Fine Books and Manuscripts

Includes: Quaife, Milo Milton, The Development of Chicago 1674-1914. By Milton Quaife. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1916. Tall 8vo, original vellum backed boards. One of 175 copies. Moderate darkening of spine; Masters, Edgar Lee, The Tale of Chicago. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1933. 8vo, original publisher's cloth binding with a leather spine label. First edition. Number 35 of 100 copies signed by the author. Minor soiling to hte boards; Krich, John, Chicago Is. Venice: Legatoria Piazzesi, 1976. Oblong 8vo, orivinal vellum backed boards. First edition, limited to 170 copies, of which this is marked "H.C." out of a reported 20 hors commerce copies. Contains a drypoint etching by Krich, and a foreword by Studs Terkel. Minor shelfwear.

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