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Boss
by Mike Royko
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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The Lost City
by Alan Ehrenhalt
Lost City is a 2004 novel by Clive Cussler. It tells of Kurt Austin's dealings with the Fauchard family, which has dominated the weapons industry for several thousand years, their secret past, the monsters they have created, and the plague they have unleashed on the worlds oceans, all in a quest for immortality.
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.
Illinois Books & Ephemera
Lost Chicago
by Lowe, David
Boson: Houghtom Mifflin Company. As New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1975. First Printing. Hard Cover. 0395207266 . First Edition, First Printing. Publisher's full brick cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, reproduction of drawing of early (1853) Chicago on endpapers. Profusely illustrated with 200 B&W drawings, prints, and photographs. Includes Sources and Notes on Illustrations, and detailed Index.. This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The...
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€37.78
An Element of Love: A History of the Children's Memorial Hospital of Chicago, Illinois
by McCausland, Clare
Chicago: Children's Memorial Hospital. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1981. 1st Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. 0960740007 . Publisher's illustrated card wraps. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square and clean. AS NEW.. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiii, 225 pp .
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€47.23
![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]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/609/610/1407610609.0.b.jpg)
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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€42.51
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume XLIII, Number 3, Autumn, 1950
by Dilliard, Irving; W.H.G. Armytage; Otto Eisenschimel
Springfield, IL. Strong binding. Lightly rubbed. The text is bright and unmarked. See photo for articles. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1950.
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€8.97
Asher & Adams' Illinois
by ASHER & ADAMS
New York: Asher & Adams, 1873. unbound. Map. Engraving with original hand coloring. Image measures 22 1/4" x 16"<br/> <br/> Classic double-page map of Illinois with special focus on the state's developing railroad system. Counties are hand-colored, and black lines depicting rail lines are labeled with the railroad name. Cities, towns, major routes, waterways, post offices, and other geographical features are noted. Parts of Missouri, Kentucky, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin...
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€89.74
Typed Letter Signed
by STEVESON, Adlai (1900-1975)
Chicago, 1953. First. unbound. very good(+). Outstanding T.L.S. 4to. 1 page, personal stationary, Chicago, August 31, 1953, to political adviser and Pulitzer Prize recipient Leland Stowe, in part: "...I am baffled by the sudden change of attitude about McCarthy by many people I have talked to, but perhaps "baffled" is not the word exactly. At any rate, there seems to be a feeling he is slipping fast since his attack on the clergy, and for me to proceed too aggressively would be to...
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€330.61
ADLAI E. STEVENSON OF ILLINOIS
by Noel F. Busch
NY: Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. Red cloth spine with black cloth boards, black lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD ; no edge wear, corners great, very clean covers. Binding tight, text clean with toning to top edge of text block and mild foxing to title pgs. Bio. Stax.
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€14.17
NORTH-WESTERN SUGAR GROWERS' CONVENTION--- THE NEW SUGAR CANE
by [North-Western Sugar Growers]
[Springfield, IL, 1858. Broadside, 10-1/2" x 13-1/2". Printed in four columns. Lightly foxed, old folds, Very Good. This evidently unrecorded broadside recounts the proceedings of a Convention. held at the State Capitol in Springfield, to determine the feasibility of a regional program to advance the cultivation of sorghum or Chinese sugar cane. Notice of the Convention was reported in the Sangamo Journal / Illinois State Journal for 30 December 1857: "It is confidently believed that the Chinese Sugar...
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€708.45
MY CHICAGO
by BYRNE, Jane
NY: W.W. Norton, 1992. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Byrne on the half-title page. Byrne not only writes about her tern as Chicago's mayor but also about 150 years in the history of Chicago. Tall 8vo., cloth & boards in dust jacket; 384 pages. Illustrated.. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight with small stain to top edge of about 30 pages); nice d/j.
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€33.06
Mrs. O'Leary's Comet: Cosmic Causes of the Great Chicago Fire
by Waskin, Mel
Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. A book that explores the idea that a comet colliding with the earth could have caused the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. This is the scarce hardcover version (there was a simultaneous issue in paperback). First edition (first hardcover printing). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.
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€85.01
Life in Prairie Land, 1855
by Farnham, Eliza W
Life in Prairie Land, by Eliza W Farnham. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855.Poignant description of the harsh life of women on the Illinois prairie written by an early woman activist.
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€135.79
STORY OF ST. PAUL'S PARISH Embodying Numerous Reminiscences of the Social and Political Life of the Town of Peoria Illinois from 1834 to 1882. Church Events--1882-1928. Briefly Sketched in Appendix
by Cowell, Benjamin
Morrison B. Bourland. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Six pages of "Reproductions": Facsimile of the first page of the parish record, plus the 1929 bulletin. Some discoloration to the covers. Owner's name on top of inside front cover, same last name as author. Front panel of DJ laid in. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages .
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€9.45
Perrin's History of Illinois
by Perrin, J. Nick
J. Nick Perrin. Mustard cloth with black lettering. Very lightly soiled. Strong copy with no markings. 231 pages including index. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1904.
