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[LAKESIDE PRESS CLASSICS]. A group of 5 “green” volumes. Including: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 1903. THE FIRST PUBLICATION IN THE SERIES. –– Memorable American Speeches: III. Slavery. Edited by John Vance Cheney. 1909. –– ROSS, Alexander. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 1923. Folding map. –– ROSS, Alexander. The Fur Hunters of the Far West. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 1924. –– The Southwestern Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 1925. –– Together, 5 works in 5 volumes, all 8vo, all published in Chicago at the Lakeside Press by R. R. Donnelley & Sons, all in the original green cloth gilt, condition generally near fine with only a trifle bit of rubbing at spine ends of first two volumes. One of the longest running publication without interruption, “the Lakeside Classics were intended in part to prove that high–quality printing could be done on commercial presses” (Coventry, “The Lakeside Classics”, Caxton Chicago by the Book, pp. 62–63). Caxton Chicago by the Book 24.