GenderFail Press, 2016. Paperback. 8vo. Staple-bound wraps. Risographed cover. This is an out-of-print zine by Chicago artist Barr about the history of make-up and the exploitation of women's bodies. With a GenderFail Press submission flier laid in. More

New York: D. Appleton, 1933. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth with original pastedown on spine and front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Spot of dark discoloration on fore edge. Some scuffing to rear cover. More

Aleph Press, 2005. Paperback. 8vo. Staple-bound wraps. Minor scuffing to wraps. Not in OCLC. This is an early poetry chapbook by influential Chicago poet Kevin Coval, published prior to his debut collection, Slingshots. Coval founded the long-running youth poetry slam Louder Than an a Bomb in Chicago in 2001. Later..... More

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1977. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. Publisher's cloth. Frontispiece portrait. 110 pp. Attractive bookplate of James M. Goode inside front cover. A fine copy. This is a limited edition, finely printed statement of purpose by the legendary Chicago printers R.R. Donnelley and Sons. More

New York: Coward-McCann, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original beige cloth, stamped in green; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Dust jacket price-clipped, and with slight sunning to spine, slight wear to ends of spine panel, front panel with pencil scrawls and small stain near top. Provenance: From the library of noted..... More

New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in black; dust jacket (unclipped). Author's first book. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Edwin Baird - This sketchy barrage of the bang-bang Chicago which we both know. / Affectionately MacKinlay Kantor / August 9, 1918." (Presumably..... More

New York: Bloomsbury, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Boards. Dust jacket. Signed by McClelland on title page. This is a signed first printing biography of President Obama, focusing on his life in Chicago. More

Putnam, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Association copy. This is first edition of Paretsky's Chicago police thriller inscribed to and previously owned by (famous/infamous) Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan: "Lisa Madigan, you really are the best thing that's happened to Illinois probably since Lincoln. Good wishes always, Sara Paretsky, 06.06.2011." This..... More

New York: Harcourt Brace World, 1956. Hardcover. 8vo. Cloth. Dust jacket. Daugherty's woodcut illustrations throughout. 222 pp. 1" closed tear to bottom edge of front jacket cover. Price-clipped. An excellent copy. This is a vintage juvenile book reprinted from Carl Sandburg's classic Lincoln biographies and illustrated by James Daugherty. More

Memphis: Mansfield Drug Company, 1893. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Decorated cloth. Full page black and white photographic plates. Scuffing to exterior. Blank front free endpaper torn. Some soiling to edges. Tight and clean. More