The great Chicago fire, described in seven letters by men and women who experienced its horrors, and now published in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the catastrophe
The great Chicago fire, described in seven letters by men and women who experienced its horrors, and now published in commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the catastrophe
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b/w Illustration. Very Good in J Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall In pictorial jacket, 4to, 121pp. Illustrated. (shelfwear, fading and nicking to jacket extremities).
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Cover wear, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good- in sun fading, chipping, not price-clipped, Good- jacket. 85pp, octavo. with ephemeral pamphlet from Marshall Field & Company.
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Near fine in Very Good+ jacket. The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8-10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles of the city including over 17, 000 structures, and left more than 100, 000 residents homeless. The fire began in a neighborhood southwest of the city center. A long period of hot, dry, windy conditions, and the wooden construction prevalent in the city, led to the conflagration. The fire leapt the south branch of the Chicago River and destroyed much of central Chicago and then leapt the main stem of the river, consuming the Near North Side. Help flowed to the city from near and far after the fire. The city government improved building codes to stop the rapid spread of future fires and rebuilt rapidly to those higher standards. This copy is near fine in photo illustrated boards with black titles on the spine and front cover. Just slight bumping at the spine ends. The text is clean and unmarked. The clipped DJ shows some edge wear and small tears at the spine ends but no loss. Appears unread. DG.
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Small 4to. Grey cloth with black and red lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. 83pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn and rubbed, with spine rather sunned. Tight, clean, attractive first edition of this well-illustrated standard account, being contemporary accounts of the fire written by Jonas Hutchinson, Mary Fales, George Howland, Aurelia R. King, Anna E. Higginson, Adeline Rossiter Judd and Samuel Stone. Personal copy of Governor Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), twice Democratic presidential candidate, with his boldly pencilled notation on front flyleaf: "Gift from Hermion S. Smith / October 1946."
