WILLIAM BROSS; CHARLES CLEAVER; JOSEPH JEFFERSON; MABEL MCILVAINE (INTRO)

Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties

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 .

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Keywords: Lakeside Classics; Rare Books; Chicago; Chicago History; Early Chicago History; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

MCILVAINE, MABEL (INTRO)

Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties

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.. Former owner's signature on ffep, otherwise unmarked. Tight, square, clean, and seemingly unread. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 11. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxxi, (ii), 140 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Keywords: Lakeside Classics; Rare Books; Chicago; Chicago History; Early Chicago History; Memoirs; History Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

PIKE, ZEBULON M.; MILO MILTON QUAIFE (ED)

The Southwestern Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1925. 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 engraved portrait frontispiece and fold-out map. Pike's narrative was originally published in Philadelphia in 1810 as "An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, Rivers; performed by Order of the Government of the United States during the Years 1805, 1806 and 1807, and a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain, when conducted through these Provences, by Order of the Captain-General, in the Year 1807." . Former owner's signature stamp on ffep, otherwise unmarked; gilt bright, corners sharp, boards clean, text block tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 23. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxii, 239 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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QUAIFE, MILO MILTON (ED); BLACK HAWK

Life of Black Hawk: Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1916. 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 portrait of Black Hawk from a portrait painted by Robert M. Sully at Fort Monroe in 1833.. Boards very lightly soiled, unmarked, tight, square and clean, seemingly unread. VERY GOOD. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 14. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xi, 196 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Keywords: Lakeside Classics; Rare Books; Chicago; Chicago History; Lakeside Classics; American Indians; Indian Chiefs; Autobiography; Native Americans; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

ROSS, ALEXANDER; MILO MILTON QUAIFE (ED)

Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted out by John Jacob Astor, to Establish the "Pacific Fur Company" with an Account of Some Indian Tribes on the Coast of the Pacific

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1923. 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 fold-out map frontispiece. Alexander Ross (1783-1856) was a fur trader and author. In 1811, while working for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, Ross took part in the founding of Fort Astoria, a fur-trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River. During the same year he led a detachment up the Columbia River and founded Fort Okanogan where during the winter he was the sole PFC employee at the trading post. During his solitary posting, Ross' hair greyed from the stress of being socially isolated among the welcoming Syilx people, "savages who had never seen a white man before." In 1818 Ross acted as scribe for a trading party from the North West Company who traveled within sight of the Teton Range in modern Wyoming. He and trapper Daniel Potts apparently viewed some of the thermal features of what is today Yellowstone National Park. Each of them produced an account of these features, with Ross reporting that "...boiling fountain having different degrees of temperature were very numerous; one or two were so very hot as to boil meat." Ross explored various territories of the Pacific Northwest. In 1824, while searching the mountain wilderness of what is present day Idaho, known to them as Columbia District, for beaver, Ross came up the Wood River and discovered Galena Summit on September 18. Leading a large brigade of Hudson's Bay Company trappers, he wondered if he could get through unknown mountains and rocky defiles that obstructed his passage back to his base of operations at present Challis. Unwilling to turn back he pressed on to explore Stanley Basin and the difficult canyon beyond. When he reached Challis on October 5, 1824, he had traveled the route now followed by Idaho State Highway 75 from Bellevue to Salmon through mostly unexplored land. Former owner's signature on ffep, otherwise unmarked. Gilt bright, boards clean, corners sharp, text block tight and square. VERY GOOD. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 21. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxvii, 388 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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TILLSON, CHRISTIANA HOLMES; MILO MILTON QUAIFE (ED.)

A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1919. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, embossed publisher's medallion on front cover in gilt, t.e.g. fore-edge and bottom edge deckle. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. Head and heel of spine are very, very slightly rubbed, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 17. Two Portraits. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxi, 169 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 15960

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Keywords: Americana; Illinois History; Lakeside Classics; Biography; Memoir; Frontier Illinois; Memoir; Humor; Biography & Memoir Women Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

WOLFE, THOMAS

Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. First Printing (Publisher's "A" on Copyright page). Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on green letterboxes on spine with gilt borders; gilt lettering on green labels on cover with gilt borders; fore-edge deckle. (xii), 912 pp. Former owner's printed bookplate on fep, with no other marks. The covers are mildly worn and the spine is mildly faded, else fine. NEAR FINE.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 5070

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