Fine Books & Manuscripts

[LITERATURE]. A group of 4 titles, including: SINCLAIR, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Publisher’s pictorial green cloth stamped in black and white (spine a trifle bit sunned and skewed). FIRST EDITION, early issue with slightly broken type to “1” in “Published, February 1906” on copyright. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Caxton Chicago by the Book 27. –– ADAMS, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull–House. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. Illustrated. Original brick cloth gilt with pictorial cover label, top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION. Caxton Chicago by the Book 30. –– STAGG, Amos Alonzo; STOUT, Wesley Winans. Touchdown! New York, [et al]: Longmans, Green and Co., 1927. Numerous illustrations from photographs. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in black; original unclipped dust jacket (few tiny chips at ends, else fine). Provenance: University of the Pacific (bookplate). Second printing issued in the same month as the first edition. Caxton Chicago by the Book 47. –– LEVIN, Meyer. Compulsion. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Original orange cloth; original unclipped dust jacket. Later edition. Caxton Chicago by the Book 79. –– Together, 4 works in 4 volumes, all mentioned in the Caxton Club publication Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications that Shaped the City and its Image, overall very good condition.