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367 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD Photograph in black and white, signed by Howard Hughes and members of his Around-the-World Flight crew, including Thommy Thurlow, Edward Lund, Al Lodwick, Harry Connor, and Dick Stoddard. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $1,500-2,500

368 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD A photo album of Howard Hughes’ Around-theWorld flight, comprising 103 black and white photographs pasted to thick paper, some starting to detach or detached, pages bound in a plain board album. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $600-800 369 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD A collection of 72 photographs from Hughes’ Around-the-World flight, pasted to think sheets of album paper, some starting to detach. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $400-600

370 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD A collection of 68 photographs from Hughes’ Around-the-World flight, pasted to think sheets of album paper, some starting to detach. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $400-600 371 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD A collection of photographs from Hughes’ receptions upon his return from his Around-the-World flight, including 28 8x10 photographs, 3 10x12 photographs, and 48 5x7 or smaller photographs. Also included are 21 sheets of photographs, many duplicates, showing Lodwick’s reproductions for press purposes. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $400-600

372 372 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD A collection of important documents to be carried by Howard Hughes on his Around-the-World flight. A small typed note accompanies the documents, which are housed in a file-o-fax, stating “These papers must be carried by Mr. Hughes at all times.”

Comprising (1) US Department of Commerce Authorization for Foreign Flight (New York, Canada, Newfoundland, Irish Free State, England and Northern Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and the USSR) with aircraft specifications, 3pp. (2) Permit and Oath of Departure to fly to Minneapolis, issued in Fairbanks, Alaska (3) Questions in English and Russian carried by Hughes to be used in case of forced landing (4) Letter of Authority from Irish Free State granting Hughes permission to fly over or land; together with a license to carry pistols, a rifle, shot gun and ammunition on the flight (5) Letters from Hughes’ insurance company certifying that Hughes’ plane was insured for flight in Germany in accordance with local laws (6) Department of Commerce Customs Clearance for flight from New York to Paris, France. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $1,000-2,000

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373 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD Two typed letters signed (“Howard Hughes”), also signed by other officials, in Russian, 2 pages, from AMTORG Trading Corp. (Official branch of the Russian Government), each being letters of credit, with postmarked envelopes to AIRDROME in Yakutsk and Novo Sibirsk. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $800-1,200

374 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD Hughes’ “Little Black Book,” a term coined in an article by National Aeronautics, August, 1938, which called it a “bible of factual data for Hughes and the crew” of his Around-the-World flight.

The small binder, compiled for Hughes’ personal use, includes everything one might need on an Around-the-World flight: a series of questions and statements in English and Russian, should the plane be forced to land, including “Please give us food,” “Where can we find an air pump,” or “I am Howard Hughes, an American, and these are members of my crew”; numerous facts about the American aviation industry and the technology behind Hughes’ Lockheed, to impress his colleagues abroad; detailed facts about France, Germany, Poland, USSR and the other countries they would be visiting or flying over; preparations made for landing in Paris, Winnepeg, Edmonton and Fairbanks; numerous pages of airplane radio communication instructions; and prepared welcome speeches for each of his stops. In keeping with the marketing purpose of the expedition, each speech included an invitation on behalf of Grover A. Whalen, to the upcoming New York World’s Fair of 1939. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $3,000-5,000

375 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD A group of four airmail envelopes from the Around-the-World flight signed by Howard Hughes, including one signed by all members of the flight crew. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $1,000-2,000

376 (AVIATION) HUGHES, HOWARD A group of six stamped airmail envelopes, one signed by Harry Connor, and 31 flages (24 US and 7 New York World’s Fair) carried on the Around-the-World flight. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $400-600

377 (AVIATION. HUGHES, HOWARD) LODWICK, AL A sparkplug from Hughes’ Around-the-World flight presented to Albert Lodwick “for his help in making the flight successful.” Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $800-1,200

378 (AVIATION. HUGHES, HOWARD) LODWICK, AL Archive belonging to flight manager, Al Lodwick. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $200-400

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379 379 (AVIATION) LEMON, FRANK Flights: Unforgettable Exploits of the Air. New York: Currier Press for the Wright Aeronautical Corporation, (1928).

