SINGLE ONE SIDED PRINTED B/W POSTER BROADSIDE ENTITLED - CHICAGO AUG. "68 "A CLOSED CONVENTION IN A CLOSED CITY S. D. S." THE POSTER FEATURES THE FACE OF THE CHICAGO MAYOR, RICHARD J. DALEY, ALSO PORTRAYED IS THE JOHN HANCOCK BUILDING, THE CHICAGO WATER TOWER AND A NUMBER OF PROSTESTERS. FOUR ARMED NATIONAL GUARDSMEN WITH THEIR RIFLES DRAWN ARE PORTRAYED. A SIGNATURE "A. J. EPSTEIN" PRESUMABLY THE ARTIST IS AT THE BASE OF THE HANCOCK BUILDING. THE POSTER IS FIRMLY GLUED TO A THIN POSTERBOARD MATERIAL. A RARE PRELUDE TO THE UP-COMING 1968 CHICAGO DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION Size: Seller Inventory # 68132

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Title: CHICAGO - AUGUST, 68. - A CLOSED CONVENTION ...

Publisher: STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY, NEWYORK, NY

Publication Date: 1968

Binding: No Binding

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Edition.

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Aah! Rare Chicago specializes in collections of Chicago authors such as David Mamet, Ben Hecht, Vincent Starrett,James T. Farrell, Eugene Field, George Ade, Studs Terkel and many others along with collections of Chicago Publishers such as Stone and Kimball and Way and Willams. We have hundreds of books about Chicago dating back to the early 1800s including Crime, Prostitution, Banking, Mayors, Architecture, Newspapers, Sports, the 1968 Democratic convention riots including posters and the subsequent conspiracy trial, Prefire imprints and Business. Much of the material is very difficult to find material such as in early in magazines and other ephemera.

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