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Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Binding is cloth boards.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. First. Hardcover . Used - near fine/Near fine. 8vo; 139pp. Signed by Williams (editor) and Gehl (Foreword). Faint foxing to Textblock edges, in unclipped dj with light rubbing to rear panel. Appears fresh and unread.

Chicago: Southern Illinois University Press / The Caxton Club. New in New dust jacket. 2002. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0809324830 . The personal - and often intimate - diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing writes of a city filled with new immigrants, ex-soldiers, and the thriving merchant class making its fortune from both before the great fire of 1871 left much of the city in ashes. These diaries were transcribed and edited by noted Chicago bibliophile and historian Robert Williams, and published in cooperation with the Caxton Club, with a foreword by Paul F. Gehl, and an essay by Richard A. Schwarzlose. This volume also details the early adventures of a rural Easterner who came to the "Metropolis of the West" in his early twenties and worked for some of the most influential journalists of his day. Wing shared cigars and… Read More

Chicago: The Caxton Club, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Publisher prospectus laid in. Illustrated with photogravure. Binding is cloth boards.

Hardback. New. The personal diaries of fledgling journalist and entrepreneur John Mansir Wing create a unique portrait of a rough-and-tumble Chicago in the first few years following the Civil War. Wing writes of a city filled with new immigrants, ex-soldiers and the thriving merchant class.

Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 2002. Hardcover. New. 140 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.