Portfolio, plain blue wraps with pastedown label (in pieces). With six (of seven) plates illustrating the achievements of early twentieth-century aviators, with a number of them signed by the aviator featured. Signatures include: Louis Bleriot, two copies (first to fly the English Channel); Albert C. Read (first nonstop crossing the Atlantic in a flying boat); Charles Lindbergh (first nonstop crossing the Atlantic without a flying boat); Richard Byrd (first to fly over both poles); and Charles Kingsford-Smith (first to fly between Australia and New Zealand). Blue wraps stained and in pieces; prints in good condition. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $400-600

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380 (AVIATION) EARHART, AMELIA 20 hrs. 40 mins. Our Flight in the Friendship. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons; London: Knickerbocker Press, 1923.

8vo, publisher’s gilt-lettered cloth, photographic frontispiece. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Earhart on the f.f.e.p. Wear to boards, spine faded; ends bumped and frayed; backstrip beginning to detach from spine; ex-library copy with bookplate tipped to front pastedown and stamps to endpapers and title page; half-title detached but present; hinges tender. $300-500

381* (AVIATION) LINDBERGH, ANNE MORROW Listen! The Wind. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1938).

8vo, publisher’s red cloth stamped in gilt, dust jacket. First edition, inscribed by Anne Morrow and Charles Lindbergh on the half-title son and daughter in-law. Ends lightly sunned and bumped; very light chipping to edges of jacket with 1/2-inch of loss to upper rear cover; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Jon M. Lindbergh, Olympia, Washington $1,000-2,000 382* (AVIATION) LINDBERGH, CHARLES Of Flight and Life. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth. Inscribed by Charles Lindbergh on the half-title. First edition. Lacking dust jacket; light soiling to boards; ends bumped. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $500-700

383 (AVIATION) THE LINDBERGHS A collection of eight black and white photographs of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, including seven 8 x 10 and one large 11 x 14 portrait of Charles Lindbergh. Provenance: Purchased from the Estate of Al Lodwick $200-400

384 BARNUM, P. T. Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself. Buffalo: Courier, 1886.

8vo, publisher’s cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed and dated “July 29th, 1887” by Barnum on the f.f.e.p. Soiling and wear to boards; ends frayed; ex-libris stamp to endpapers; intermittent foxing. [Together with:] The Humbugs of the World. London: John Camden Hotten, 1866. 8vo, publisher’s blindstamped orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Wear to boards; ends bumped; hinges starting; scattered brownspotting. $100-200

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385* (BRIDGE) GOREN, CHARLES The Sports Illustrated Book of Bridge. New York: Time Incorporated, 1961.

Folio, bound in full red calf presented to Helen and William Benton, with names in gilt to upper cover, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase, decorative endpapers, t.e.g., rest uncut. Inscribed by the author, who was the recipients’ bridge partner at an early age. Rubbing to boards; light wear to slipcase. Accompanied by two Goren deck of bridge cards. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $200-400

386 COLT, MIRIAM DAVIS Went to Kansas; Being A Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to that Fairy Land and Its Sad Results. Watertown: L. Ingalls, 1862.

8vo, rebound in quarter blue morocco over cloth, title in gilt to spine. First edition. Rubbing to boards; foxing throughout. $300-500 387 DISNEY, WALT, attributed to Autographed letter signed as Mickey Mouse, to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Hall, Chicago, Illinois, pen and watercolor, framed by original illustrations of Mickey Mouse and Pluto.

