THE RAIL-ROADS, HISTORY AND COMMERCE OF CHICAGO [wrapper title]
by [Chicago]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Chicago, 1854.. 72pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern cloth. Wrappers wrinkled, with paper repairs. Foremargin reinforcement on verso of front wrapper, similar treatment to upper margin of rear wrapper. Some moderate dampstaining, mostly in upper and lower margins. Occasional fox mark. Overall a good copy. An early history of Chicago, reprinting three articles that originally appeared in the DAILY DEMOCRATIC PRESS. William Bross and John L. Scripps (owners of the newspaper) claimed authorship of this title. This work is a forerunner of the long-lived ANNUAL REVIEW OF COMMERCE. It contains interesting material relating to the rapidly developing state of industry and railroads in Chicago, with commercial and agricultural statistics, and the like. The last five pages, as well as both sides of the rear wrapper, contain many local advertisements. Variant issues exist which contain folding maps, but the original edition was apparently not issued with a map, and both Howes and Byrd describe the first printing as without a map.
This copy contains pencil notes of bookseller Wright Howes on the front endpaper, noting that a copy without wrappers brought $38 in 1923. HOWES C374. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 84. BYRD 2094.
This copy contains pencil notes of bookseller Wright Howes on the front endpaper, noting that a copy without wrappers brought $38 in 1923. HOWES C374. CHICAGO ANTE-FIRE IMPRINTS 84. BYRD 2094.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM20094
- Title
- THE RAIL-ROADS, HISTORY AND COMMERCE OF CHICAGO [wrapper title]
- Author
- [Chicago]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1854.
Terms of Sale
William Reese Company
All material is shipped subject to approval, but notification of return must be made within ten days and returns made in a prompt and conscientious fashion.
About the Seller
William Reese Company
Biblio member since 2006
New Haven, Connecticut
About William Reese Company
Since 1975, William Reese Company has served a large international clientele of collectors and private and public institutions in the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts and in collection development.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.