Author: WILLIAM BROSS; CHARLES CLEAVER; JOSEPH JEFFERSON; MABEL MCILVAINE (INTRO)
Title: Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties
Description: Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1913. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and publisher's medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece drawing of Chicago in 1853. Includes: Introduction; William Bross - extracted from "What I remember of early Chicago", a lecture delivered Jan. 23, 1876; Charles Cleaver - extracts from articles which appeared first in the Chicago tribune; Joseph Jefferson, Chicagoan - reprinted from "The autobiography of Joseph Jefferson"; and Chicago's first railroad systems - reprinted from Andraes's "History of Chicago." . Head and heel of spine show very slight shelf-wear, very modest fading to gilt on spine, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 11. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxxiii, 137 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Lakeside Classics; Rare Books; Chicago; Chicago History; Early Chicago History; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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Title: Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties
Description: Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1913. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and publisher's medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece drawing of Chicago in 1853. Includes: Introduction; William Bross - extracted from "What I remember of early Chicago", a lecture delivered Jan. 23, 1876; Charles Cleaver - extracts from articles which appeared first in the Chicago tribune; Joseph Jefferson, Chicagoan - reprinted from "The autobiography of Joseph Jefferson"; and Chicago's first railroad systems - reprinted from Andraes's "History of Chicago." . Head and heel of spine show very slight shelf-wear, very modest fading to gilt on spine, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 11. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxxiii, 137 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Lakeside Classics; Rare Books; Chicago; Chicago History; Early Chicago History; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 650.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 19987
- Book number: 19987
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