Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. Hardcover. Small 4to. Dark yellow cloth spine with brown lettering and light yellow paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xiv, 279pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Faint spotting to page edges. A tight, quite attractive first edition. Amusingly, Tom Hollatz -- Chicago crime reporter, John Dillinger scholar and author of "Gangster Holidays: The Lore and Legends of the Bad Guys" (1987) -- pens huge and bold in black fineline on front flyleaf "Tom Hollatz / will haunt / you!" to encourage return from those to whom he loaned the book.

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Bookseller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45084
Title: Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893
Author: GILBERT, James
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0226293173
ISBN 13: 9780226293172
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1991
Bookseller catalogs: Books; Chicago;

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts accepts most major credit cards and PayPal. Checks are welcome. Institutions will be accommodated as their procedures require. Every effort has been made to describe each book and any defects accurately. If an item proves unsatisfactory for any reason, it may be returned within seven days. We would appreciate a courtesy call if an item is being returned. Member ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been serving book lovers, collectors and institutions since 1991. Our inventory of quality out-of-print books spans 50 subjects, while the extensive autograph holdings have a decidedly historical bent, reflecting personages from every field of human endeavor.

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