Author: KINSLEY, PHILIP
Title: The Chicago Tribune: Its First Hundred Years (Three Volumes, Complete)
Description: NY: Alfred A. Knopf; The Chicago Tribune, 1943. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spines, gilt medallion on covers, fore-edges deckle. Volume I: 1847-1865: The Rise of America's inland metropolis mirrored in the story of its oldest and most influential newspaper; NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943; xv, 381, vii, (1) pp. Volume II: 1865-1880: Chicago and its oldest and most influential newspaper meet and surmount difficult years following the Civil War; Chicago: The Chicago Tribune, 1946; xv, 349, viii pp. Volume III: 1880-1900: The dramatic record of twenty eventful years during which the United States became a world power and the Chicago Tribune grew from a small "quality" circulation newspaper into a mass-circulation "people's paper;" Chicago: The Chicago Tribune, 1946; xv, 359, xiv pp. All volumes illustrated with dozens of photographs and reproductions. All three volumes are unmarked, tight, square, and clean. All three dust jackets are now in Mylar, unclipped and unmarked. Quite scarce in this wonderful condition. FINE/NEAR FINE. Photographs and Reproductions. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

Keywords: History; Americana; Newspapers; Chicago Tribune; Newspaper History; History Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books


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