Forms....Fifth Edition, Enlarged and Improved...including the Acts of 1861, with an Appendix.
Imprint : Chicago: E. B. Myers, (successor to D. B. COOKE & Co.
Date: 1862.
Description: 12mo, orig. calf-backed paper-on-bds. (soiled), spine re-inforced with binder's tape, orig. lea. spine label, 292, (1, Index to Appendix), pvt. owner's name in ink on title margin, contents v.g.
Reference: +A.I.I. 565 lists the 1861 edition with 262pp., but not this 1862 ed. Not in NUC.
Price: $250.


Author: Hammond, Rev. Henry L.:
Title: PHILO CARPENTER, February 27, 1805-August 7, 1886. Read before The Chicago Historical Society, July 17, 1888.
Imprint : Chicago: Fergus Printing Co.,
Date: 1888.
Description: Ptd. wrps. chipped, 32, frontis.-port., uncut, unopened, spinewear, good.
Reference: +NUC: NH 0081735; MB, MiD-B, MiD. To Chicago from New York in 1832.
Price: $45.


Author: Harper, William Hudson and Charles H. Ravell:
Title: FIFTY YEARS OF BANKING IN CHICAGO. 1857-1907. The Merchants' Loan and Trust Company.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1907.)
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt-dec. cl., 94, illus., ports., tabs., v.g.
Reference: +Larson 673. With a chapter on Early Banking in Illinois.
Price: $45.


Author: Hazzen, Henry Wilmarth:
Title: FOURTEEN SONNETS & POEMS.
Imprint : Chicago: Privately Printed (at the Lakeside Press),
Date: MDCCCC.
Description: Ed.1, lg. 12mo, orig. ptd. boards little edgeworn, ltd. to 300 copies, 58, frontis. photo-gravure port., t.e.g., uncut, v.g., Dedicated to Mary A. Livermore, with Introduction by her, with details of Mr. Hazzen's life.
Reference: +NUC: NH 0215950; IU, NNC, RPB, ICN.
Price: $50.


Author: Hill, Frederic Trevor:
Title: LINCOLN THE LAWYER.
Imprint : NY: The Century Co., (DeVinne Press),
Date: 1906.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt-dec. cl., corners little bumped, xviii, 332, frontis.-port., ports., illus., facsimiles, good.
Reference: +Monaghan 1502.
Price: $50.


Author: Hinman, Charles G.:
Title: "A PRETTY FAIR VIEW OF THE ELIPHENT" or, Ten Letters by Charles G. Hinman Written During His Trip Overland from Groveland, Illinois, to California in 1849 and His Adventures in the Gold Fields in 1849 and 1850.
Imprint : Chicago: Printed for Everett D. Graff by Gordon Martin,
Date: 1960.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 200 copies for private distribution, cl.-backed bds., ptd. paper label, (ii), 45, photo-frontis., fine.
Price: $150.


Author: Houser, M(artin) L(uther):
Title: THE EDUCATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Imprint : Peoria, Ill.: Pub. by Lester O. Shriver,
Date: 1938.
Description: Ed.1, card covers with portrait, 50, References, Titles of Books Lincoln Studied or Read, List of Books, two marginal ink corrections, v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 3626, var.
Price: $35.


Author: Houston, Bertrand F.:
Title: Bertrand F. Houston Begs to announce that after two years study with eminent teachers in New York City, he is prepared to receive his former pupils and likewise anyone contemplating piano study. Study-404 Seventh Avenue, Peoria, Ill. (Cover title.)
Imprint : (Peoria?
Date: ca. 1889.)
Description: Folder, 16.4 cm., three panels, 5p. text with photo-portrait tipped-on p.2, v.g.
Reference: +With biography, study procedures & terms of tuition.
Price: $15.


Author: Howlett, John R.:
Title: MANUAL OF THE TWENTY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Prepared and Compiled by John R. Howlett, Lanark, Ill.
Imprint : Chicago: Chicago Printing Company,
Date: 1867.
Description: 12mo, orig. blind-stamped cloth with gilt title, 72, a few small worm-holes in spine, signed by the author.
Reference: +ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 1215; DLC, IChi, WHi.
Price: $75.


Author: Hunter, Dr. George:
Title: THE WESTERN JOURNALS OF DR. GEORGE HUNTER, 1796-1805. Edited by John Francis McDermott.
Imprint : Philadelphia, July,
Date: 1963.
Description: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society...New Series, Vol. 53, Part 4, 4to, ptd. card covers, 133, 10 maps, Sources Consulted, Index, Review copy stamp on title margin, outer corners bumped, good copy.
Reference: +Includes Journal by George Hunter of a Tour from Phila. to Kentucky & the Illinois Country (1796).
Price: $30.


Author: ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY,
Title: PUBLICATION NO. IV OF THE ____ for the Year 1900.
Imprint : Springfield,
Date: 1900.
Description: Orig. cl. gilt, (4), 55p.
Reference: +Journal of Proceedings of First Annual Mtg. at Peoria, Field for Archaeological Research by John F. Snyder, Congressional Reminiscences by Gen. James M. Ruggles, Recollections of Stephen A. Douglas by Maj. Geo. M. McConnell, &c.
Price: $35.


