Galena Guide (45 results)
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paperback. Condition: Very Good. A nice softcover copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean. Softcovers are good (clean, no creasing, no edge wear). Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery. Shipped in 100% recyclable material.
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Published by Private Publisher, Galena, IL 1961
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Cover corners and edges are lightly rubbed. Binding is tight.
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Published by Galena-Jo Daviess County Historical Society, Galena, IL 1999
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Illus. , maps; 79 pages.
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Language: English
Published by City of Galena 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.Book Stall of Rockford, Inc.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in blue card covers. No wear to the covers. Some light surface soiling. Pages are tight clean no marks. A little bit of foxing. Folding color map at rear (no tears). No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No sun fading.
Published by Harbin & Harbin, Galena 1953
- Softcover
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers and brown cloth spine. (7pp), 111pp. Advertisements, foldout map on yellow stock. Very good. Faintest of wear to outer wrappers (only), else tight and superb; "Street and Avenue Directory" at rear (pp. 78-100) bears a number of ink crossouts. Tight and attractive copy of this directory o…f the northwest Illinois Jo Daviess county seat, adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. Quite nice copy of a title seldom seen.
Published by Harbin & Harbin, Galena 1953
- Softcover
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Small 4to. Stiff grey wrappers and brown cloth spine. (7pp), 111pp. Advertisements, foldout map on yellow stock. Near fine. Exceptionally tight and unusually handsome copy of this directory of the northwest Illinois county seat, adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. Truly an outstanding condition copy of a title rarel…y found in respectable condition. Published by the local job printer located in the very building from whence this catalogue description is written.
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- Softcover
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Galena Guide
compiled and Written by Federal Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration (Illinois) [Nelson Algren] [Delson - Woodcuts]
Published by The City of Galena, Galena, IL 1950
- Softcover
Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA)
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and wear. There is a rectangular patch of light toning to the bottom half of the front book co…ver. The text pages are clean and bright. "Native Americans, primarily Meskwaki, Ho-Chunk, Sauk, and Menominee had mined galena in the area for more than a thousand years before European Americans settled in the area. [8] Owing to these deposits, Galena was the site of the first major mineral rush in the United States. By 1828, the population was estimated at 10,000, rivaling the population of Chicago at the time. Galena developed as the largest steamboat hub on the Mississippi River north of St. Louis. Galena was the home of Ulysses S. Grant and eight other Civil War generals. Today, the city is a tourist destination known for its history, architecture, and resorts. " (from Wikipedia) .
- Softcover
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Seller: Forgotten Books, London, United KingdomForgotten Books
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book details the rich history of Galena, a prominent US city from the 1800s. The author provides historical insights into the humble origins of this Northwestern frontier, its rapid growth as a lead-mining center, and its eventual decline with the discovery of abundant lead and zi…nc deposits elsewhere. Originally named Fever River, Galena emerged as a crucial trading hub, gaining prominence in the antislavery movement and welcoming famed Civil War general Ulysses S. Grant as a resident for a time. This book offers a captivating look at Galena's transformation from a rugged mining town to a city steeped in lore. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.
Published by City of Galena, Galena 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. First Edition. Small 4to. Rebound in red cloth with gilt front board lettering (with original stiff blue pictorial front wrapper bound in). 79pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, linoleum-block engravings, small color foldout map at rear. Very good. Binding rather edgeworn and a bit rubbed, mainly along spine; original fr…ont wrapper and text block quite nice and tight; foldout map at rear bears some discreet archival mends on verso; mild ex-library with very few markings. Tight and decent first edition of this Federal Writers' Project city guide, long thought to have been written anonymously by the then-obscure young writer Nelson Algren (1909-81), who went on to far greater fame as the ?Poet of the Chicago Slums,? author of ?The Man with the Golden Arm? (1949) and other classic Chicago fiction. One of the most desirable of the WPA city guides. The Richard Delson plates are simple but striking and powerful; the often-absent color map at rear is bright and handsome. And while Jerre Mangione's "The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project 1935-1943 (1972) repeats Algren's exaggeration that he wrote the "Galena Guide," historian Richard F. Bales tackles this issue anew, relying on primary source material and close textual analysis in his essay "Who Wrote the Galena Guide?" (pp. 180-194 in his 2024 "Nelson Algren: His Life, Work and Colleagues") to persuasively settle the issue. He finds Algren's claim inaccurate and misleading, concluding that "Algren edited the the Guide, he even revised and rewrote the Guide." Deaccessioned from the library of the very city it celebrates. DYKES 81.
