Author: SMITH, George D.
Title: History of Illinois and Her People
Description: Chicago, The American Historical Association, 1927. Hardcover. Complete 6-volume set. Full blind-embossed leatherette. lxii, 452pp; 496pp, 444pp, 432pp, 432pp, 432pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispieces (Volume I-III), illustrations, maps, tan marbled endpapers. Very good. Faint edgewear only, mainly at heads and tails of spines. A superb and tight first edition of this massive state history. The final three volumes are an exhaustive biographical dictionary of notable Illinoisans past and present. Not the more common clothbound edition, but the deluxe leatherette set. .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest


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