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Click on Image to expandQuaife, Milo Milton:  Life of Black Hawk. First thus, Published by: The Lakeside Press in Chicago: 1916.  Good in dark green cloth covered boards with a gilt seal and borders to the front board and with gilt text on the spine with minor light rubbing the the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and with a prior owner's name on the first free end page. Unfortunately, there is a faint dampness stain throughout the text block at the upper right corner of each page which does not impact on any of the text. (This stain is restricted to the margins of each page.) The gilt decorations and text on the spine and front board are clear and bright. The fold-out map following page 32 is present and shows minor washboarding from the dampness. The 14th Lakeside Classic issued at Christmas time of 1916. TB22069  $225.00

Quaife, Milo Milton:  Pictures of Gold Rush California. First thus, Published by: The Lakeside Press in Chicago: 1949.  Very good in red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine and gilt decorations on the front board as well as a gilt top edge to the text block. The spine is slightly faded and the gilt text stamping is somewhat tarnished. A Lakeside Classic issued in 1949. A collection of contemporary accounts which highlight the perils of overland travel to the gold fields of California. TB09015  $30.00

Quaife, Milo Milton:  Pictures of Illinois One Hundred Years Ago. First thus, Published by: The Lakeside Press in Chicago: 1918.  Very near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and with a gilt top edge to the text block. The gilt text stamping on the spine is bright and clean. The 16th volume in the Lakeside Classic series which was released at Christmastime in 1917. It provides three eye-witness accounts of the early history of Illinois. 186 pages including an index, appendix, text and illustrated with a frontispiece engraving. TB21689  $375.00

Click on Image to expandQuaife, Milo Milton:  The Southwestern Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike. First thus, Published by: The Lakeside Press in Chicago: 1925.  Near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and text with only a hint of rubbing to the head and heel of the spine and with the gilt stamping on the spine and front board is clear, bright and free of tarnish. The fold-out map is in place before page 3 and is in fine condition. The 23rd volume in the Lakeside Classic series of 1925. First published in 1810 by C. & A. Conrad & Co of Philadelphia. Zebulon Pike's narration of the expedition he lead through the southwestern parts of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806-1807. TB21934  $125.00

Click on Image to expandQuaife, Milo Milton:  A True Picture of Emigration. First thus, Published by: The Lakeside Press in Chicago: 1936.  Very good+ in decorated red cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge to the text block and gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. The fore edge of the text block and the end sheets are spotted with foxing. The gilt text on the spine remains only slightly tarnished. A Lakeside Classic release of 1936. With the fold-out map intact following page 42 in fine condition. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Laid in is a compliments of the season card from Herbert P. Zimmerman, Vice President. Originally published anonymously in England in 1848 as a pamphlet it describes the life of a woman and her family who left England in 1831 to settle in "the wilds of western Illinois." TB21806  $50.00

Click on Image to expandQuaife, Milo Milton:  A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois. First thus, Published by: The Lakeside Press in Chicago: 1919.  Near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine, a gilt top edge to the text block with gilt text and decoration and borders on the front board. With only very light rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. The gilt text on the spine is quite bright and very readable and the gilt borders and decorations on the front board are also quite bright and free of tarnish. The 17th volume in the Lakeside Classic series which was released in 1917. The book reprints "The Memoirs of Christina Holmes Tillson" which was originally only circulated to her family and her close friends and describes her life in early Illinois. A very handsome copy! TB22121  $425.00

Key to abbreviations used:
CP = Copyright Page F = Fine o/w = otherwise
DJ = Dust Jacket NF = Near Fine w/ = with
EP = End Paper VG = Very Good

lt = light
FEP = Free End Paper G = Good sm = small
TP = Title Page FR = Fair PC = Price Clipped

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