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Published by City of Galena, Galena 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bohemian Bookworm, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.Bohemian Bookworm
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two Federal Writers' Projects booklets for towns in Illinois, softcover, 1st edn, uncommon. Galena-79pps, photographs, f/o color map, 1937; and Rockford-144pps w/index, 1941, photos, brown type, VG copies. Sold as a lot.
Language: English
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, , IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1973 edition.… NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 40 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.
Published by The City of Galena, Galena 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated wrappers. 79pp (15). Compiled and Written by Federal Writers' Project (Illinois)/Works Progress Administration. Two maps in-text and a color folding map attached to the interior of the rear cover. An American Guide Series volume. Mangione states in his work, The Dream…and the Deal (p121) that Nelson Algren, novelist of The Man With The Golden Arm "wrote most of the Galena Guide, one of the best of the small-town guidebooks in the American Guide Series." A bright and solid copy with some minor soiling. Dykes, #81. Very Good.
Published by Self Published 1996
- Softcover
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.Crossroad Books
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Softcover; white plastic comb binding. Three twenty-page sections are inverted in binding, but all pages present. Rear cover starting to tear away from the comb binding. Light bumping around edges of rear cover. Else covers clean. Pages clean. ; B&W Illustrations; ART20C; 11 x 8.…5"; 474 pages.
More imagesGalena Illinois [WPA] American Guide Series
Federal Writer's Project (Illinois); Nelson Algren (main contributor); Robert Delson (Illustrator)
Published by City of Galena 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.A Book Preserve/ John A. Crider, Bookseller
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+. Crackle-textured blue and gold wrappers. No ownership markings. 8vo. 79 pp. Frontis.; maps.; illus. [possibly woodcuts]; biblio.; an insert of photos on glossy page stock (23); color fold-out map. Also a year by year annals of notable historical events; and list of interviewee-…informants. The attached color fold-out map is bright and free of tears with some tanning to backside/verso only. A few tanning spots to last glossy blank page. "The Galena Guide is first of a series of city guide books to be published in Illinois by the Federal Writer's Project" [WPA]. The novelist Nelson Algren was the main author of the text. The 18 woodcut illustrations by Robert Delson, including the frontispiece, are particularly accomplished. There is a small self-portrait of Delson on p. 10. Ships fast and securely with tracking.
Published by City of Galena, Galena 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. First Edition. 8vo. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 79pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, linoleum-block engravings, small color foldout map at rear. Very good. Quite faint wear and age toning to outer wrappers (only), else internally tight and near fine. Nice first edition of this Federal Writers' Project city guide, lon…g thought to have been written anonymously by the then-obscure young writer Nelson Algren (1909-81), who went on to far greater fame as the "Poet of the Chicago Slums," author of "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1949) and other classic Chicago fiction. One of the most desirable of the WPA city guides. The Richard Delson plates are simple but striking and powerful; the often-absent color map at rear is bright and handsome. And while Jerre Mangione's "The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers' Project 1935-1943" (1972) repeats Algren's exaggeration that he wrote the "Galena Guide," historian Richard F. Bales tackles this issue anew, relying on primary source material and close textual analysis in his essay "Who Wrote the Galena Guide?" (pp. 180-194 in his 2024 "Nelson Algren: His Life, Work and Colleagues") to persuasively settle the issue. He finds Algren's claim inaccurate and misleading, concluding that "Algren edited the Guide, he even revised and rewrote the Guide." From the library of Terry J. Miller (1949-2025), long-time director of the U.S. Grant Home and Illinois State Historic Sites in Galena. DYKES 81.
More imagesGalena Guide : American Guide Series
Federal Writers' Project (Illinois), Works Progress Administration; [Nelson Algren]
Published by The City of Galena / Works Progress Administration, [Galena, Illinois] 1937
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. [Galena, Illinois]: The City of Galena / Works Progress Administration, 1937. A gorgeous copy that appears unread. Fine condition with just a tiny touch of age toning along the edge of the rear wrapper. Virtually NO wear. SEE PHOTOS. Bright, clean, and tight -- remarkably… well-preserved. Sharp corners. The spine is square and flat. NOT a library discard. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are creamy white, fresh and crisp -- apparently never read. NO foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. Softcover. 6" wide by 9" tall. One of the scarcest titles in the American Guide Series. Mostly written by Nelson Algren. His third appearance in print. The color foldout map of Galena, Illinois is in perfect condition. Illustrated with maps and numerous woodcuts in the text, plus 23 photos on 15 plates on glossy paper. Bound in the original blue pictorial wraps, printed in blue and gold. Dykes 81. Powell 319. McCollum p43. Bruccoli B2. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine condition. 79pp. + 15 pages of photographs.
Language: English
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Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, , IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1961 edition.… NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 48 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Volume 1961D.