Author: Kellogg, A.N. NEWSPAPER CO.
Title: KELLOGG'S LISTS Embracing 1109 Country Weeklies. Wholesale Prices for Wholesale Advertising. Chicago List. St. Louis List. Cleveland List. Kansas City List. Cincinnati List. A.N. KELLOGG NEWSPAPER CO. General Office, 77 & 79 Jackson St., Chicago. Local Offices...St. Louis, Kansas City, Cleveland, Cincinnati, New York. (Cover title.)
Imprint : Shober & Carqueville, Chicago,
Date: (1882.)
Description: Ptd. lith. & dec. wrps. soiled, separated, front wrp. chipped at lower corners, 20 (incl. fr. cover), specimen advts., with frontis.-3-fold COLORED "NEW MAP OF KELLOGG'S LISTS. Illustrating the Situation and Distribution of His Chicago, St. Louis & Cleveland Lists. Kansas City & Cincinnati List. Being also A Revised Railroad Map...1880. Shober & Carqueville, Chicago. (Showing Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, most of Wisconsin & Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, parts of Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas, & New York, with inset showing Arkansas, Mississippi, & parts of Indian Terr., Texas, Tenn. & LA.
Reference: +Map not in Cobb: CHECKLIST OF PRINTED MAPS OF THE MIDDLE WEST TO 1900. Shober & Carqueville imprints are scarce.
Price: $125.


Author: Kilpatrick, William, Secy., Compiler:
Title: RAILROAD AND WAREHOUSE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. Vol.II. & Various Opinions of the Attorney General, 1900-1907.
Imprint : Springfield, Ill.
Date: 1908.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, 174, Index, little spinewear.
Price: $25.


Author: [KNOX COUNTY] Tupper, E.J.:
Title: FARM OWNERSHIP MAP PLAT BOOK AND BUYERS GUIDE.
Imprint : Galesburg, IL,
Date: (1921).
Description: Obl. 4to, ptd. card covers, fldg. map of Knox Co. and 21 township plats, advts. verso constitute practically a local business directory.
Price: $50.


Author: Kremer, Charles E.:
Title: MIKE MONAGHAN. What He Said at the Law Club Dinner.
Imprint : Published by the Law Club of Chicago, (R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., The Lakeside Press),
Date: 1911.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, vellum paper-backed bds. little soiled, 83p.
Price: $35.


Author: Lambert, William H.:
Title: THE FAITH OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. An Address before the Presbyterian Social Union of Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1909.
Imprint : Phila.,
Date: (c.1911.)
Description: Ed.1, cl-backed ptd. bds. little worn at extremities, 32.
Reference: +Monaghan 1987. "...to show Lincoln's belief in God & a refutation of Herndon's and Lamon's allegations." By one of the Big Five Lincoln collectors.
Price: $45.


Author: [Lincoln, Abraham]
Title: Merrill's English Texts. SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS AND ADDRESSES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Ed. with Intro. & Notes by Cornelia Beare, Instructor in English, Wadleigh High School, New York City.
Imprint : New York: Charles E. Merrill Co.,
Date: (1910.)
Description: Ed.1, 24mo, orig. cl., 187, port., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 1907.
Price: $15.


Author: [LOGAN COUNTY]
Title: MAP OF LOGAN COUNTY ILLINOIS Showing Good Roads also Townships in Colors.
Imprint : Lincoln, Illinois: The Star Publishing Co.,
Date: 1916.
Description: Orig. ptd. light boards (corners bumped), 18.3 x 10.5 cm., fine folding colored map, 41.5 x 35 cm.
Reference: +Shows railroads, main highways, electric railway, rivers or streams, city boundary, town, school, church, cemetery.
Price: $45.


Author: Logan, Hon. John A.:
Title: VINDICATION OF THE PRESIDENT. Extract from the Speech of ____, ..in the Senate of the U.S., June 3, 1872, in Reply to Senator Sumner's Attack on President Grant's Administration.
Imprint : (Wash.,
Date: 1872.)
Description: Disbound, 8pp., tipped-into later plain wrps., in 2 cols.
Price: $25.


Author: Maeterlinck, Maurice:
Title: TWELVE SONGS BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK with illustrations by Charles Doudelet. Translated from the French by Martin Schutze.
Imprint : Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher,
Date: MCMII.
Description: Ed.1, ltd. to 400 copies printed on Old Devonshire water-marked paper, vellum-backed pictorial boards little soiled, lg. 8vo, (36, 1), with many beautiful woodcut or linoleum block plates, many with geometric patterns, uncut, signed by the publisher, and with bookplate and ink signature of Roswell Field, dated 1902, contents fine, a very good copy.
Price: $75.


Author: Marquis, Don:
Title: THE BEST OF DON MARQUIS. Intro. by Christopher Morley, Illus. by George Herriman.
Imprint : N.Y.: Doubleday,
Date: 1946.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, xxx, 670, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Archy & Mehitabel, &c.
Price: $20.


Author: Masters, Edgar Lee:
Title: SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY.
Imprint : New York: Macmillan Co., May,
Date: 1915.
Description: Ed.1, 2d ptg., orig. dec. cl. gilt, xvii, 248, (6, advts.), v.g.
Price: $50.


Author: Masters, Edgar Lee:
Title: THE OPEN SEA.
Imprint : N.Y.: Macmillan Co.,
Date: 1921.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl. gilt, vi, 302, pvt. bookplate of Howard Hilles, to whom is INSCRIBED, SIGNED, & DATED Oct. 31, 1922, BY EDGAR LEE MASTERS.
Price: $125.


Author: Maynard, Mila Tupper:
Title: WALT WHITMAN. The Poet of the Wider Selfhood.
Imprint : Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., (The Lakeside Press),
Date: 1903.
Description: Ed.1, cl.-backed ptd. bds., 145, extremities worn.
Price: $25.


Author: McClernand, J. A., of Ill.:
Title: SPEECH OF ____, IN REVIEW OF THE INTERNAL OR DOMESTIC POLICY OF THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT. ...in H.R., Jan. 10, 1848.
Imprint : Wash.: Blair & Rives,
Date: 1848.
Description: Disbound, 8pp. in double cols., minor top marginal dampstains, upper outer edges browned, all text legible.
Reference: +With some history of internal improvements in the U.S.
Price: $35.


