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Lincoln
by Richard Carwardine
An original and deeply insightful biography of Abraham Lincoln, already awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize.As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves, Abraham Lincoln lays ample claim to being the greatest of our presidents. But the story of his rise to greatness is as complex as it is compelling. In this superb biography, the highly regarded Oxford University historian Richard Carwardine examines Lincoln both in his dramatic political journey and in his...
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Eagle Forgotten
by Harry Barnard
The biography of John Peter Altgeld whose courage makes him an inspiration to those who still believe in the American dream.
Sin In the Second City
by Karen Abbott
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history--and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago's notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club's proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh, welcomed moguls and actors, senators and athletes, foreign dignitaries and literary icons, into their stately double mansion, where thirty stunning Everleigh "butterflies" awaited their...
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Illinois Books & Ephemera
Boss
by Royko, Mike
This is the story of the late Richard J. Daley, politician and self-promoter extraordinaire, from his inauspicious youth on Chicago’s South Side through his rapid climb to the seat of power as mayor and boss of the Democratic Party machine. A bare-all account of Daley’s cardinal sins as well as his milestone achievements, this scathing work by Chicago journalist Mike Royko brings to life the most powerful political figure of his time: his laissez-faire policy toward corruption, his unique...
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Sin in the Second City madams, ministers, playboys, and the battle for America's soul
by Karen Abbott
Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 356 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Signed by previous owner.
Signed by previous owner.
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NZ$8.57
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
by Royko, Mike
Dutton Books, 1971. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$12.81
The Seven Stairs
by Brent, Stuart
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989. Later printing of eccentric & beloved Chicago bookseller's memoirs, apparently SIGNED by him in a very shaky hand. Paperback. General wear, light creasing. Text clean; xi, [5], 231 pages; b/w photos, list of 100 recommended books.. Signed by Author. Later Printing. Paperback. Good. 5½" by 8½".
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NZ$25.72
Biographical Sketch of Hon. Joseph Duncan, Fifth Governor of Illinois
by Blatchford, Eliphalet Wickes
Chicago Historical Society. Original booklet stapled at the spine into heavy card stock with cloth spine and paper label. Author's business card and invitation to event included. . Good. Soft cover. 1905.
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NZ$20.58
[Racist Caricatures] I'm Granpa at Last, eh? [Set of five illustrated cabinet cards]
by [John McGreer]
[Chicago: John McGreer, Copyright 1882.] Five mounted albumen photographs, numbered 1-5 within image. Oblong; mounts 4¼ x 6½ inches; images 4 x 5¼ inches. Light soiling in margins; first mount and photo toned; very good. Complete set of five photographic reproductions from the Cartoon Printing Co. published by Chicago cartoonist John McGreer, based on Solomon Eytinge's racist African American caricatures from his "Blackville" series published by Harper's Weekly. The images show a stereotypical...
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NZ$428.65
The Water Tower
by SWANN, James
Chicago, 1956. unbound. very good. View. Uncolored etching. Signed. From edition of 100. Image measures 9" x 6.25".<br/> <br/> Rainy night city scene in Chicago. James Swann (1905-1985) was born in Texas. He moved to Chicago in 1933 where he became a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$1,971.79
Ravinia The Festival at Its Half Century
by Fannia Weingartner
Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 10.80 X 9.40 X 0.90 inches.160 p.
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NZ$42.86
Through These Doors: The Story of New England Congregational Church, Aurora, Illinois
by Gary L. McCann
Aurora, IL: Kelmscott Press, 2007. Very Good/Very Good. [Aurora, IL: Kelmscott Press, 2007.] First Edition. Square quarto (26cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xiii,[1],189pp.; color photographs throughout. Jacket lightly edgeworn and nudged at spine ends, with a spiral indentation running vertically along fore-edge at back. Small puncture to front of jacket with tiny corresponding dent to front board and first few pages. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
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NZ$42.86
Philosophian Fraternity, Dedicated to the Friends and Former Members of the Philosophian Society, By the Class of 1850
by [Leo P. Hamline et al., Publishing Committee]
St. Louis: Printed at the Republican Office, 1850. 16pp. Pamphlet. Sm. 8vo. Removed; without wrappers. Scattered stains and scattered foxing; Very Good. Membership directory of an undergraduate literary society at McKendree College, the oldest college, now university, in Illinois. Affiliated with the Methodist church, the school is located in Lebanon, Illinois, 20 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri where this pamphlet was printed. In addition to listing the members (by year of initiation, beginning in...
