London: J. Drury, 1821. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's plum blind-embossed textured cloth, gilt-tooled spine label; [4],224pp. (lacking errata leaf); lithographed frontispiece, thirteen plates (collated complete). Cloth expertly rebacked with original spine laid down, margins a bit scuffed with exposure at corners, brief discoloration to rear cover, remnants only of 19th-century..... More

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

Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); unpaginated. Publisher’s stiff staple-bound wraps retaining 50¢ stamp at front panel. Wraps lightly bumped and smudged. Binding sound. Textblock, endsheets, and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Inaugural issue of this scarce poetry periodical. Featuring contributions from Alice Notley, Ted..... More

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

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 Charles White..... 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 & Pacific Railroad..... More

Chicago, IL: Black Cat Press, 1937. First Edition Stated. Slim octavo; publisher's brown cloth, printed paper paste-on to upper cover; 69pp.; title page vignette by Rex Cleveland. Shallow damp stain along bottom edge of rear cover slightly affecting upper cover, corners bumped, contemporary ex libris to front pastedown, else a...... More

Illinois: Frank's Fine Art Car, n.d., ca. early 1890s. Original albumen cabinet card of a serious young woman with her multi-thong riding whip (13x10cm) affixed to card mount (16.5x11cm) captioned along bottom edge "Frank's Fine Art Car." Image and mount a bit foxed along top edge, brief peeling from mount..... More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. 316 pages. Dark red boards stamped in gilt. Lacks dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards and some chewing along edges of rear panel. Three stain rings from a glass to front panel. Binding is sound. Ownership stamp..... More

Chicago, IL: Poetry &, 1976-1978. Seventeen tabloid-format volumes (29cm); photo-illustrated self-wrappers; illus. throughout. Textblock uniformly toned as usual, else a Very Good to Near Fine set. Publication sequence as follows: Vol. 1, nos. 1-5,7-11; Vol. 2, nos. 1, 3-8. Substantial if incomplete run of this scarce Chicago-based poetry monthly. More

New York: Crown, 2018. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's binding with unclipped pictorial dust jacket; [xviii], 226pp. Minor shelfwear to jacket; corners crisp; pages clean and unmarked; binding sound. Overall, a Very Good copy in like jacket. Signed without inscription on leaf tipped in at head of volume. More

Chicago: Nora Sandler / Poems to Chew On, November 2012. Correspondence and objects related to Poems to Chew On, a project that reprinted and sold poems out of gumball machines on the University of Chicago’s campus. Work by Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, and Jack Spicer, among others, went for 25¢..... More

Chicago: Henry M. Sherwood, Publisher, 1865. First Edition. Octavo; dark brown pebbled cloth with gilt stamping to spine; dark topstain; yellow endpapers; 477 + 3pp. advertisements. Frontis with tissue guard. Boards rebacked with original spine laid down; sympathetic cloth to spine ends; brief exposure to corners; binding sound; spotting to..... More