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D E A R E S T D O R O T H Y , A R E W E T H E R E Y E T ? B o o k 1 .
Edition: Hardcover.
Carmel, NY: Guideposts, (2002.). Hardcover - "And now, welcome to Partonville, a circle-in-the-square town in the northern part of southern Illinois, where oldsters are young, trees have names and cars don't fly." 202 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards.
Book ID: 47061More details Price: $12.50 -
WABASH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fifth novel, set in 1932 in the town of Wabash on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River - a town dominated by the steel mill also called Wabash. INSCRIBED on the title page to the noted Oklahoma book collector Larry Owens and dated in 1994. 207 pp. Dust jacket illustration by Douglas Fraser. ISBN: 0-394-55597X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60589More details Price: $35.00 -
GALENA'S DESOTO HOUSE 1853.
Edition: 2nd edition.
Galena, IL: Pilot House Perspectives, (1990.). Brochure recounting the story of a historic hotel, called in its heyday, when the lead mines in Galena were bustling, 'the largest hotel in the Northwest.' Illustrated with vintage photographs. Notes, 40 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in stiff stapled wrappers.
Book ID: 39406More details Price: $12.00 -
BILLY MORROW JACKSON: INTERPRETATIONS OF TIME AND LIGHT
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful large format book containing almost 100 reproductions of paintings - most in full color - by Jackson, a contemporary American realist and one of the leading landscape artists of the Midwest. Included are'the Illinois prairie landscapes, as well as the cityscapes, townscapes, interior views, works with social and political themes, and murals done by Jackson over the past forty years, all of them reflecting his fascination with the subtle yet pervasive impact of time and light on art and on life.' Extensive text by Wooden, notes, listings of the figures and of Jackson's exhibitions, index. 147 pp., oblong format, printed on heavy glossy paper throughout. A volume in the series Visions of Illinois. ISBN: 0-252017358.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dust jacket (a new copy, but with some sunning to the spine of the dj.)
Book ID: 31960More details Price: $25.00 -
PIONEERS: Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning 1825 - 1865.
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. (Lakeside Press) 1972. Hardcover first edition - The 70th Lakeside Classic: the first publication of two manuscripts describing 19th century pioneer life in Illinois and the Midwest and in Texas. Includes historical introduction, illustrated with maps and drawings. Index. List of previous titles in series. 290 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt (a little mottling to the cloth, binding tight, contents fine.)
Book ID: 33396More details Price: $16.00 -
THE BROTHERS: A Novel of the Early Settlement of Southern Illinois.
Edition: First edition.
Clearwater, Florida: Eldnar Press, (1984) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Map frontispiece, small drawings at the tail of each chapter. SIGNED on the front endpaper and dated 11/16/'84 (in the year of publication) 306 pp. ISBN: 0-912726059.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 66309More details Price: $20.00 -
TALES OF AN ALL-NIGHT TOWN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83444More details Price: $45.00 -
PRISON LIFE AND REFLECTIONS or a Narrative of the Arrest, Trial, Conviction, Imprisonment, Treatment, Observations, Reflections, and Deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson Who Suffered an Unjust and Cruel Imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary: Three Parts in One Volume.
Edition: Second edition.
Condition: Very good overall in publisher's original blind stamped cloth with gilt lettering on the spine - significant sunning to the spine and some to the edges of the boards, foxing throughout mostly affecting the margins, previous owner's name dated 1848. A tight and straight copy, uncommon both in this 1848 edition (it was reprinted numerous times by Work in the 1850s) and in this condition.
Book ID: 84555More details Price: $150.00 -
BOOK OF THE WESTERN SUBURBS: Homes, Gardens, Landscapes, Highways and Byways, Past and Present.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Good overall in brown illustrated paper covered boards with a brown cloth spine, corners bumped, spine fraying on the side, gift inscription on front pastedown, but still a decent copy of a very hard to find first ediiton. .
Book ID: 71829More details Price: $200.00