Books, Manuscripts, & Photographs From the Collection of Kenan Heise
by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
826 lots
2004
Lot 1: The Cliff Dwellers
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Description: By Henry B. Fuller. Harper & Bros: NY 1893.The book is an attractive, rare first edition with a slightly-distracting color line on the front cover. Otherwise VG+
View additional info »Lot 2: Rare and Beautiful Imprints of Chicago
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Description: By J. Christian BayRemarks Accompanying an Exhibit before the Bibliographical Society of America, December 30,1921. Printed for the Friends of Walter M. Hill, 1922. Reprinted from the Papers and Proceedings of the Bibliographical Society of America.
View additional info »Lot 3: Chicago Stories
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Description: By George Ade. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon and othersHenry Regnery Company, 1963. Blue cloth, pictorial, not-price-clipped dust jacket. 274pp. Frontispiece, line drawings, pictorial endpapers. Ade is a Chicago literary treasure. F/F.
View additional info »Lot 4: Wealth Against Commonwealth
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Description: By Henry Demarest LloydHarper & Brothers, 1894. First. IV, 563pp.; A beautiful copy of this muckraking and thoroughly-researched denouncement of the monopolies and trusts of the 1890s, especially Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. Lloyd had cut his teeth as an editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune.
View additional info »Lot 5: The Gang
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Description: By Frederic M. ThrasherUniversity of Chicago Press, 1927. First, with highly-treasured, mended map showing the territories of late 1920s Capone and other gangs. A pioneering sociological study of 1,313 gangs and crime in the city. XXI, 572pp 8vo. Flyleaf page is missing. Map is excellent and cover, VG+ and hard-plastic-protected.
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