Author: [McClernand, John A.]
Title: ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL. [To accompany bill H.R. No. 436.] January 17, 1845. Mr. McClernand, from the Committee on Public Lands, made the following REPORT: The Committee on Public Lands, to whom was referred "A bill granting an additional quantity of land to the State of Illinois, to aid in the completion of the Illinois and Michigan can," ...have had the same under consideration, and respectfully submit the following report and amendment to said bill...
Imprint : (Wash.): Blair & Rives, printers,
Date: 1845.)
Description: Disbound, 28C., 2d S., H.R. Rep. No. 48, 16p., v.g.
Reference: +With historical background, statistics, importance for defence, &c.
Price: $50.


Author: Meakin, Annette M. B.:
Title: WHAT AMERICA IS DOING. Letters from the New World.
Imprint : Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons,
Date: 1911.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. (few cover spots), xvi, (i), 364, 32 (advts.), illus., good.
Reference: +Pp. 95-154, Chicago & IL.
Price: $50.


Author: Morse, Charlotte Ingersoll:
Title: THE UNKNOWN FRIENDS. A Civil War Romance. Letters of My Father and My Mother.
Imprint : Chicago, A. Kroch & Son,
Date: 1948.
Description: Ed.1, 8vo, orig. gilt cl., 110, 2 ports., facsimiles, v.g.
Reference: +Dornbusch IL-35. Eight Illinois Cavalry.
Price: $35.


Author: Needham, James G.:
Title: ONTARIO and Other Verses. Edited by Edith J. Beasley.
Imprint : Ithaca, New York: Published by the Author,
Date: 1953.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. card covers, 89, signed with author's initial on the title, fine.
Reference: +Includes poem series: "At Afterglow-Summers of 1913-19," "In Sunny California-Winter of 1922-23," and "Elsewhere and at Other Times." The last includes "My Native Prairie," and "The Way to Knox," Illinois poems.
Price: $20.


Author: Newcombe, Alfred W.:
Title: ALSON J. STREETER- AN AGRARIAN LIBERAL.
Imprint : N.p.,
Date: (ca.1946.)
Description: 1st sep. ed., Reprinted from "The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society," Dec., 1945, and March, 1946, ptd. card covers, 24.2 cm., 60, footnotes.
Price: $10.


Author: Nicholas, J. Paul:
Title: ASSASSINATIONS THROUGHOUT HISTORY.
Imprint : Chicago: Adams Press,
Date: (1969.)
Description: Ed.1, probably pvt. ptd., orig. pebbled calf gilt, 18.9 cm., 60p., port. of author.
Reference: +Part 9: Reviewing the Lincoln Assassination, pp.44-46, by this Afro-American author. Also, Attempt on Andrew Jackson, assassinations of Pres. McKinley, Medgar Evers, J.F.K., Malcolm X, Martin L. King, Jr., R.F. Kennedy,
Price: $35.


Author: Nolan, Preston N.:
Title: PERTINENT AND IMPERTINENT. By ____, Author of "NOLANISMS."
Imprint : Chicago & Mount Morris,
Date: 1923.
Description: Ed.1, 16mo, in special binding, 3/4 polished gilt calf (extremities some worn), 4 p.l. (blank), (8), 11-50, as printed, INSCRIBED PRES. COPY, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, publisher's 4p. advt. flyer laid in, small marginal piece torn from one blank.
Price: $30.


Author: NORTHERN ILLINOIS NORMAL SCHOOL,
Title: CATALOGUE OF THE ____, and DIXON BUSINESS COLLEGE, DIXON, ILLINOIS. 1889-90...and Announcement for 1890-91.
Imprint : N.p.,
Date: (ca. 1890.)
Description: Ptd. wrps. soiled & some damp-stained, 64 (1), illus. (incl. views of college, & part of Dixon), contents good.
Price: $20.


Author: Norton, Eliot:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. A Lover of Mankind. An Essay..
Imprint : N.Y.: Moffat, Yard and Co.,
Date: 1911.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, 2 p.l., 96 (incl. Notes on sources), frontis.-port., INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Dec., 1911.
Reference: +Monaghan 2006.
Price: $35.


Author: Noyes, Ida E. S.:
Title: OCCASIONAL VERSES AND SENTIMENTS selected from the large number of such productions composed for her friends by IDA E. S. NOYES and now published by her husband, La Verne Noyes, and presented to...intimate friends...
Imprint : N.p. (Chicago?
Date: c.1913.)
Description: Polished calf-backed silk-on-boards (some spinewear), 12mo, 58 leaves, frontis.-port., facs., t.e.g., corners bumped, good.
Reference: +With account of Mr. Noyes' memorial gift of $300,000. to the U. of Chicago, tributes, and much of her poetry on various public occasions in Illinois, a 1909 poem on Lincoln, poems relating to the U.S. Daughters of 1812, D.A.R., &c. Laid in is a small 7-p. printed work, "Extracts from a letter by La Verne Noyes to his wife, read at the luncheon following laying of the cornerstone of Ida Noyes Hall, April 17, 1915," citing more memorials to Mrs. Noyes, who was active in Chicago social and civic affairs.
Price: $45.


Author: [Oakleaf, Jos. B.]
Title: IN MEMORIAM JOSEPH BENJAMIN OAKLEAF. October 1, 1858-June 2, 1930.
Imprint : (Peoria, Illinois: Printed for the Oakwood Lincoln Club by Edward J. Jacob,
Date: 1930.)
Description: Ed.1, (printed in a small edition), orig. ptd. card covers, (11), tipped-in frontis.-port., purple ribbon tie, fine.
Reference: +With short biography of this Lincoln bibliographer and collector.
Price: $45.


Author: Phillips, Isaac Newton, Reporter of Decisions of the Illinois Supreme Court:
Title: LINCOLN.
Imprint : Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co.,
Date: 1910.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl.-backed bds. with paste-on port., 4 p.l., 117, frontis.-port. uncolored.
Reference: +Monaghan 1947, var.
Price: $20.


