Kewanee, Ill. Kewanee Printing & Publishing Co., 1910. Softcover. First edition. 16mo. [16]pp. Stapled printed pale brown wrappers. Slightest wear, about fine. This original schedule primarily served as a vehicle for advertisements of local Kewanee businesses: movie theatre, billiards room, cafes, cigars, political ads, photographers, and boilers (Kewanee was an..... More

(Chicago: The Numero Group, 2009). Hardcover. First edition. Introduction by Nick Hornby. Oblong quarto. 132pp. Illustrated with beautifully reproduced black and white photographs, as well as a color Appendix of ephemera from the era. Fine in pictorial boards, with 2 LPs in fine printed sleeves and fine pictorial gatefold jacket..... More

Princeton, (New Jersey): Princeton University Art Museum, (2014). Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 271pp. Heavily illustrated. Boards with cloth spine. Binding a trifle cocked and worn, about fine. Published in conjunction with the 2014-15 show of the same name that exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Princeton..... More

Cincinnati: C.F. Vent, 1872. Hardcover. Later printing. Green pebbled cloth, blind-stamped boards, gilt-stamped spine. Illustrated by Chapin & Gulick. With folded map of Chicago. Owner's name penned on label affixed to front pastedown, pages foxed, spine ends modestly worn, minor stains on a few pages, still very good. More

[Philadelphia]: [no publisher], [1932-1945]. Hardcover. Small quarto. Blue cloth gilt, entitled *Book Shelf Scrap Book*. Very good condition, with some yellowing to newspaper clippings and occasional loose items. A book compiled by William James Conlen's wife, Jean, focused on the years 1932-1939, which contains newspaper clippings, 32 gelatin silver photographs..... More

Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1939. Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. 64, [2 photographic plates] pp. Illustrated wrappers. Wraps toned and soiled, nicks at the spine ends, last couple pages with light foxing, very good. More

Geneva, IL: Nit & Wit, 1986. Softcover. Periodical. 48pp. Illustrated. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Fine. Chicago-based literary arts magazine that includes: "Jean-Luc Godard: What is the 'Hail Mary' Moral Issue?" an interview with Godard by Allen Barra, fiction by B.S. Jones, June Rachuy Brindel, Philip Graham, and Musa Mayer, and more..... More

Chicago: Chicago Assembly S.A.M., 1948-1955. Softcover. Bound, broken run of 33 issues of the monthly periodical for the Chicago Assembly of the Society of American Magicians. Founded in August, 1919, it is also called Assembly #3 because it was founded after those in New York and Philadelphia. The majority of..... More

(London: Associated Press), [1964?]. Unbound. Wire photo, "picture by cable from New York." Measuring approximately 9¼" x 6" on slightly larger paper. A bit of modest creasing, about near fine with caption snipe and agency stamp verso. More

Chicago: Harold Rossiter Music Company, 1916. Softcover. Later printing. Quarto. Two nested bifolia making eight pages. Exterior with toning and soiling, some minor edgewear, very good. For voice and piano. Plate imprint, "Little Puff Of Smoke, Good Night 5." The composer of this piece, G. Harris "Doc" White (1879-1969), was..... More

Cincinnati: John Church & Co., 1879. Softcover. Later printing. Folio. Single bifolium with a single-sheet-insert making six pages. Bifolium separated along the fold though both leaves are present and taped together, owner's inscription in pencil on the front cover, edgewear, and toning to the exterior, a complete but good only..... More

New York: Drake Publishers, (1975). Hardcover. First edition. 226pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Slight foxing on topedge, near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small tears, and a lightly sunned spine. More