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Good. Cloth hardbound octavo with gold emboss; illustrated with 10 b&w portraits; 381 pp. Good copy shows wear and soil; hinges starting in front, attached in back; clean, unmarked text is somewhat yellowed but sturdy. Owner plate inside front board; owner signature on front endpaper; some pencilled writing on back endpapers. Few pieces of Illinois related ephemera laid in, including interesting postcard dual portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, "The Father [and] the Preserver."
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Good plus or better, light general wear. Faded and slightly cocked spine. Articles: The Expansion of Higher Education in Illinois from 1865 to 1925, Babcock; The Subscription School and the Seminary in Pioneer Days, Johnson; Kaskaskia and Vincennes: An Anniversary Enterprise, Coleman; The Death and Burial of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, son of the English novelist Charles Dickens, Alsterlund; Lafayette: On the Centenary of His Visit to Illinois, Swain; In Memoriam: Mr. Stuart Brown, Thomas; Medicine in the Illinois Country, Nelson; The Imperial Indian Department and the Occupation of the Great West, 1758-1766, Volwiler; The Last Years of the Whig Party in Illinois, 1847-1856, King; The Convergence of Lincoln and Douglas, Lynch; Hancock County Centennial, Schofield; Diary of the Overland Trail 1849 and Letters 1849-1850 of Captain David de Wolf, Cox; Jacksonville Centennial, Black.
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Good plus or better, light general wear, lightly soiled. Spine and edges darkened. Some staining to front cover, internally clean. Pages browned. Articles: The Early Courts of Chicago and Cook County, Carter; The Life and Services of Shelby M. Cullom, Converse; Some Effects of Geological History on Present Conditions in Illinois, Crook; The Methodist Episcopal Church and Reconstruction, Sweet; The Destruction of Kaskaskia by the Mississippi River, Burnham; Black Hawk's Home Country, Hauberg; The Williamson County Vendetta, Young; The Thirty-Ninth Illinois Volunteers, ( Yates Phalanx), Jenkins; Northern Illinois in the Great Whig Convention of 1840, Kelly; Southern Illinois in the Great Whig Convention of 1840, Davidson; The Great Whig Convention at Springfield, Ill., June 3-4, 1840, Jamison; Further Regarding the Destruction of a Branch of the Fox Tribe of Indians, Steward; Brief History of Seventeenth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, Campbell.
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Good plus or better, light general wear. Articles: The West and the Growth of the National Idea, Paxson; The Life and Services of Alfred Orendorff, Creighton; Some Illinois Editors I Have Known, Atkins; Negro Slavery in Illinois, Hand; The English Settlement in Edwards County, Illinois, Strawn; Grant's First March, Moore; Illinois and the Revolution in the West, 1779-1780, James; The Ninety-Sixth Illinois at Chickamauga, Partridge; The Origins and Development of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of Illinois, James; The Kensington Rune Stone, Flom; Pioneer Letters of Gershom Flagg, Buck; Archaeology of the Mississippi Valley, Moorehead.
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For the Year 1928. Twenty-ninth Annual Meeting of the Society, Springfield, Illinois, May 10-11, 1928. Springfield: Phillips Bros Print, 1928. 477pp. Plates. 9x6'', cloth. Publication Number 35. Isaac Joslin Cox, Burr Conspiracy; J.A. James, George Rogers Clark; F.I. Herriott, Conference in Deutsches Haus, Chicago, 1860; Charles P. Johnson, Presidential Election of 1860; Gottfried Koehler, Illinois Lotteries for Raising Funds for Public Health; Elbert Waller, Kaskaskia Forts. Remnant of printed slip pasted to titlepage, else VG.
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Good. 1900 and 1901. Phillips Bros. State Printing. Publications no. 4 and 6. Both are cloth, the 1900 publication has gilt text on the cover. Moderate use and shelf wear to both. Endpaper of 1900 issue has a tear. Undesignated plate on 1901 endpaper. Interiors have minor usewear and some toning, slight rippling to some of the pages. Some of the contents subjects are: Archaeological Research, Stephen A. Douglas, Wood River Masacre, Bennet-Stuart Duel, Graves of Soldiers who fell at Stillman's defeat.