Mr. Dooley's Chicago.
Garden City: Anchor Press / Doubleday, [1977]. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and black paper over boards. 399pp. Illustrations. Very good. Faintest of binding edgewear; lacks dust jacket. Item #47569
ISBN: 0385020236
A tight, attractive first edition of this examination of The Windy City, its people and places, as seen through the eyes of this popular late 19th/early 20th century fictional Irish immigrant bartender with thick accent who appeared in Dunne's syndicated column and was later collected into several books. Finley Peter Dunne was a noted Chicago journalist and humorist (1867-1936). From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois, with front flyleaf bearing a handsome author presentation inscription in black fineline: "To Adlai E. Stevenson III, / May the wind be always at your back, / May the road rise up to meet you / (but not because you've run / afoul of the Dept. of Streets / & Sanitation). / Barbara C. Schaaf." Senator Stevenson's great-grandfather, Grover Cleveland's vice president Adlai E. Stevenson I -- who appears in Dooley's well-known essay "The Vice-President" -- appears briefly in these pages. Great association copy!
Price: $75.00