Author: Pillsbury, Albert E.:
Title: LINCOLN AND SLAVERY.
Imprint : Boston & NY.: Houghton Mifflin Co.,
Date: 1913.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl. gilt, 3 p.l., 96, (1).
Reference: +Monaghan 2101. "Lincoln's attitude proved by his actions and his words." Blockson 9667.
Price: $45.


Author: Power, John Carroll:
Title: ABRAHAM LINCOLN. HIS LIFE, PUBLIC SERVICES, DEATH AND GREAT FUNERAL CORTEGE, with a History and Description of the National Lincoln Monument, with an Appendix.
Imprint : Chicago and Springfield, Ill.: H.W. Rokker,
Date: 1889.
Description: Orig. cl. some soiled, back cover marginal dampstains, 12mo, xv, (16)-458, frontis.-port., illus., fldg. map, pvt. name in ink, two printed advt. pieces for the book laid in, good.
Reference: +Monaghan 944.
Price: $65.


Author: Prince, Ezra M., Ed.:
Title: TRANSACTIONS OF THE McLEAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Bloomington, Illinois. Meeting of May 29, 1900 Commemorative of the Convention of May 29, 1856 That Organized the Republican Party in the State of Illinois. Vol.III.
Imprint : Bloomington, Illinois: Pantagraph Printing & Stationery Co.,
Date: 1900.
Description: Ed.1, orig. gilt cl., 184, frontis.-port. of Lincoln, map, illus., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 1299. "History of the conventions of 1854 and 1856, the Know-Nothing resolutions and Lincoln's part in the formation of the Republican Party."
Price: $50.


Author: Randall, Ruth Painter:
Title: I MARY. A Biography of the Girl Who Married Abraham Lincoln.
Imprint : Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co.,
Date: (1959.)
Description: Ed.1, 6 p.l., 242, ports., Index, v.g. in worn dj.
Reference: +Juvenile.
Price: $20.


Author: Republican Congressional Committee:
Title: PRESIDENT GRANT. His Official Record as a Statesman. Extracts from His Annual Messages.
Imprint : (Wash.: Republican Congressional Committee,
Date: 1872.)
Description: 8vo, stitched, 12p., later plain wrps.
Price: $35.


Author: Rhodes, Richard:
Title: THE INLAND GROUND. An Evocation of the American Middle West.
Imprint : NY: Atheneum,
Date: 1970.
Description: Ed.1, (8), 351 (1), Illus. by Bill Greer, dj., v.g.
Price: $10.


Author: Rogers, Henry M., Late Acting Assistant Paymaster U.S. Navy:
Title: AMERICA IN TWO WARS. Reprinted from The Harvard Graduates' Magazine June, 1927. An address delivered ..at a Meeting of the Commandery of the State of Pennsylvania Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.. Union League Club, Phila., "Navy Day" Oct. 27, 1926.
Imprint : N.p.,
Date: (1926.)
Description: Ptd. wrps., 24.2 cm., title + 5p., Wm. E. Barton Lincoln bkpl. Personal recollections of Abraham Lincoln.
Price: $35.


Author: Root, Geo. F.:
Title: THE MUSICAL CURRICULUM.
Imprint : Chicago: Root & Cady, 67 Washington Street.
Date: 1867.
Description: Ed.1, Book IV, 4to, 28.2 x 25.5 cm., orig. cl.-backed green printed boards some soiled & worn at extremities, pp.184-239, some explanatory text with many musical examples (some full-page), spine worn, a good copy.
Reference: +A.I.I. ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 1253 cites only the Dicke copy of Book I; Books II-IV, listed with Book I on the front cover of our Book IV are not listed in A.I.I. A fugitive remnant of this prolific Chicago music publisher. Not in NUC.
Price: $125.


Author: Shook, Chester R.:
Title: THE LINCOLN STORY As Told by Chester R. Shook.
Imprint : Cincinnati, Ohio,
Date: (1950).
Description: 2d ptg., orig. cl., xv, 138, References, ports., illus.
Price: $10.


Author: Simons, Hi:
Title: ORIOLES AND BLACKBIRDS.
Imprint : Chicago: Will Ransom,
Date: MCMXXII.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, #6/280 copies on Kelmscott hand-made paper, ptd. on a hand press, composition, lettering, & presswork by Will Ransom, assisted by Edmond A. Hunt, Ransom's 4th book, signed by him, Dec. 14, 1922, cl.-backed boards, little edgewear, front board lower corner bumped (paper & some board worn away for one inch), else good, inscribed to George Steele Seymour; signed by Hi Simons.
Price: $45.


Author: Smith, Brigadier General James B., Adjutant General:
Title: ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT Containing the Complete Muster-Out Rolls of the Illinois Volunteers who served in the SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR 1898 and 1899.
Imprint : Springfield, Ill.,
Date: 1902.
Description: Thick 8vo, Vol.I, 1898-1899, 1st & 2d Infantry, orig. cl. soiled, rubbed, 809.
Price: $30.


Author: Smith, Nicholas:
Title: SONGS FROM THE HEARTS OF WOMEN. 100 Famous Hymns & their Writers.
Imprint : Chicago: A.C. McClurg,
Date: 1903.
Description: Ed.1, col. & gilt-dec. cl. sl. soiled, xviii, 271, Index, t.e.g., uncut, one leaf carelessly opened, quite good.
Price: $25.


Author: Spears, Zarel C. & Robert S. Barton:
Title: BERRY AND LINCOLN-FRONTIER MERCHANTS. The Store that "Winked Out."
Imprint : NY: Stratford House,
Date: 1947.
Description: Ed.1, 140, illus., facs., ports., Notes & Refs., Index, spine faded, v.g.
Price: $20.


