Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts

Historic Galena, Yesterday and Today.

BALE, Florence Gratiot (compiler).

[Galena]: [Galena Advertiser], [1945]. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. Front wrapper (only) sunned. Item #33256

Later printing of this 1939 text, a nice little primer on this important lead mining town in northwest Illinois, adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. Image of General U.S. Grant on the front wrapper -- published out of the very same building where Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts operated from 1994 to 2014.

Price: $15.00