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NZ$128.60
Psycho-Analysis. A Course of Lectures in Theory and Application. [First to Seventh Units]
by [Edward N. Schoolman and Daniel H. Bonus]
Chicago: American Institute of Psycho-Analysis,1921. Seven quarto titles in wrappers, continuously paginated, viz., pages 1-244 pages. All titles with lower right hand bumped corners to covers and text within. Overall, bright and clean and Very Good. The first seven units (244 pages) of apparently 13 total units (459 pages) published by this Chicago-based entity seeking to train and any all who wanted to become psychoanalysts. Edward N. Schoolman, M.D. and Daniel H. Bonus, General Director, were the...
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NZ$385.78
Lincoln
by David Herbert Donald
Fine in Fine dust jacket. An exceptionally clean and unread copy.
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NZ$22.29
Tomb of Abraham Lincoln, at Springfield, Ill. Guarded by Vet. Res. Corps 1865. [caption title]
by [Abraham Lincoln]
[Springfield, Illinois, 1865]. Photographic image: 7½ x 9 inches, on mount with handwritten caption. Period deep-set walnut and gilt frame, glazed, 9¾ x 11¼ inches, overall. Evenly-lightened with the image likely taken on a bright, sunlit day. Unpublished and previously unknown. A rare photographic print created from a large format albumen photograph taken in 1865. The image captures Lincoln's tomb being guarded by the Veteran Reserve Corps. The Reserve Corps were active from May to November, 1865...
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NZ$2,571.90
[Chicago:] Official Program, 21st Annual National Convention, The American Legion, Chicago, September 25-28, 1939 [cover title]
by [The American Legion]
[Chicago]: Pontiac Press, [1939]. 64pp. Pamphlet. Approx. 8¾ x 5¾ inches. Vibrant color-lithographed pictorial wraps; stapled. Numerous half tone portraits and illustrations; maps. Ephemera laid in include a printed circular letter and two 4-page convention brochures. Near fine. Official illustrated program of the 1939 annual convention of the patriotic military veterans' organization, The American Legion. Held in Chicago, the convention brochure by artist Joe E. Sewell depicts the iconic Chicago...
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NZ$257.19
Chicago 1893. World's Columbian Exposition Souvenir Compliments of Julius C. Walk, Jeweler, Successor to Bingham & Walk, Indianapolis, Ind. [cover title]
by [Julius C. Walk, Jeweler]
Chicago, Illinois. 1893. [22]pp. Oblong, 6 x 10 inches. Textured paper wrappers; cord-tied. Ten, full-page half tone captioned illustrations with tissue guards. Title page title: Illustrated Souvenir of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. Booklet curled at spine and fore-edge; near fine. Rare souvenir advertising booklet for jeweler Julius C. Walk associating his business with Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Illustrated with ten full-page, half tone illustrations of the...
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NZ$145.74
Inaugural Address of President Wentworth, Delivered Before the Trustees and Visitors, Faculty and Students of M'Kendree College, Lebanon, St. Clair County, Illinois, at the Annual Commencement, on Wednesday, July 21, 1847 [presentation copy]
by [Erastus Wentworth (1813-1886]; [McKendree College]
St. Louis, Mo.: Printed by Chambers & Knapp, 1847. 19, [1 (blank)]pp. Pamphlet. 8½ x 5½ inches. Removed; without wrappers. Presentation inscription on title page: "U. P.[?] Library from the Author 1850". Trimmed at top and bottom edges, just touching inscription; Very Good. Address delivered by Rev. Erastus Wentworth (1813-1886), president of McKendree College, the oldest college in Illinois and the oldest Methodist-affiliated college in the United States. The college was founded in 1828 as Lebanon...