Author: [Stone, Herbert S. & Company]
Title: ESSAYS FROM THE CHAP-BOOK Being a MISCELLANY of Curious and interesting Tales, Histories, &c. newly composed by Many Celebrated Writers...
Imprint : Chicago: Printed for Herbert S. Stone & Co. (at The Lakeside Press),
Date: 1896.
Description: Ed.1, col. pict. lithographed cl. (lady walking reads a book), vi, 1l., 5-262, (10, advts.), t.e.g., uncut, pvt. bkpl., v.g.
Reference: +Works by H.H. Boyesen (on Ibsen's play, "Eyolf"), J. Burroughs, Mrs. Reginald DeKoven, Alice M. Earle, Lewis E. Gates, Edmund Gosse, Louise I. Guiney, Norman Hapgood, T.W. Higginson, Laurence Jerrold, Hamilton W. Mabie, Louise C. Moulton, Eve B. Simpson, R.H. Stoddard, & Maurice Thompson (3). B.A.L. 1291 (Boyesen) & 20044. Kramer, HIST. OF STONE & KIMBALL 119. This is one of only three S. & K. cloth covers pictorially illustrated by lithography.
Price: $50.


Author: Tracy, Gilbert Avery:
Title: UNCOLLECTED LETTERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.. Intro. by Ida M. Tarbell.
Imprint : Boston & NY.,
Date: 1917.
Description: Ed.1, xxi, 264, port., facs., Index, t.e.g., v.g.
Reference: +Monaghan 2346. "A supplement to Nicolay & Hay.."
Price: $35.


Author: Treat, Samuel H., Walter B. Scates and Robert S. Blackwell, Compilers:
Title: THE STATUTES OF ILLINOIS, Embracing all of the General Laws of the State, in force December 1, 1857, with Marginal Notes, showing the Contents of each Section, and ...DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT upon the construction of each statute.
Imprint : Chicago: D.B. Cooke & Co., Law Book Publishers,
Date: 1858.
Description: Thick 8vo, one volume, orig. calf rubbed & worn, outer front hinge starting, but holding, two leather spine labels, xxviii, 2l., 1464, Index, one signature slightly pulled, a quite used, but sound copy.
Reference: +Byrd 2930; ICHi, ICN, IU, MH-L, NN. A.I.I. ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 330. "Two volumes, paged continuously." ICHi. ICJ. ICN. IU. MH-L. NN. Includes 15 references to Negroes, 4 to Slavery, 10 to Slaves and Servants, one to Immigration of Slaves-how punished, 9 to Indians and Indian Tribes, 3 to "Runaway" Negroes & Slaves, one to "Freemen. Free negroes, duty of."
Price: $200.


Author: Trovillion, Violet & Hal W.:
Title: THE PRIVATE PRESS AS A DIVERSION.
Imprint : Herrin, Ill.: Trovillion Private Press,
Date: 1937.
Description: Ed.1, ltd.to 147 copies, 82, (8), illus., Index, PRES. COPY SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS, fine.
Price: $75.


Author: Turner, Hon. T.J., of Illinois:
Title: THE WAR WITH MEXICO. SPEECH OF ____, in H.R., April 6, 1848.
Imprint : (Wash.): Congressional Globe Office,
Date: (1848.)
Description: Disbound, 7p. in 2 cols., minor foxing, or v.g.
Reference: +Supports Pres. Polk.
Price: $45.


Author: Turner, T.J., of Ill.:
Title: INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. SPEECH OF HON. ____, in H.R., July 6, 1848, on the Resolutions reported by the Committee on Commerce in relation to Internal Improvements, the President's veto Message, &c.
Imprint : Wash.: Congressional Globe Office,
Date: (1848.)
Description: Disbound, 8p. in 2 cols., v.g.
Reference: +Quotes a letter of Silas Wright in reply to an invitation to attend the River & Harbor Convention at Chicago, discussing internal improvements and the right of the U.S. government to do them.
Price: $45.


Author: Tweedie, Mrs. Alec:
Title: AMERICA AS I SAW IT or AMERICA REVISITED.
Imprint : NY.: Macmillan,
Date: 1913.
Description: Ed.1, orig. red cl. gilt, xiv, 1l., 475 + advts., port., photo-illus., illus., cartoons, t.e.g., v.g.
Reference: +From NYC, Boston, D.C. to Chicago, N.O. (much on Afro-Americans), comments on women, status, classes, customs, transportation, &c.
Price: $50.


Author: [Union Carbide Co.]
Title: STORY OF ACETYLENE. The new illuminating gas.
Imprint : (Chicago: Rogers and Wells, Engravers and Printers,
Date: c.1900.)
Description: Pictorial wrps., 16.2 x 8.6 cm., 31, (1), illus., v.g.
Price: $15.


Author: Vickers, Robert H.:
Title: FIAT SILVER. Its ruinous effects shown in history.
Imprint : Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Co.,
Date: 1895.
Description: Ed.1, silver-printed wrps., 15.1 x 11.8 cm., 115p., Index, v.g.
Reference: +Series title: AMERICAN POLITICS, Vol.I, No.1, May, 1895. With detailed history of world coinage and currency.
Price: $35.


Author: Wagner, Charles:
Title: MY IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. Translated from the French by Mary Louise Hendee.
Imprint : NY.: McClure, Phillips,
Date: Mcmvi.
Description: Ed.1, 12mo, orig. cl. gilt, vii, 301, t.e.g., uncut, v.g.
Reference: +Voyage to NYC, city sights, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery & Irving's home, the White House, Bible in the U.S., "Our Black Brothers," public education, colleges, Quakers, Bowery Mission, Chap.38: Chicago Stock-Yards, p.246-249, train to Minneapolis, comments on American life, &c. Not in Monaghan.
Price: $25.


