Chicago: Tribune Company's Book and Job Printing Office, 51 Clark Street, 1863. First Edition. Octavo. 248pp. Printed wraps, removed. Light chipping to corners of wraps with general smudging and soiling; exposure to spine. Binding sound and pages unmarked; about Very Good. Uncommon record of the Civil War era, ante-fire Ship-Canal..... More
![Item #21386 [Original Patent Application No. 370,011 Accomplished in Manuscript] "To all to whom...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/21386.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673999255)
Washington: H. Peters, 1887. Folio (30.5cm.); ribbon-bound engraved self-wrappers, wax-sealed and accomplished in manuscript; [8]ll. of photo-engraved plans printed on versos only, followed by [3]pp. text printed in double columns on rectos only. Previous mail folds, extremities a bit chipped and toned, ribbons slightly frayed, else Very Good, internally clean..... More
Chicago: John C.W. Bailey, 1864. Seventh Edition. 12mo; publisher's brown embossed cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt; 176pp. Light rubbing and bumping to cloth margins; binding sound; light spotting to terminals, else unmarked; Very Good or better. An ante-fire collection of Masonic instructions by Thomas Smith Webb, the author of..... More
![Item #46834 [Exhibition Catalog] Exhibition of Negro Artists of Chicago. featured artists,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/46834.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1768853639)
Washington, DC: Howard University Gallery of Art, 1941. First Edition. Bifolium (28x20cm); illustrated wraps. Folds, soiling, light chipping, else Very Good and sound. Quite uncommon exhibition catalog for a show held at Howard University's Gallery of Art and celebrating artists from the Chicago Black Renaissance, including a young..... More
Chicago, IL: Chicago Branch of the General Recruiting Union of the Industrial Workers of the World, [ca. 1965]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); publisher's staple bound wrappers; 36pp.; illus. throughout, text printed mimeograph from typescript. Wrappers unevenly toned, else Very Good and sound. Articles include Craig T. Beagle's "How..... More
Chicago: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co., ca. 1875. Small pictorial broadside flyer. (16.5x33cm) printed in black. Stock worn, toned, and chipped, with a few instances of soiling, extensive splitting along old folds with tape repair to verso. Good only. Promotional broadside for the Chicago, Rock Island &..... More
Philadelphia: Women’s Resource Distribution Company, 1981. First Edition. Slim quarto (12x4in); [32]pp. Publisher’s flimsy photographic boards; staple-bound. Illustrations throughout. Boards lightly bumped. Binding sound. Textblock and interior pages clean. Very Good or better wall calendar celebrating Judy Chicago’s famous feminist art installation while it was still a traveling exhibition... More