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NZ$77.16
On the Illinois Frontier: Dr. Hiram Rutherford, 1840-1848
by Hendrick, Willene; Hendrick, George
Southern Illinois University Press. Nice bright and crisp copy with no markings. . VG+. Soft cover. 1981.
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NZ$17.15
Hobohemia
by Frank O. Beck
Rindge, NH: Richard R. Smith Publisher, Inc, 1956. Very Good +/Very Good -. Rindge, NH: Richard R. Smith Publisher, Inc., 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 95 pp. Printed dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Red boards stamped in white. Dust jacket with some chipping at spine ends and along top edge of rear panel. Heavy fading, especially along spine, and some general rubbing. Boards lightly worn along edges with a touch of spotting. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A minister's stories of his...
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NZ$154.31
The Welcome Guest [1903 Chicago Patent Medicine]
by [F.J. Smith Co., Inc.]
Portland, Me.: Published by F.J. Smith Co., Inc., 1903. Vol. XIV, No. 11 (November). 16pp. Periodical. 16½ x 11 inches. Illustrations; advertisements. Horizontal fold; tears at fold and some losses there and in fore-edge margins; Good only. Unrecorded Portland, Maine pulp magazine, perhaps a one-off, i.e., essentially a vehicle for advertising novelties, cheap household goods, and patent medicines-many of the latter from Chicago. The original content of the Welcome Guest are four dime novel-like...
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NZ$145.74
First Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Georgetown Seminary. Georgetown, Illinois, For the Year ending March 5, 1850
by [Georgetown Seminary]
Danville: J. Hollingsworth - Citizens office. 1850. [1-3], 12pp. Pamphlet; removed; without wrappers; soft vertical crease; light foxing. Very Good. Rare first catalog for the Georgetown Seminary located in Georgetown Township, Vermilion County. We find no material specific to this institution on OCLC. Byrd 1576 notes one copy at Harvard and states: "This coeducational school was founded in 1845 under the offices of the Methodist Conference. It flourished until the 1860s when the building was rented...
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NZ$214.32
Minutes of the Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church held at Belleville, September 13, 1848
by [Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church]; [Erastus Wentworth (1813-1886)]
Saint Louis: Charles & Hammond, Book and Job Printers, 1848. 23, [1 (blank)]pp.7½ x 4¼ inches. Removed; without wrappers. Presentation inscription on title page: "U. P.[?] Library from E. Wentworth 1850". Soft horizontal crease; trimmed at top edge, just touching inscription; scattered foxing; Good. Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Illinois Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The conference was held at Belleville, Illinois, close to St. Louis, Missouri where the pamphlet was printed....
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NZ$85.73
Chicago River
by LUBBERS, Adriaan
1944. unbound. very good. View. Uncolored lithograph. Signed and dated; 5/50. Image measures 12.5" x 11.5".<br/> <br/> Dark and richly printed view of a bridge across the Chicago River. Some staining along left edge. Adriaan Lubbers (1892-1954) was a Dutch born artist, who lived and worked in New York City.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$2,571.90
My Chicago
by Byrne, Jane
W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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NZ$11.62
Rainy Night
by SWANN, James
Chicago, 1955. unbound. very good. View. Uncolored etching. Signed. From edition of 100. Image measures 7.25" x 10.75".<br/> <br/> Beautiful night city scene in Chicago. James Swann (1905-1985) was born in Texas. He moved to Chicago in 1933 where he became a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers.<br/> <br/>
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NZ$1,886.06
New and Startling Facts for Those Afflicted With Nervous Diseases [cover title] [with laid in ephemera]
by Dr. Miles Medical Co
Elkhart, Indiana: Dr. Miles Medical Co. (1893). [1-4], 5-35, [36]pp. 9½ x 6¼ inches. Illustrated, self-wrappers. Brief staining; loss at lower right margin, not affecting text; fair. What didn't the Dr. Miles Company cure? Illustrated patent medicine trade catalog from the Dr. Miles Medical Co. of Elkhart Indiana with the additional inclusion of the advertising blow-ins still present. The text promotes Dr. Miles' full line of "Restorative Medicines" with particular emphasis on his patent medicine...
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NZ$128.60