Gilbert P. Hall was employed at the firm of Holabird and Roche. While no record exists of the incident, the letter suggests Disney stayed with Gilbert Hall and his wife at their home in Chicago. He writes: “Walt has asked (crossed out, and written “told”) me to write and thank you for the nice way you treated him while he was visiting in Chicago. He left me at home to do the work while he galavanted[sic] around and took my bows - now he makes me write his ‘thank you’ letters - P.S. whata[sic] boss - thank you, for him - Sincerely, Mickey Mouse.” $2,000-4,000

388* DUYCKINCK, EVERT A. National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans. New York: Johnson, Fry, 1862.

2 vols. 4to, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, giltlettered spine. Complete with 118 steel engravings. Wear to boards; heavy foxing to pages; light dampstain to first few pages both vols.; lacking most tissue guards. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $100-200 389 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.

Large 8vo, publisher’s buckram, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, map endpapers. Photographic plates. Limited edition, number 1,119 of 1,426 copies signed by Eisenhower on facsimile letter. Glassine chipped with 2-inches of loss at top and toned; bookplate of H.C. Olmstead tipped to front blank; small mark to facsimile letter; otherwise very good. Property from a Private Collection $2,000-4,000

390* EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Crusade in Europe. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1948.

Large 8vo, publisher’s buckram, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, map endpapers. Photographic plates. Limited edition, number 1,335 of 1,426 copies signed by Eisenhower on facsimile letter. Glassine chipped with 2-inches of loss at top; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $2,000-4,000

391 (FILLMORE, MILLARD) WEBSTER, DANIEL The Works. Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1851.

6 vols. 4to, publisher’s brown blind-stamped cloth. Subscriber’s copy, signed by Webster on the halftitle. Additionally inscribed by Webster to Mrs. Fillmore, dated June 1852 (during Presidency). Rubbing to boards with some chipping to spine ends. [Together with:] The Life, Eulogy, and Orations of Daniel Webster. By Louis Clark and Wilbur Hayward. Rochester: Wilber M. Hayward; Boston, France, New York: Dewitt & Davenport; Philadelphia: J.W. Moore; Chicago: Mellon, 1854. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind with central vignette “I Still Live Webster” to upper board. Inscribed to Hon. Millard Fillmore by the publisher, Wilber M. Hayward. Spine ends and corners worn. $400-600

389 392 (FILLMORE, MILLARD) A collection of 19 volumes from the library of Millard Fillmore, including 13 with his manuscript ex-libris.

The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1830. 10 vols. only. 12mo, full calf. Each with Millard Fillmore’s pencilled manuscript ex-libris to front pastedown. [Together with:] 7 vols. from the Classical Family Library. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1836-1837. 12mo, publisher’s printed cloth. One with Fillmore’s pencilled signature, the other’s supplied by a different hand, likely Clayton Fillmore. With two others (19 total) $800-1,200

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401 393 (FILLMORE, MILLARD) A collection of 27 volumes from the library of Millard Fillmore bearing his manuscript ex-libris.

The Works of John Adams. Second President of the United States: with A Life of the Author. By Charles Francis Adams. Boston: Little, Brown, 1856. 10 vols. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth. Manuscript ex-libris “Millard Fillmore” with various dates to the front pastedown of each vol. [Together with:] History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent. By George Bancroft. Boston: Little, Brown, 1853. 7 vols. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth. Manuscript ex-libris “Millard Fillmore” various dates, and ex-libris Cyrus Fillmore, to front pastedown of each volume. And 10 others with Fillmore’s manuscript ex-libris. (27 total) $1,500-2,500

394 (FILLMORE, MILLARD) A group of three volumes from the library of Millard Fillmore presented to him, one with his manuscript exlibris

An Inquiry into the Views, Principles, Services, and Influences of the Leading Men in the Origination of the American Union. By Thaddeus Allen. Boston: George W. Briggs, 1849. Vol. 1 (of 3) only. Presentation inscription from the author’s son. With Fillmore’s manuscript exlibris to title page. The Evil Tendencies of Corporeal Punishment. By Lyman Cobb. New York: Mark H. Newman, 1847. Presentation inscription from the author. Discourses on the Rectitude of Human Nature. By George W. Burnap. Boston: Wm. Crospy and H.P. Nichols, 1850. Presentation inscription from the author. $200-400

395 GILPIN, WILLIAM The Central Gold Region. The Grain, Pastoral, and Gold Regions of North America. Philadelphia: Sower, Barnes, 1860.

