Author: BALE, Florence Gratiot (compiler)
Title: Historic Galena, Yesterday and Today
Description: Galena, Harbin & Harbin, 1939. Paperback. Small 4to. Stiff blue pictorial wrappers. 32pp. Numerous illustrations. Very good. First edition. A tight and nice copy of this tourism booklet with an image of President U.S. Grant on the front wrapper -- published out of the very same building where Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has operated since 1994! Nice little primer on this important lead mining town in northwest Illinois, adopted hometown of Ulysses S. Grant. Also exists in a stiff orange wrapper, though no priority has been established. .

Keywords: Civil War Illinois & Midwest


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