Search Results: Illinois from Twin City Antiquarian Books

Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1987 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Blue cloth, x, 202 pp, index. DJ is scuffed in a couple of spots, else as new; in Brodart archival cover. Contents: hints for locating material; published sources; census materials; United States church records and religious denominations; ethnic and Native American sources; military groups and their records; heraldry, nobility, and hereditary societies; passenger lists and naturalization records; special Newberry Library sources; miscellaneous collections; chapters on all regions of the US; foreign sources. The author served on the staff of the Local and Family History Section of the library for ten years. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . As New/Fine. 22 X 14 cm.

Chicago: Marshall Field & Company, 1946 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Stapled in pictorial wraps, 64 pp, many b & w photographs, map of downtown Chicago. Lightly rubbed. Photos & brief text describe both the public and behind-the-scenes areas of Marshall Field & Company circa 1946; highlights of Chicago and a street map of the loop are also provided. Shipping weight 4 oz. in envelope.. Pamphlet. VG/No dj. 20 X 12 cm.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full blue cloth bronze ink titles & ornament on spine, blind decoration on front board, top edge dyed orange, ix, 308 pp. Titles dull, corners bumped, note in ink on ffep. Historical novel set on Prairie Avenue in Chicago. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. Early printing. . VG-/No dj. 21 X 14 cm.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full rust-brown cloth, gilt titles on spine & device on front board, xi, 276 pp, 8 ff b & w photo plates, notes, bibliography, index. Bottom corner of front board lightly bumped, light shelf wear, previous owner's name on recto of ffep. DJ extremities rubbed, one tear under 2 cm at top of rear panel; in Brodart archival cover. Mrs. Palmer's biography also necessarily reveals much about Chicago society in the last third of the nineteenth century. Shipping weight 2 lbs.. First Edition. . VG/VG-. 22 X 15 cm.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press (R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company), 1968 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Full dark blue cloth, gilt titles on spine & device on front board, top edge gilt, xxxvii, 242 pp, b & w illustrations. Reprints the text, title page, and four maps from the 1822 Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown edition, along with an introduction and footnotes added by editor Paul M. Angle. The book also contains a publisher's preface describing R. R. Donnelly's business, including openings of two new plants and a description of an early computer typesetting system. Fits in small flat-rate box. Shipping weight 2 lbs. (International 1 lb., 8 oz.). Reprint. . Fine/No dj. 17½ X 11½ cm.