8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, title in gilt to spine. First edition. With six fold-out maps, four hand-colored. Wear to boards; ends chipped; scattered brownspotting; light offsetting from maps; otherwise good. $400-600

396 GOODMAN, BENNY Signature (“Benny Goodman”), on a card, with quotation “I’ll be seeing you.” 2 1/4 x 4 inches. $80-120

397 HEPBURN, KATHARINE A group of ten letters and notes in the hand of Katharine Hepburn, including three signed “Kate,” the others unsigned. $100-200

398 HEPBURN, KATHARINE Autographed letter signed (“K”), 1 page, undated, to Barbara Bush.

Hepburn writes, in a shaky hand: “Dear Mrs. Bush. Just a word to you to the President to thank you both for being so enthusiastic and so generous on Sunday. You made it all such fun and so exciting - we were all thrilled. It was a lesson to all of us - Especially to me - thank you very very much.” On yellow paper; wrinkled all over; some very small tears. $100-200

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399* JOHNSON, LADY BIRD A group of three signed works, comprising The White House, The White House Library, and A White House Diary (signed by both Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson). Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $200-400

400* KENNEDY, JOHN F. Strategy of Peace. New York: Harper & Brothers, (1960).

8vo, publisher’s black cloth, dust jacket. With signed Senate card laid in. First edition. Chipping to edges of jacket; light soiling to endpapers. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $800-1,200

401* KENNEDY, ROBERT F. To Seek a Newer World. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth. Inscribed by Kennedy to f.f.e.p. First edition. Jacket worn; ends bumped; interior clean. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $700-900 402 (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) An Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg (November 19, 1863), at the Consecration of the Cemetery Prepared for the Interment of the Remains of Those Who Fell in the Battles of July 1st, 2d, and 3d, 1863. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1863.

48 pp. 8vo, rebound in full brown crushed morocco by Stikeman, custom cloth felt-lined clamshell case by Scott Keller, with gilt-lettered pastedown label to spine, silk endpapers, morocco doublures gilt-ruled. The first appearance in book form of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, preceded only by the exceedingly scarce “Gettysburg Solemnities,” of which only a handful of copies are known. A fine copy. Literature: PMM 351 Howes E233 Sabin 23263 $6,000-8,000

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403 (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) GARDENER, ALEXANDER Shoulder-length portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the original negative taken in Alexander Gardener’s studio on November 8, 1863 by Moses Rice. Print on Japanese rice paper. Tipped to board. Torn at lower corners and small chip along upper edge; wear to board; otherwise sound. 12 1/2 x 10 inches. $200-400

404* (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) SANDBURG, CARL Abraham Lincoln: The War Years and The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1926, 1939.

6 vols. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, titles in gilt to spines. First edition. Inscribed by Sandburg on the f.f.e.p. of vol. 1, both sets. Light wear and fading to boards; some toning to endpapers; lacking dust jackets; otherwise good. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $300-500 405* (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) SANDBURG, CARL The Lincoln Collector. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949.

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, leather spine labels lettered in gilt, slipcase, uncut. First edition, numbers 287 and 228 of 2,425 copies signed by Sandburg. Light foxing to endpapers; chipping to edges of slipcases; otherwise fine. [Together with:] Lincoln for the Ages. By Ralph Newman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960. 8vo, blue leatherette. Limited to 525 copies signed by the author and editor to Senator William Benton. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $150-250

406 (LINCOLN, ABRAHAM) SANDBURG, CARL Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1926).