Author: Wasson, B. F.:
Title: THE WASSON CONSTRUCTION SIGNAL RULES. (Cover title.)
Imprint : Clinton, Illinois,
Date: Copyrighted Feb., 1911.
Description: Ptd. card covers, 15 x 8.5 cm., 20, port., illus.
Reference: +By Pres., National Telephone & Electric Co., exhibitor of the Evolution of the Telephone at World's Fair, St. Louis, Mo., for which he received the gold medal. Inventor of the Wasson Reel and author of the Wasson Signal System.
Price: $25.


Author: Webster, Martha Farnham:
Title: SEVENTY-FIVE SIGNIFICANT YEARS. THE STORY OF KNOX COLLEGE. 1837-1912.
Imprint : Galesburg, Ill.: Wagoner Printing Co.,
Date: 1912.
Description: Ed.1, orig. purple gilt-dec. cl., viii, 210, many ports., illus., v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: Williams, Francis Churchill:
Title: THE CAPTAIN. Illus. by Arthur I. Keller.
Imprint : Boston: Lothrop Publishing Co.,
Date: (Jan., 1903).
Description: Ed.1, 439+ advts., 4 b.-w. illus., v.g. in the scarce ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (some worn & soiled, small hole).
Reference: +Kilpatrick & Hoshiko 237. "The Captain" was Ulysses S. Grant with a Civil War background.
Price: $45.


Author: [Woodbury Drug Company, Danville, Ill.]
Title: 50 YEARS IN ONE ROOM. The Same Ground. The Same Room. The Same Firm. The Same Business. (Cover title.)
Imprint : N.p.,
Date: (1910.)
Description: Orig. ptd. wrps. taped at spine (small piece missing from upper cover corner at spine), 17, (3, advts.), photo-illus., ports. of W.W.R. Woodbury and of Lincoln and facsimile of a related 1854 Lincoln mss. letter to Woodbury; fldg. broadside advt. dated 1910 laid in, good.
Price: $50.


Author: Wright, William Ward, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
Title: ELEAZER WILLIAMS NOT THE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE. A LECTURE..before the Chicago Hist. Society Dec.4, 1902.
Imprint : Chicago: Fergus,
Date: 1903.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps. some soiled, 35, port.
Reference: +Interesting native American history & some genealogy. Eleazer Williams was evidently of Indian and New England extraction.
Price: $45.


Author: Wrigley, Wm., Jr. & Co., 117 & 119 Kinzie St., Chicago:
Title: SNAPS FOR CASH BUYERS. CATALOGUE "F" -Musical Goods.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: ca. 1900?)
Description: Ptd. wrps. little soiled, 23.4 x 18.3 cm., 32, profusely illus. (pianos, organs, & many other musical instruments), with inserted illus. broadside flyer for the Cupid Sewing Machine.
Reference: +Not in Romaine.
Price: $35.


Author: Young, (Richard Montgomery):
Title: IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. Jan. 25, 1839. Mr. Young made the following REPORT: [To accompany Senate bill No. 96.] The Committee on Roads and Canals, to which was referred the bill "granting to the Mississippi and Rock River Canal Company a portion of the public lands for the purposes herein expressed," report:
Imprint : (Wash.) Blair & Rives, printers,
Date: (1839.)
Description: Disbound, 25th C., 3d S., Sen. Doc. 172, 7p., v.g.
Reference: +M. & R.R. Canal was incorporated by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois on Feb. 21, 1837, to connect the navigable waters of the Mississippi and Rock rivers, commencing on the Mississippi River 16 miles above the Rock River. Text of the Act is included.
Price: $35.


Author: Halper, Albert, Ed.:
Title: THE CHICAGO CRIME BOOK.
Imprint : Cleveland & NY.,
Date: (1967).
Description: Ed.1, 521, many photo-illus., pvt. bkpl., dj.
Price: $35.


Author: Bridge, Norman, M.D., A.M., LL.D.:
Title: THE MARCHING YEARS.
Imprint : NY.: Duffield & Co.,
Date: 1920.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, (8), 292, frontis.-port., List of Papers & Publications by Dr. Bridge., uncut, partly unopened.
Reference: +Some genealogy, move to Ill. in 1856, to a farm in DeKalb Co., then to Sycamore, school under Principal Blanchard's administration, medical education at U. Mich. & Chicago Medical College, graduating in 1868, teaching at the latter and at Rush College 1871-1905. Chapters on Cook Co. Hospital, The Medical Press (in Chicago & elsewhere), Bd. of Education of Chicago, Chicago Charity, Chicago, California, War Time Activities (W.W.I), Music, &c.
Price: $35.


Author: Millea, Rev. Thomas V.:
Title: GHETTO FEVER.
Imprint : Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co.,
Date: (1968).
Description: Ed.1, viii, 166,
Reference: +A white Catholic priest tells of three years in Lawndale ghetto, Dr. King's visit, church segregation, Vietnam & Lawndale, &c.
Price: $25.


Author: Chicago Tribune:
Title: CHICAGO TRIBUNE GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD'S FAIR. A Selection of Gems of the White City Seen Through the Tribune's Camera...
Imprint : Chicago: Laird & Lee,
Date: 1893.
Description: Light pictorial canary card covers with title overprinted in red little soiled & worn, oblong sm. 12mo, 12.4 x 17 cm., title + 192 b/w. photo-illus., good.
Reference: +Dybwad & Bliss 1593.
Price: $35.


Author: Gresham, Dr. Perry E.:
Title: THE BRONCHO THAT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN. Footnotes to Disciple History Number 6.
Imprint : Nashville, Tenn.: Disciples of Christ Historical Society,
Date: 1986.
Description: Ptd. card covers, 24, Bibliog. notes, fine.
Reference: +Vachel Lindsay's life & poems.
Price: $15.


