8vo, 291 pages, blue art deco cloth; dj chipped at tips, spine darkened James O'Mara grows up in Chicago against the background of the Haymarket Riot, and the 1894 Pullman Strike. It carries the disclaimer, "since this is a story of a city, truth to the lives of individuals has been subordinated to truth to the life of the city -CHICAGO IN STORY, p. 238." With striking woodcuts by Ruth Kellogg. Russell was a newspaper reporter from the South Side. She has autobiographical comments on the dust jacket. Her grandmother was a pioneer in Chicago, having arrived in 1836.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

LAKE FRONT

Publisher

Thomas S. Rockwell, Chicago

Publication Date

1931

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Ruth Kellogg's woodcuts

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

very good

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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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