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 morocco over silk, spines gilt, t.e.g. First edition. Inscribed and dated by Sandburg on the f.f.e.p. and signed on the half-title, vol. 1. Light wear to boards; hinges starting; otherwise fine. $100-200

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407* (NATIVE AMERICAN) COUES, ELLIOT Forty Years a Fur Trader. New York: Francis P. Harper, 1898.

2 vols. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, title in gilt to spine. First edition, limited to 950 copies. Presentation copy from Coues to Mitchell Vincent, with 20 pp. ALS from Coues to Vincent, dated 1895-1898 in both vols. Illustrated with 18 plates of photographs and maps. Wear to boards; rubbing to edges; ends bumped; dampstaining affecting first 50 leaves, vol. 1 and pp. 290-415, vol. 2; intermittent foxing; hinges starting. Property from the Collection of Mitchell Vincent, Fairfield, Iowa $100-200

408 (NATIVE AMERICAN) DRAKE, BENJAMIN The Life and Adventures of Black Hawk: With Sketches of Keokuk, the Sac and Fox Indians, and the Late Black Hawk War. Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1838.

252pp. (correct, contrary to Sabin, Field, Thomson and Howes) Small 8vo, publisher’s blind-stamped cloth. Rare first edition, unseen by Sabin or Thomson, complete with frontispiece and one plate, both included in pagination. Spine chipped with 1/2-inch loss to head; fading to spine; rubbing to boards; intermittent foxing heaviest at endpapers; offsetting from ephemera laid into page 229. $600-800 408A MUHAMMED ALI Prayer and Al-Islam. Chicago: Muhammad Islamic Foundation, 1982.

8vo, publisher’s gilt boards. First edition. Inscribed and dated by Muhammed Ali on the f.f.e.p. Fine. $100-200

409 NIXON, RICHARD The Watergate Tapes. Nashville, TN: FlatSigned Press, 2009.

8vo, gilt-lettered calf, a.e.g. First edition, first printing. One of 94 copies signed by Nixon on the limitation page. Fine. [Together with:] Four cassette recordings of the original Watergate Tapes. $200-400

410 ONASSIS, JACKIE A group of two books inscribed to Jacqueline Onassis.

The Sovereign Sun. By Odysseus Elytis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, (1974). Inscribed on f.f.e.p. by Bob. The Spiritual Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis. By Kimon Friar. S.l.: North Central, 1979. Inscribed on the f.f.e.p. by the author. $200-400

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411 (PEARL HARBOR) HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1st Extra, 10 pages. Issued on the morning of December 7, 1941, with the headline: “WAR! OAHU BOMBED BY JAPANESE PLANES SIX KNOWN DEAD, 21 INJURED, AT EMERGENCY HOSPITAL Attack Made On Island’s Defense Areas”. $500-700

412 (PENNSYLVANIA) LAND INDENTURE Manuscript land indenture, 1 page, on vellum, Pennsylvania, July 19, 1753. 17 x 26 inches. $200-400

413 (PENNSYLVANIA) NORTON, CHARLES BENJAMIN Treasures of Art, Industry, and Manufacture Represented at the International Exhibition 1876. Buffalo, NY: Clay, Coscack, 1877-78.

25 parts. Folio, loose as issued in original printed wraps. Complete with 50 chromolithographed plates of items exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Wear to portfolio with spine and string ties torn; marginal chipping to printed wraps. $600-800

414* POWELL, J. W. 17 Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881-1904. 4to, publisher’s green cloth stamped in gilt with Native American portrait stamped to upper boards, gilt-lettered spine. Numerous photographic illustrations, fold-out maps and diagrams. Conditions vary, with light wear to most boards and some dampstaining, heavy on some vols.; uncollated. Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $400-600

415 PRIEST, JOSIAH American Antiquities, and Discoveries in the West. Albany: Hoffman and White, 1833.

8vo, full calf, title in gilt to red leather spine label. Second edition, revised. With fold-out map and two plates, one fold-out. Wear to boards; ends chipped; intermittent foxing. $100-200 416* RICKENBACKER, EDWARD Rickenbacker: An Autobiography. Englewood Cliffs: PrenticeHall, 1968.

