Chicago: The History of Its Reputation.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1929]. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with silver lettering. xii, 508pp. Very good. Binding lightly edgeworn, with spine faintly sunned, else tight and internally near fine. Item #45078

Early (not first) printing of this popular account, with Lewis providing Part I and Smith the intro and Part II. Lewis signs the half-title page large and bold in black ink. Lewis (1891-1949) was a popular "Chicago Daily News" editor, journalist and columnist -- and passionate Lincoln and Civil War scholar who penned books about Sherman and Grant.

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