This is a one-of-a-kind collection of rare portraits, production stills, and negatives of more than 100 legendary film directors. Found in a file cabinet formerly belonging to Films Incorporated, a Chicago-based 16mm film supplier and home video company that shuttered in the mid 1990s, this was their Director's Index, a.... More
University of California, 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Association copy. Inscribed on title page: "For Victor Cassidy -- I'm glad this introduced us. Mary Barnard, September 26, 1987." Barnard was a celebrated poet, biographer, and translator. Her tutelage under Ezra Pound and friendship with William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and other... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo. 8.5"x5.75". Beige cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. 205 pp. Edge wear to jacket, including 1/2" chip at footer of jacket spine. Price clipped. Signed on front free endpaper. This is a signed first edition of legendary Chicago bookseller Brent's memoir. Brent was the proprietor... More
Viking Press, 1993. First Edition. Boards. Inscribed by both Chicago and Woodman on title page. This book comprises the paintings and prose of legendary artist Judy Chicago with photographs from her husband Donald Woodman from their 8 year (1985-1993) exploration of the Holocaust and their Jewish heritage. The Holocaust Project... More
University of Knowledge, 1941. Cloth. In protective overwrap. Jacket has some tears along edges and a larger tear at top of spine. This is an early edition of this accessible history of primitive humans written by the Coles, distinguished anthropologists at the University of Chicago. With many fine pen illustrations... More
Chicago: The Fair, 1915. First Edition. Boards. 8vo. Decorative boards. Many illustrated plates. Decorative borders. 46 unnumbered pp. Some scuffs and shelf wear to boards. Minor toning to endpapers. Tight and clean. This is a scarce, limited run history of Chicago's first department store, The Fair, privately printed in celebration of the... More
Chicago: Chicago Club, 1960. Cloth. No jacket as issued. 8vo. 8"x5.5". Bound in maroon boards with gilt top edge, gilt lettering on spine, and gilt Chicago Club decoration on front cover. Includes 21 leaves of photographic plates, 2 appendices, and an index. 207 pp. This is an official history of the... More
1934. Hardcover. First page has a nameplate: "Ex Libris Roland H. Bradley" and is stamped twice: "R.H. Bradley" and "APR 9-1934". Light pen marks in pages 111-118 where previous owner bracketed and underlined several passages, mostly dealing with the ACLU. Self-published in 1934, this rare 352-page title details the organizations and... More
1992. Spiral bound. In original envelope with title sticker. This is a rare self-published art zine by Chicago artist Jim Duignan. Spiral-bound and hand-made. Duignan is now a professor of visual arts at DePaul University where he founded the Arts Education Program. He is best known as founder of the... More
Cambridge University Press, 2004. Paperback. This is a socological study of grassroots feminist activism among Africa-American women in Chicago public housing. Fine condition, appears unread. More
Curbside Splendor, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by author on title page. This is a collection of Fitzpatrick's essays originally published in Newcity magazine accompanied by his full-page color illustrations. A true Chicago original. More
Harper and Row, 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Some shelf wear and rubbing at corners and edges of dust jacket. This is a stated first edition of Gitlin and Hollander's humanist study of Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. Studs Terkel called it "an overwhelmingly beautiful book." More
Seabury Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition of Chicago social scientist Greeley's out-of-print study of neighborhoods, both in the abstract and practical sense. In protective overwrap. More
Sage Publications, 1971. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. This is a stated first printing of Herrick's very thorough investigation of Chicago public schools. There are some small stains on front cover and a large stain on the back cover that appears to be a coffee spill. Interior is bright and... More
William B. Eerdman's Publishing Company, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. This is a first edition of Holli and Green's contemporary study of the historic 1983 Chicago mayoral election that put the great Harold Washington, Chicago's first African-American mayor, in office. Signed by Holli on flyleaf. More
Chicago: City of Chicago, 1947. Wraps. 8vo. Paper wraps. Many illustrations and photographic plates. 372 pp. Ex library. Scuffs and stains to wraps, and some tearing to header and footer of spine. Bookplate inside front cover and several withdrawal stamps from Hackley Public Library, Muskegon, MI throughout. Front hinge overopened. Top... More
Chicago: Dharma House, 1970. 3rd edition. Paperback. Small 8vo. Pictorial wraps. 142 pp. Sunning to spine. Small splatter stain on back cover. Bookplate inside front cover. Inscribed by author on title page. This is a collection of short articles on Buddhism and mindfulness signed by Kubose. Kubose was an influential teacher and... More
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 9.25"x6.25". Black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Many photographic plates. 304 pp. Front jacket flap slightly bent. This is a signed first printing of Irv "Kup" Kupcinet's memoir in fine condition. Kup was a prolific Chicago journalist whose... More
Crown, 1950. First Edition. Cloth. Missing dust jacket. Cloth ripped at top left of front cover. This is a first edition, fourth printing of Lait and Mortimer's cheeky collection of true Chicago crime stories. More
Lakeside Press. Low, Joseph. Paperback. Stamped several times with the name "M. Larson." This is a curious illustrated history of book binding and restoration as well as a promotion for Lakeside Press' own hand bindery services. Lakeside Press was a Chicago specialty press that produced fine limited editions in its... More
Chicago: National Committee on Segregation in the Nation's Capital, 1948. First Edition. Pamphlet. 8vo. 9.75"x7". Staple-bound wraps. Many illustrations, maps, and photos. 91 pp. 1" closed tear at top of wrap fold. Light edge wear. Top and bottom corners of front cover creased. Book plate inside front cover, "Compliments of Joseph... More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. 8.75"x5.75". Grey boards and white spine. Pictorial dust jacket. 832 pp. Jacket quite worn around edges, including a 1/2" loss at header of spine. Price clipped, and both jacket flaps are bent. Inscription on front free endpaper. This is an... More
Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965. Second printing of first edition. Cloth. Oblong 4to. 9.25"x12". Off-white cloth wrapped boards. Gilt lettering stamped onto spine and cover. Photographic pastedown on cover. Hand-written introduction by artist followed by many pages of black and white photo plates. Unpaginated. Spine footer is crushed with a slight tear... More
Loyola University Press, 1977. First Edition. Paperback. This is a first edition of Chicago sociologist Marciniak's thorough study of the East Humboldt Park neighborhood. With maps and images. Out of print. Numbered sticker on front cover. More
Chronicle, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed on flyleaf by the great Stephanie Izard. Izard was the first female contestant to win Top Chef (season 4), and a beloved fixture in the Chicago restaurant scene, creative mind behind Fulton Market favorites Girl & the Goat, Little Goat, and Duck Duck Goat... More