Tuthill Jack (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed, dated and inscribed by author on front free endpaper. Stated First Edition. Some edge wear and scuffing on covers. 7.75x5.5 with 275 pages. Brown cloth covered boards. A couple of black spots on upper page edges. 'A few short sketches of life from here ant there about a Big City'. Signed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed, First Edition. This signed first edition has some corner bumping, light edge wear. Hinges and gutters are solid, no shadowing or foxing. Interior text has slightly yellowed with age, clean and tight in binding. the author has signed the upper fep has follows: "12/20/37 To Warren Stults With Best Wishes {signature} Author 'The Mayor of Hall Road'." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed and Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. [viii], 275pp ---- Signed on front free endpaper: With the author's best wishes, Jack Tuthill, Author [light chipping and edge wear to dust jacket] Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. THIS IS AN UNCOMMON BOOK IN FINE CONDITION WITH A FINE DUST JACKET. THE AUTHOR JACK TUTHILL IS DESCRIBED ON THE DUST JACKET AS A "'JACK OF ALL TRADES." ' THE BOOK IS LISTED IN CLARENCC A. ANDREW'S BOOK "'CHICAGO IN STORY'" BY A SHORT PARAGRAFH STATING "A WRITER WHO IMITATES GEORGE ADE," PERHAPS BECAUSE THE FIRST TWO TALES ARE IN THE DIALECT OF AN UNEDUCATED BLACK PERSON. IN THIS READER'S OPINION, THE AUTHOR'S SHORT TALES ARE EXAMPLES OF THE SCHOOL OF REALISIM . THE SHORT TALES CONTAIN MULTIPLE DSISPARAGING "STREET" TERMS SUCH AS "NIGGER HEAVEN" FOR THE CHEAP FIVE CENT PLANK BOARD SEATS IN THE UPPERMOST BALCONY OF A THEATRE. THE AUTHOR CAME TO CHICAGO AS A CHILD IN 1901 AND THE TALES ARE OF THE SEAMY AND DARK SIDE OF EARLY 20 th CENTURY CHICAGO. THE TALES ARE WRITTEN WITH THE DIALECT OF THE DOWN TRODDEN STREET PERSON, THE DRUNKEN STUMBLE BUM, THE OVER-THE-HILL AND OUT OF LUCK FORMER PRIZE FIGHTER, AND ALMOST EVERY TALE EXEMPLIFIES THE SORDID AND DARK SIDED NATURE OF CHICAGO'S CRIMINAL ELEMENT DURING THE EARLY 20th CENTURY. THERE ARE DESCRIPTIONS OF ITS MICKEY FINN AND NICKLE BEER AND ALL YOU CAN EAT SALOONS. WANTON WOMEN, PETTY THIEVES BOTH MALE AND FEMALE, SKILLED PICK POCKETERS, CHINA TOWN'S OPIUM DENS AND DRUG ADDICTS, PRIVATE GAMBLING HOUSES WHERE YOU CANNOT WIN, HONKY-TONK BURLESQUE AND STRIP TEASE THEATRES, AD THE EARLY MAXWELL STREET MARKET RUN BY "GRIMY" JEWS". THERE ARE VIVIDLY DESCRIBED NEIGHBORHOODS AND THEIR ETHNIC IMMIGRANT RESIDENTS SUCH AS THE ITALIANS OF '"LITTLE ITALY" AND THE iRISH DOMINATED "PATCH," CHINATOWN AND ITS OPIUM DENS OF INIQUITY, AND SECRET GAMBLING HOUSES WHERE YOU CAN''T WIN. THERE IS A "HEY RUBE" CALL AND RIOT AT A TRAVELING CIRCUS THAT CAME TO TOWN WITH ITS STATE STREET PARADE, A CALLIOPE, WILD ANIMALS IN CAGES AND CLOWNS. THERE ARE PETTY CRIMINALS AND INNOCENT VICTIMS OF ALL SORTS OF CRIMES. THIS REALISM BOOK ABOUT THE DARK SIDE OF CHICAGO IS A MAJOR DIFFERENCE FROM THE USUAL CHICAGO HISTORY BOOK AND PERHAPS WHY IT IS SO UNCOMMON.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR, and warmly inscribed to "My old pal, Wm. C. Scherwat." Anecdotal memoir of life and doings in Chicago before and during the Depression, with an interesting chapter on Maxwell Street which served as a source for Ira Berkow's history. Extremely scarce. Signed.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Signed first edition of Side-shows of a Big City: Tales of Yesterday and Today by Jack Tuthill. (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [8], 275pp, [3]. Brown cloth, title in gilt on front cover and spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, bumped corners, faint offsetting to endpapers, a near fine example. In the publisher's dust jacket, chipped along edges, sunned spine. Rear flap previously detached, repaired with archival tissue on verso. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "Harry and Mabel --- With the author's every good wish / Jack Tuthill, author." Inscription dated 7/2/49. Signed.