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Boss
de Mike Royko
This is the story of the late Richard J. Daley, politician and self-promoter extraordinaire, from his inauspicious youth on Chicago’s South Side through his rapid climb to the seat of power as mayor and boss of the Democratic Party machine. A bare-all account of Daley’s cardinal sins as well as his milestone achievements, this scathing work by Chicago journalist Mike Royko brings to life the most powerful political figure of his time: his laissez-faire policy toward corruption, his unique...
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The Lost City
de Alan Ehrenhalt
Lost City is a 2004 novel by Clive Cussler. It tells of Kurt Austin's dealings with the Fauchard family, which has dominated the weapons industry for several thousand years, their secret past, the monsters they have created, and the plague they have unleashed on the worlds oceans, all in a quest for immortality.
Eagle Forgotten
de Harry Barnard
The biography of John Peter Altgeld whose courage makes him an inspiration to those who still believe in the American dream.
Illinois Libros & Coleccionables
Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
de Cohen, Lizabeth
Cambridge University Press, 1991. Paperback. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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EUR 5.71
History of Cook County Illinois, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
de ANDREAS, A.T
Chicago: A.T. Andreas, Publisher, 1884. Hardcover. 4to. Modern rebind in full black leatherette with gilt spine lettering. Pp. 33-888 (as published). Frontispiece, maps, chromolithograph, numerous illustrations. Fine/very good. New binding pristine; text block lightly age toned. A superb first edition of this hefty landmark study in a striking modern binding instead of the invariably worn and saggy original binding. Scarce.
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EUR 283.44
Trial
de HAYDEN, Tom
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Black cloth titled in white, stamped with a red fist to front board, in white typographic dust jacket; [vi],168pp. Lightly rubbed at edges, minor stain to fore-edge, else clean and stable: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $4.95), lightly rubbed and toned at edges, bumped at head with short tear and several creases, generally Very Good. Account of the trial of the Chicago 7, seven defendants accused (and...
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EUR 28.34
The Emergence of Lincoln (Two Volume Set)
de Nevins, Allan
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. Two Volumes, Hardcovers, no dustjackets, red cloth covers. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Cover.
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EUR 33.07
Constructing Chicago.
de Bluestone, Daniel
New Haven.,: Yale University Press. , 1991.. Reprint. . Soft cover. . Fine copy. . 4to.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition.
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EUR 25.51
![Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis [signed copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/221/641/1357641221.0.b.jpg)
Chicago Architecture 1872-1922: Birth of a Metropolis [signed copy]
de ZUKOWSKY, John
Munich / Chicago: Prestel / Art Institute of Chicago, 1987. First Edition. Generically inscribed and signed on front endpaper, with author's "R.I.P. Chicago Architecture" ink stamp. Fine, unworn copy in crisp, bright dustwrapper with a single, tiny spot of rubbing at crown of spine panel; near-new.
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EUR 70.86
The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues Of Community In America
de Alan Ehrenhalt
Paperback / softback. New. In this examination of life in America in the 1950s, Alan Ehrenhalt reveals how an earlier generation fostered a sense of community by accepting limits in their lives and by deferring to authority figures to enforce those limits.
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EUR 41.94
CHICAGO A Personal History of America's Most American City
de Farr, Finis
New Rochelle: Arlington House. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0870001795 . Wear and chipping to price clipped DJ. DJ shows dampstaining and inexpert tape repair. Dampstaining to lower right hand of book block, scarcely affecting text. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper; A comprehensive history of the city, from when glaciers formed Lake Michigan up through 1968; 8vo; 428 pages .
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EUR 17.95
100 Years of Architecture in Chicago: Continuity of Structure and Form : Exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
de Grube, Oswald W
Wilcox & Follett Book Co. Oblong softcover. Slight creases on the corners of the back. Otherwise a strong, umarked copy with light wear from use. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1977.
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EUR 15.07
Lost Chicago
de Lowe, David Garrard
New York: American Legacy Press; Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1985. xii, 241 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. First published, 1975. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket toned, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.
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EUR 11.81
The Papers of Adlai E. Stevenson: Governor of Illinois, 1949-1953 Volume 3
de Stevenson, Adlai E. with Johnson, Walter (Editor)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1973. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. 621 pages. Shows Stevenson speaking out on the local and national issues of the day and wrestling with his political problems such as the revision of the State's constitution, improving its public welfare and education programs, drafting anti-discrimination laws and fighting against organised crime and juvenile deliquency etc....
