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Omaha: Lamplighter Press, 1987. Hardcover. Small 4to. Blue cloth, dust jacket. iii, 359pp. Illustrations, map endpapers. Very good/very good. Minor jacket edgewear and abrasions. Tight, decent first edition -- ex-library, with nominal markings mostly removed.

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1929. Hardcover. Small 4to. Original blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt. 90pp. Frontispiece. Near fine. First edition -- tight, handsome -- of this gathering of comments in honor of the Wisconsin senator (1855-1925), ranging from a poem by Edgar Lee Masters and mini-bio of sculptor Jo Davidson to speeches by politicos such as Wisconsin senator John J. Blaine.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 233pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Bit of jacket edgewear and touch of light soiling. Clean, tight, decent later printing of this biography of the then-presidential candidate.

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. Hardcover. Small 4to. Red and tan cloth, dust jacket. 946pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. First edition of the second half of this portly biography of the Illinois governor and presidential candidate, by the noted Illinois journalist and presidential candidate speechwriter (1915-87). Tight, clean, attractive.

New York: Grossman Publishers, 1966. Hardcover. 4to.Maroon cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 160pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of jacket edgewear. A handsome, tight and lovely first edition.

Nashville: Aurora Publishers, Inc, 1975. Hardcover. Small 4to. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. 194pp. Fine. Lacks dust jacket. Pristine first edition of this study of the governor's years in the state capital, 1949-53. From the collection of his son, U.S. Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), with a sheet of his embossed letterhead tipped in at flyleaf.

Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1976. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth spine and blue paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. x, 370pp. Illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of mild jacket edgewear. A handsome and tight first edition of the Vermont senator's hefty journals.

New York: Park Lane Press, 1998. Hardcover. 8vo. Black and red paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 186pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. A tight, handsome first edition of this surprisingly uncommon companion to the A& E "Biography" documentary of Chicago's most notorious gangster,

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth, corner (not price-) clipped dust jacket. ix, 242pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/very good. Slight bit of minor jacket edgewear; front endpaper age toned. Tight, clean, nice first edition.

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth. xiii, 502pp. Foldout map. Very good. Some offsetting to front pastedown and flyleaf from newsprint exposure; lacks called for frontispiece. Later printing, a tight and nice copy of this mammoth study.

New York: Greenberg, 1932. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth. xiii, 307pp. Very good. Bookplate on front flyleaf. Tight, clean, attractive first edition.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 793pp. Illustrations, text endpapers. Very good/very good. Large nonauthorial gift inscription on inner flyleaf. First edition, tight and attractive.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1978. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth, dust jacket. xvii, 793pp. Illustrations, text endpapers. Very good/very good. Just a book club edition of this thick classic, but tight and quite nice.

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1937. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth. viii, 544pp. Frontispiece,map endpapers. Very good. Nonauthorial gift inscription on half-title page. Later (19th) printing of this extraordinarily popular memoir -- tight, clean.

Chicago: Kingston House, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Pale blue cloth wilt black lettering and dark blue buckram, pictorial dust jacket. 182pp. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear; bookplate on front flyleaf. A tight and attractive third printing of this reprint of the 1953 juvenile biography of the Scottish-born industrialist.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth, dust jacket. 315pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and rubbed, with large edge chips -- still, rather uncommon in the dust jacket. First edition, tight and attractive despite rough jacket. "A sympathetic, warmly written biography," notes the jacket front panel, "of the extraordinary woman who was one of Vassar's greatest teachers and a stormy petrel in the field of education."

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xii, 288pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Bookplate and circular blind-embossed stamp on front flyleaf. First edition, tight and handsome.

New York: Arno Press, 1972. Hardcover. Complete 2-volume set. Edited by his sons. 8vo. Green cloth. xxxii, 407pp, (2pp ads); viii, 438pp, (2pp ads). Frontispiece. Very good. Tight and handsome pair of this facsimile reprint of the 1887 first edition (Philadelphia: George Barrie) -- a volume in this publisher's "Medicine & Society in America" series. Even the reprint edition is uncommon.

Oklahoma City: The Robert Watchorn Charities, Ltd, 1959. Hardcover. Edited by Herbert Faulkner West. Small 4to. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. xix, 218pp. Color frontispiece, illustrations, color plate. Near fine. Second printing, tight and handsome, of this memoir by the English-born Union Oil Company executive (1858-1944) and millionaire and Abraham Lincoln buff. Laid in is a Typed Note Signed from the Porter Oil & Gas Company, 1p, 8¼" X 10 3/4", Oklahoma City, OK, 1962 September 21. Transmits a review copy of this book to a University of Wisconsin librarian.

Rockford, IL: N.p., 1875. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black blind-embossed cloth, gilt. 400pp. Frontispiece. Very good. A bit edgeworn, but quite tight and overall attractive; foxing to preliminary pages only. First edition of this rags-to-riches memoir by the founder and editor of the Rockford 8-page weekly religious newspaper, "The Golden Censer," the "fearless exponent of the principles of our Holy Christianity." Printed stick of "Abraham E. Smith, Printer and Book Binder" at upper left of front pastedown. This memoir appears to have met some success, with a third printing by 1878. Some 1875 editions in burgundy cloth list Blakely & Brown of Chicago as publishers and some don't, with no clear priority. In 1885 a new edition appeared, with the title changed to read "Zion's Watchman" instead of "Golden Censer" and "Eighteen Years' Experience" in lieu of "Seven Years' Experience." This edition too appears to have sold… Read More