Author: [Bliss, H. L., Author of "Coin's Financial Fraud."]
Title: FREE SILVER AND THE WORKINGMAN. "A Teacher Should Be Ready to Answer Questions." PERTINENT QUESTIONS Submitted to Gov. John P. Altgeld In an Open Letter Published in the Chicago Chronicle of May 2, 1896.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1896.)
Description: Disbound, 21.5 cm., 7, (1, with two cartoons), on pulp paper, few marginal tears, lower front corners chipped, with no loss except printer's slug on back page, leaving only "ld Print, Chicago." Notes Altgeld's criticism of John G. Carlisle's speech. of April 15, 1896. (WITH) Carlisle on the Ratio of 16 to 1. SPEECH OF Hon. John G. Carlisle before the WORKINGMEN OF CHICAGO. April 15, 1896. Printed as Senate Document No. 256 on the Motion of Senator Vilas, of Wisconsin, May 14, 1896. Washington, D.C. (Cover title.) Disbound, 22.2 cm., 18 (2, blank), n.p. (Chicago?), 1896, printed on pulp paper, lower blank corners chipped. The two,
Price: $35.


Author: Reps, John W.:
Title: CITIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI: 19th CENTURY IMAGES OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT. With Modern Photographs from the Air by Alex MacLean.
Imprint : Columbia & London: U. MO. Press,
Date: 1994.
Description: Ed.1, obl. sm. folio, (8), 342, col. frontis., many color pls. +63 b/w illus., Bibliog., Index, dj., fine.
Reference: +Views from Mouth of the Miss. River & N.O. to St. Paul & Minneapolis; one col. view of Warsaw, Ill., 4 views of Nauvoo (2 col.l, 2 b/w); also, Mormon history. A very beautiful book.
Price: $40.


Author: Tarbell, Ida M.:
Title: THE EARLY LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Containing Many Unpublished Reminiscences of Lincoln's Early Friends. Assisted by J. McCan Davis with 160 illus. including 20 Portraits of Lincoln.
Imprint : N.Y.: S.S. McClure, Limited, London,
Date: 1896.
Description: Ed.1, orig. pebbled black cloth gilt, 240, illus., ports., one very small front cover gouge, endpapers some browned, small pvt. namestamp, very good.
Reference: +Monaghan 1210. "Many illustrations of New Salem folk and the site as it appeared in the 1890's."
Price: $45.


Author: Crary, A(lbert) M.:
Title: THE A.M. CRARY MEMOIRS AND MEMORANDA. Written by Himself.
Imprint : Herington, Kansas: The Herington Times Printers,
Date: (c.1915).
Description: Ed.1, orig. black gilt cl. with some dampstains, (8) 164, (3, incl. Index), frontis.-port. + 3 pls., genealogy. Few marginal stains, a good copy.
Reference: +With the 75th Ill. Vol. Inf., pp. 68-114. Not in Dornbusch, who lists only one account of the 75th. Graff, or Eberstadt. Genealogy, pp. 128-145. Howes C-866. "aa." Flake-Draper Suppl. 2575a. "Elder Childs and Brother Johnny," p.40-42. Mormon proselyting in St. Lawrence County.
Price: $175.


Author: [LANCET, THE]
Title: REPORT OF THE LANCET SPECIAL SANITARY COMMISSION OF INQUIRY CONCERNING THE WATER SUPPLY OF CHICAGO, USA. (Reprinted from THE LANCET, of April 8, 1893.) (Cover title.)
Imprint : London: Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.,
Date: 1893.
Description: 4to, 28.5 cm., ptd. wrps. little soiled, 19, illus., ptd. in 2 cols., stapled, was folded, v.g.
Price: $35.


Author: [American Home Missionary Society]
Title: OUR COUNTRY; ITS CAPABILITIES, ITS PERILS, AND ITS HOPE. Being a Pleas for the Early Establishment of Gospel Institutions in the Destitute Portions of the United States.
Imprint : New York. Published by the Executive Commiteee of the American Home Missionary Society.
Date: 1842.
Description: 12mo, lacks orig. wrps., 19.1 cm., 60p., ex-library with release.
Reference: +A.I. 42-133; MBAT; PPL. No. 2 of this series was issued in 1858. Not in Flake. "Mormons and Mormon Tenets," pp.47-49 in small type. Five general tenets are given, some discussion, and "..They expect to soon to be strong enough, with the aid of the Indians, to meet Missouri in battle array. Every one that embraces the system in as ready to fight as were the Israelites under Joshua..." In 1842 Joseph & Hyrum Smith & other Mormons resided in Nauvoo, having fled several years before from strife in Missouri. Sabin 57914.
Price: $175.


Author: [Whitehouse, Henry J.]
Title: CORRESPONDENCE. Printed for Private Use. (Cover title.)
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: 1869.)
Description: Ed.1, ptd. wrps. chipped at top margin of fr. cover & top corners of back cover with no text loss, 12pp.
Reference: +Not in ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS. Letters between Bishop Whitehouse, of Ill. and Asst. Bishop George T. Cummins, of Ky. concerning the propriety of the latter to preach in Chicago for a society "for the Promotion of Evangelical Religion in the Northwest."
Price: $75.


Author: Lloyd, Henry Demarest:
Title: MEN, THE WORKERS.
Imprint : NY.: Doubleday, Page & Co.,
Date: 1909.
Description: Ed.1, orig. cl. gilt, viii, 280, frontis.-port. of Lloyd and John Mitchell, Index, Errata slip laid in referring to a quotation by Abraham Lincoln on the importance of labour over capital, corners bumped, or v.g.
Reference: +Articles & addresses on the Labour Movement by Lloyd, including "Illinois Factory Law Speech," 1894; two speeches re Eugene V. Debs, Illinois coal miners, &c.
Price: $50.