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![Pierwszemu Oddziatowi Robotniczego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Dzieci w dalekiej Ameryce w mieście Chicago-ofiarowuje zdjęcia z działalności swej w Polsce... [To the First Division of the Workers' Society of Friends of Children in Far America in the city of Chicago-an offering of photographs of their activities in Poland.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/076/573/1321573076.0.b.0.jpg)
Pierwszemu Oddziatowi Robotniczego Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Dzieci w dalekiej Ameryce w mieście Chicago-ofiarowuje zdjęcia z działalności swej w Polsce... [To the First Division of the Workers' Society of Friends of Children in Far America in the city of Chicago-an offering of photographs of their activities in Poland.]
de T. Arciszewski and Al. Landy, Managers; [Robotnicze Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Dzieci (RTPD)]
[Poland, c.1920s]. [21]ff. Album. 9½ x 13 inches. Beige cloth with colorful woven onlay; cord-bound. 23 captioned photographs mounted on black cardstock rectos, approx. 4¾ x 8¾ inches, tissue guards. Brief wear to head and tail of spine and corners; very good. Made by the Workers' Society of Friends of Children in Warsaw, and given to their Chicago branch, this 1920s photograph album illustrates the strong link between Poles living in Warsaw and Chicago, reflecting the wider story of the Polish...
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Sugar Creek : Life on the Illinois Prairie
de John Mack Faragher
Yale University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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EUR 7.42
Chicago, With Love: A Polite and Personal History
de MEEKER, Arthur, Jr
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth spine with gilt lettering and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 293pp, ix. Illustrations. Very good/good plus. Binding spine unevenly sunned, else tight; jacket quite edgeworn, a bit sunned and rubbed, with large paper loss at head of spine. Nice first edition of these (to cite front jacket panel) "Warmhearted memories of Chicago and Chicago Society -- its life, leaders, and sensational events, its activities and...
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lincolns herndon
de david donald
378 pages, pages and binding intact, one spot on front cover.
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EUR 14.17
LOST CHICAGO
de Lowe, David
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Light chipping and small tears to price clipped DJ. Former owner's name on front free endpaper; Profusely illustrated with what is no longer there. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 241 pages .
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EUR 35.90
Cows on Parade in Chicago
de Sullivan, Mary Ellen
Partners Publishers Group, 1999. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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EUR 6.12
Fabulous Chicago
de emmett Dedmon
Random House, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 359 pages, illustrated. Light wear; some discoloring to the illustrated covers, pages; a good sound binding. No jacket. Signed by Dedmon inside. 1835-1930. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: American History; Inventory No: 196551. .
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EUR 9.45
The Seven Stairs
de Stuart Brent
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 8" by 5.5". None. A first edition of this autobiography by Chicago bookseller and TV personality, Stuart Brent. First printing. With an ink inscription from Brent to 'Elna' to the front endpaper. In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Dustwrapper is quite smart, though with some instances of foxing, and some slight edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Ink inscription to front...
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EUR 53.30
Rare Signed Stock Certificate
de DETROIT TIGERS
Chicago, 1914. unbound. Exceedingly rare partly printed document signed, measuring 8.25 x 11 inches -- a stock certificate issued by the Tigers Base Ball Club on April 13, 1914, certifying that E. K. Brashian is "the owner of one shares of one hundred dollars each of the Capital Stock of The Tigers Base Ball Club transferable only on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person or by Attorney upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed." This offering was incorporated...
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The Great Chicago Fire
de Angle, Paul M
Chicago: Chicago Historical Society. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Boards worn, jacket soiled and tattered.. 1946. Hardcover. Subtitle: Described in Seven Letters by Men and Women who Experienced its Horrors, and Now Published in Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Catastrophe. Introduction and notes by Paul M. Angle. Photos. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 85 pages .
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EUR 14.17
The Currency Problem. The Problem of the Socialist Party Today
de [MONETARY REFORM] SANDBERG, Karl F.M. [Ferdinand Marius]
Chicago: by the Author, (1915). First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed pink paper wrappers; 48pp. Mild toning and wear to wrappers; internally clean, sound, and unmarked; Very Good. A somewhat scarce and early work by the Chicago medical doctor and Socialist Party organizer. Advocates the abolition of currency to be replaced with a system of social credit and labor checks.
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EUR 42.52
Constructing Chicago
de Bluestone, Daniel
Yale University Press, 1993. Paperback. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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EUR 6.24
Black Metropolis (A Study of Negro Life in A Northern City)
de CAYTON, Horace R and St Clair Drake
Jonathan Cape, London, 1946. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. First British edition, first printing. Thick, heavy 8vo. in black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, black printed top edge of page block, in the very rare and un-clipped dust jacket. 809pp, numerous tables, maps, charts, graphs in text, etc. __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy (pages slightly tanned, tiny slight crease to bottom corner tip of front cover from bumping) in a tanned and dusty but otherwise...
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MEET MOROCCO JONES: THE CASE OF THE SYNDICATE HOODS
de Baynes, Jack (pseud. of Bertram Fowler)
NY: Fawcett Crest, 1957. 1st edition, December 1957, so stated. Paperback Original. Crest Books #195. [.25 cover price]. Vintage paperback. A flawless copy with no creases, tight and square and bright. Chicago. In the first book in this classic series, a former CIA spy behind the German lines in WW2 and secret agent fighting the Russian KGB in Europe during the Cold War, returns to the states to find himself up against the dirtiest plot ever against the U.S. Russia's top secret agent has...
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EUR 22.68
