Garden City: Garden City Publishing Co., [1941]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial corner-clipped dust jacket. 190pp, vi, 289pp, (5pp), 215pp, (5pp), 273pp. Near fine/very good. Endpapers a bit age toned per usual; jacket mildly edgeworn at head of spine only. Exceptionally bright, tight and lovely reprint... More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1953]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering. 384pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine. A tight and lovely first edition (sans jacket) of this biography of the last Republican mayor of Chicago, the colorful 3-term William Hale Thompson (1869-1944) -- and boldly signed by these two Chicago... More

Chicago: Breeder's Gazette Print, 1915. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Three-quarter calf with gilt spine lettering and dark green cloth. 322pp. Color frontispiece, numerous full-page plates, all pages ruled in red. Very good. Faint edgewear, but overall tight, bright, lovely. A handsome first edition of this rather scarce far-ranging account of the... More

Iowa City: State University of Iowa Library, 1956. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. 114pp. Very good. Outer wrappers (only) lightly age toned. Tight, nice sole printing of this scholarly exhibition catalogue, a chronological survey of this famed collection from pre-colonial up through mid-20th century documents. More

Chicago: Foster & McDonnell, 1924. Hardcover. 8vo. Bright blue cloth with gilt title and rules and white accent. 224pp. Top edge gilt. Illustrations, blue marbled endpapers. Very good. Faint edgewear, though internally fine and bright. Tight and handsome first edition, with gilt a-gleaming, of this history of a Chicago neighborhood... More

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873. Hardcover. Edited by Olive Risley Seward. Small 4to. Purple pebble-grain blind-ruled cloth over bevelled boards with ornate gilt lettering and decorative giltstamping. xii, 788pp, (8pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous illustrations, small foldout map. Very good. Faint edgewear (mainly at spine head and tail)... More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1929]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Manning DeV. Lee and Lyle Justis. Small 4to. Green cloth with blue lettering and blue and white pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 329pp. Color frontispiece, 3 full-page color plates, full-page line drawings. Very good/very good. Faintest of binding edgewear, with endpapers... More

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, [1915]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Charles Paxson Gray. 12mo. Mustard cloth with red and black lettering and red, black and brown pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 265pp. Frontispiece, 3 full-page plates. Near fine/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn, with single chip at upper right of spine... More

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, [1913]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Light blue cloth with dark blue lettering and dark blue and orange pictorial stamping, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 204pp, (8pp ads). Frontispiece. Near fine/very good. Jacket a tad edgeworn, with small corner chips and several at head of spine, else... More

American regional artist famed for his murals; great nephew of the Missouri statesman. Large, bold "Thanks / Thomas H. Benton" in blue ink on a 5½" X 2¼" slip, n.p., n.y. Very good. Though undated, likely of 1950s vintage. An attractive example. More

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, [1938]. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering and pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. 208pp. Frontispiece, decorative endpapers. Near fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear (mainly at spine head and tail) and touch of rubbing; printed "This is my Book" element on front... More

Fascinating collection of approximately 94-plus Autograph Letters Signed (all with original envelopes) from a Republic of Vietnam Air Force officer named Lai Van Tho and several others. Varying sizes (most ca. 8" X 10," small smaller), varying lengths (most 2-3 pages, some more), most near fine and some very good... More

New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher, 1902. Paperback. October 8, 1902 edition (No. 227) of "Pluck and Luck: Complete Stories of Adventure." 4to. Pictorial color wrappers. 32pp. Good plus. Outer wrappers mildly edgeworn and chipped at both outer corners; inner text pages moderately age toned and delicate as usual. Attractive issue... More