Author: Starr, Merritt:
Title: THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: c.1919.)
Description: Ed.1, (A summary of the Memorial Address at Winnetka, Ill., Jan. 12, 1919.), ptd. light card cover edges chipped, title + 28p., cord tie,
Price: $20.


Author: Committee of Racial Equality. 6458 Evans Ave.- Chicago, Ill.
Title: THE AMERICAN RED CROSS AND NEGRO BLOOD. Background for Action Pamphlet No. I.
Imprint : (Chicago,
Date: ca. 1943.)
Description: Ed.1, cover + twelve 8-1/2 x 11" sheets mimeographed rectos only, folded in half, smaller printed CORE broadside inserted (22.5 cm.), entitled, "The Red Cross and Its Jim Crow Policy," stapled, good.
Price: $50.


Author: Haines, Charlotte M.:
Title: SUCCESS WITH FLOWERS. Written and Prepared with the Best Wishes of Charlotte M. Haines, Rockford, Illinois.
Imprint : N.p. (Rockford?),
Date: n.d. (ca. 1910-1920?).
Description: Orig. ptd. pict. wrps. (port. of author), 15.3 x 9 cm., 24p., b/w floral illus., stapled, v.g.
Reference: +" Have your friends ask for my catalog...Seeds Grown by a Woman."
Price: $10.


Author: Art Institute of Chicago:
Title: CATALOG OF THE ART SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO. 1931-1932.
Imprint : (Chicago?
Date: 1931.)
Description: Pict. ptd. blue wrps. little soiled, 77, num. illus.
Price: $20.


Author: United States Military Aeronautics School.
Title: Photo Album.
Imprint : (Urbana, Illinois,
Date: 1916-18.)
Description: 4to, old 3-ring album, black cl. covers quite worn, with 44 original photographs mounted on plain paper, of uniformed airmen in classes, airplanes, diagram of bombs, group photos with inked names, Hyslope's Office 307 Physics, outdoor tents, graduation, large port. of Col. (no name), &c., some leaves loose, photographs are quite good.
Reference: +W.W.I U.S. aeronautics school photographs at U. of Illinois.
Price: $250.


Author: Abbott, Edith, Chairman, Committee on Crime of the Illinois State Conference of Charities, Alton, 1916:
Title: THE ONE HUNDRED AND ONE COUNTY JAILS OF ILLINOIS AND WHY THEY OUGHT TO BE ABOLISHED.
Imprint : Chicago, Issued by the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago.
Date: 1916.
Description: Ed.1, ptd. card covers sl. soiled, 22.8 cm., 23p.
Reference: +A disturbing examination of facilities.
Price: $35.


Author: [CURRAN & WOLFF]
Title: THE CELEBRATED EXCELSIOR AND CHICAGO LUMBER DRYER is built under (16) Sixteen Patents. CURRAN & WOLFF, Proprietors and Builders, Nos. 39 & 41 Franklin St., Chicago, Ill.
Imprint : Clark & Edwards, Printers, 162 and 164 Clark Street, Chicago.
Date: 1881.
Description: Orig. pictorial ptd. light green wrappers, 22.8 cm., 23 (1)p., many illus. & testimonials, lower outside corner little gnawed, but a good copy. Laid in is a separate leaflet, "The Excelsior and Chicago Lumber Dryer," illus., 21.8 cm., (4)p., fine.
Reference: +Not in Romaine.
Price: $100.


Author: [International Harvester Company Inc., Chicago, Ill.]
Title: McCORMICK-DEERING ALL-STEEL MANURE SPREADER NO. 4-A.
Imprint : N.p. (Chicago?
Date: 1911.)
Description: Large illustrated broadsheet printed in red and black on glazed paper, 60 x 22.5 cm., folded to 15.3 x 22.7 cm. for mailing, many photo-illus. (two large ones of No.4-A), diagram, printed text, specifications, &c. Very good copy.
Price: $75.


Author: [World's Columbian Exposition]
Title: FAME'S TRIBUTE TO CHILDREN Being a Collection of Autograph Sentiments Contributed by Famous Men and Women for this Volume. Done in Fac-Simile and Published for the Benefit of the Children's Home, of the World's Columbian Exposition.
Imprint : Chicago, (Hayes and Co.),
Date: 1893. Hayes Ed.2, published under direction of Mrs. Geo. L. Dunlap, Chairman of the Children's Building Committee, of the Board of Lady Managers, 4to, later green buckram gilt, Pts. I-II, 84; 101, illus., facsimiles of autographs & music, with ink inscriptions by Patty E. Pratt and her father, Harry E. Pratt, dated 1940, noting that they vote the best in this volume is the Eugene Field poem, "With Trumpet & Drum."
Description: Hayes Ed. 2, published under direction of Mrs. Geo. L. Dunlap, Chairman of the Children's Building Committee, of the Board of Lady Managers, 4to, later green buckram gilt, Pts. I-II, 84; 101, illus., facsimiles of autographs & music, with front endpaper inscriptions by Patty E. Pratt and her father, Harry E. Pratt, dated 1940, noting that they vote the best poem in this volume is Eugene Field's, "With Trumpet and Drum."
Reference: +Dybwad & Bliss 871, note. Harry Pratt was Illinois State History, a Lincoln scholar and author. Includes works by Pres. Harrison, U.S. Supreme Ct. Justices, Thos. Hardy, Henry James, Edw. E. Hale, Thos. B. Aldrich, O.W. Holmes, Julia W. Howe, David Swing, & a host of notables.
Price: $45.


Author: Cook County Land Company:
Title: CHARTER AND BY-LAWS.
Imprint : Chicago,
Date: 1872.
Description: Blue ptd. wrps. soiled, 21.3 cm., 1l. (title), (1)-3 (verso blank), Charter; (1)-4, By-Laws, light foxing, inscribed, "E. Anthony, Esq., Respects of C.A. Gregory."
Reference: +Not in NUC.
Price: $250.

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