THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION. Chicago: Its Past,Present and Future. Embracing a Detailed Narrative of the Great Conflagration .
Published by Union Publishing Co., Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, 1871
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Thomas J. Joyce And Company
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 75.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Octavo; 450 [irregular pagination], [ii] pages; embossed original green cloth One of the two contemporary, popular, book-length accounts of the fire of October, 1871, known as The Great Chicago Fire. Written by two journalists. [Jewel V25]. Includes the anecdote of the policeman who saved his house by showering it with apple cider ! 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts. Includes a poem, "Chicago" by John Greenleaf Whittier: "Men said at vestpers: All is well ! / In one wild night the city fell".
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION. Chicago: Its Past,Present and Future. Embracing a Detailed Narrative of the Great Conflagration .
- Author
- SHEAHAN, James W. & Geo. P. UPTON
- Publisher
- Union Publishing Co., Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia
- Publication year
- 1871
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Illustrator
- 2 folding maps, 44 woodcuts
- Edition
- First edition.
- Seller catalogs
- history, HISTORY::United States::19th Century, HISTORY::United States::State & Local::Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), POETRY::American, TECHNOLOGY::Fire Science
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since March 25, 2011
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera. …
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