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed and dated “1968” in black ink to f.f.e.p. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs throughout. Fading to boards; some chipping to jacket; otherwise fine. Property from the Collection of Marjorie and Charles Benton, Evanston, Illinois $100-200

417 ROBERTSON, WILLIAM The History of America. Dublin: Whiteston et al., 1777.

2 vols. 8vo, rebound in beige linen, titles in gilt to paper spine labels. With engraved frontispiece to vol. 1 and foldout frontispiece to vol. II. First Dublin edition. Dampstaining to first 5 leaves, vol. 1; offsetting from frontispiece; scattered light brownspotting; otherwise good. $150-250

418 RUTH, BABE Baseball signed (“Babe Ruth”), in pen, with owner’s notations in pen on opposite side. Signature faded; ball soiled. $400-600

419 TRIERS, ADOLPHE The Mississippi Bubble: A Memoir of John Law. New York: W.A. Townsend, 1859.

12mo, publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher’s advertisement endpapers. Fading to boards; ends bumped and frayed; intermittent light foxing. $100-200

420 TRUMAN, HARRY S. Mr. Citizen. New York: Random House, (1960).

8vo, publisher’s cream and blue cloth boards. Second printing. Inscribed on the half-title to Hon. Howard O. Hunter, “from Harry Truman with Kindest regards and happy memories of our association. Harry Truman, 11-20-61.” $200-400

421 WEBSTER, DANIEL Clipped signature. Matted and framed with portrait. Sheet size: 1 1/2 x 4 inches. Size of frame 14 x 11 inches. $80-120

422 (CHICAGO) GEYER, FRANK P. The Holmes-Pitezel Case. A History of the Greatest Crime of the Century. [Philadelphia:] Publisher’s Union, 1896.

8vo, publisher’s decorative boards. Pertaining to the investigation behind the disappearance of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin P. Pitezel. America’s first serial killer, H.H. Holmes, notorious for imprisoning and torturing his victims in a hotel in Chicago he built for himself, trapped the Pitezel’s in an insurance scam, which resulted in the death of Mr. Pitezel, and kidnapped their children, who were found buried in his cellar. Numerous photographic plates throughout. Boards frayed and lightly soiled; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; otherwise good. $100-200

423 (CHICAGO) [Chicago: Its History and Its Builders.] Chicago: Pictorial and Biographical. De Luxe Supplement. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1913.

3 vols. 4to, 3/4 morocco over marbled boards, titles in gilt to spines, titles in red and black. With 139 portraits each with tissue guards. Rubbing to boards; ends chipped; spine detached from backstrip, vol. II; offsetting from plates to tissue guards; otherwise good. $100-200 424* (CHICAGO) A group of five works.

The Great Chicago Fire. By Robert Cromie. Chicago: McGraw-Hill, n.d. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth, dust jacket. Signed. With Chicago Fire Centennial Section laid-in. Fabulous Chicago. By Emmett Dedman. New York: Random House, 1953. 8vo, publisher’s illustrated cloth, dust jacket. First printing. Nature’s Metropolis. By William Cronon. New York and London: W.W. Norton, 1991. 8vo, paper-back. The Great Chicago Fire. Chicago: The Chicago Historical Society, 1946. Thin 8vo, publisher’s grey boards. The Chicago Historical Society 1856-1956. By Paul M. Angle. Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Rand McNally, 1956. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth over linen gilt-stamped boards, slipcase. (5 total) Property from the Collection of Barbara Turner, Long Grove, Illinois $100-200

425 (CHICAGO) COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION A History of the World’s Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.

4 vols. 4to, quarter morocco over marbled boards, spines lettered in gilt, t.e.g. With portrait frontispieces and numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Wear to boards; ends chipped; rear board detached from vol. 1; minor foxing concentrated and endpapers; offsetting from frontispieces. $100-200