The Great Chicago Fire: Described in Seven Letters by Men and Women Who Experienced Its Horrors, and Now Published in Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Catastrophe.
Chicago: The Chicago Historical Society, 1946. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with black and red lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 83pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed, with spine rather sunned. Item #47549
Tight, clean, attractive first edition of this well-illustrated standard account, being contemporary accounts of the fire written by Jonas Hutchinson, Mary Fales, George Howland, Aurelia R. King, Anna E. Higginson, Adeline Rossiter Judd and Samuel Stone. Personal copy of Governor Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), twice Democratic presidential candidate, with his boldly pencilled notation on front flyleaf: "Gift from Hermion S. Smith / October 1946."
Price: $95.00