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€22.62
Chicago: Heart and Soul of America
by Mark, Norman; Kerry Robertson
Memphis, TN: Towery Pub. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 188109653X . 4to 11" - 13" tall. 527, (1) pp .
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€28.34
Eagle Forgotten: The Life of John Peter Altgeld
by Barnard, Harry
Seacaucus, NJ: Lyle Stuart. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, black lettering on spine. John Peter Altgeld (1847 – 1902) was an American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democrat to govern that state since the 1850s. A leading figure of the Progressive movement, Altgeld signed workplace safety and child labor laws, pardoned three of the men...
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€18.89
Sidell to Olney by Rail
by Jackson, Roy C
Roy C. Jackson. Acetate covers with plastic spiral spine. 541 pages. Includes maps and photos. Scarce. . Very Good. Soft cover. 2004.
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€47.18
Lincoln
by David Herbert Donald
From back cover: "In his beautiful inimitable prose, Donald had composed a thoroughly new biography of Abraham Lincoln. He has reexplored the major manuscript sources as well as the older and newer published writings on Lincoln...The end result is a genuine masterpiece - easy to read and delightfully informative." - Wayne C. Temple, Chief Deputy Director, Illinois State Archives.NOTE: When I look up the ISBN from the back cover, it says it's a hardcover book - BUT THIS BOOK IS A SOFTCOVER BOOK.Book...
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COMPROMISE WITH THE SOUTH. DEDICATED TO THE CHICAGO CONVENTION
by Nast, Thomas
[New York?, 1864. Carte-de-visite print, oblong 4" x 2-3/8." Very Good. At a gravestone on which is printed, "In memory of the Union Heroes who died in a useless war," a wounded and utterly defeated Union soldier and a proud, energetic Confederate soldier shake hands. Flags of the United States and the Confederacy flank the scene. The United States flag, hanging upside down with several lines of text, reads in part : "Tenn.| Virginia| Murfreesboro| Morris Island| Emancipation of the Slaves| Fort...
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€708.45
Chicago History: The Magazine of the Chicago Historical Society (Spring 1994, Vol. XXIII, No. 1)
by The Chicago Historical Society
Chicago: Chicago Historical Society. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1994. 1st Edition. First Printing. Magazine. 0805095365 . Publisher's illustrated stiff card wraps. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Includes articles by Dennis E. Hoffman, Paul Eli Ivey, and Jerold J. Savory.. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW.. Number 1 Series. Photographs. 4to 11" - 13" tall. 72 pp .
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€14.17
CHICAGO HOUSES
by Bailey, Janet
1981. 1981 Bailey, Janet CHICAGO HOUSES NY: St Martin's Press, c1981 221pp, illus color photos Jonas Dovydenas Tall 4to Fine hardcover copy with price-clipped d/w.
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€28.34
Chicago: A Pictorial Souvenir
by Highsmith, Carol M.; Ted Landphair
New York: Crescent Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0517201445 . Publisher's glossy pictorial boards. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. . The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean. The unclipped dust jacket show mild shelf-wear including small closed tear on front panel. FINE/NEAR FINE . Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. 64 pp .
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€7.56
THE GREAT REVOLUTION. A History of the Rise and Progress of the People's Party In the City of Chicago and County of Cook. With Sketches of the Elect in Office.
by Ahern, M. L
Chicago: Lakeside Publishing and Printing Co., 1874. first edition. hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, dark green cloth covers with decorations in blind, and titles stamped in gilt. 265 pages. Former owner names on verso of fly-leaf. A bit of "bubbling" in the cloth on rear cover; 1/2" closed tear at foot of spine, still Very Good.
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€89.74
Chicago
by Irving, Gary; Stephen G. Parker
Toronto: Skyline Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. First Edition (?). 1. Hard Cover. 0195406095 . Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, price-clipped dust jacket, orange endpapers, fully illustrated with color photographs of various Chicago locations.. Slight shelf-wear to dust jacket, former owner's inscription on ffep, boards slightly warped, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Unpaginated pp .
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€15.11
A COLLECTION OF ELEVEN CHICAGO DAILY FINANCIAL SHEETS FROM BANKING HOUSES, 1868
by Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints
Chicago, 1868. Broadsides of various sizes, no printers listed. Some occasional minor wear, Very Good. The financial sheets quote daily prices for stocks and bonds in Chicago. They suggest Chicago's emergence as a center of trade and finance before the Great Fire. The sheets include Tyler, Ullman & Co., Daily Quotations; and Opening Quotations from the Banking House of Lunt, Preston & Kean. These banking firms were established during the early 1860's and quickly became an important financial force in...
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€708.45
Illinois Negro Historymakers
by Hodges, Carl G. and Helene H. Levene
Chicago: Illinois Emancipation Centennial Commission. Illustrated staple bound covers. Slight wear. No creasing. Previous owner's name on the back of the front cover. No other markings. 91 pages. Illustrated. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1964.
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€14.12
