Author: CRISSEY, Forrest
Title: Tattlings of a Retired Politician: Being the Letters (Non-Partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and Former Veteran of Practical Politics, Written to His Friend and Protege Ned...
Description: Chicago, Thompson & Thomas, 1904. Hardcover. Illustrations by John T. McCutcheon. Small 8vo. Red cloth with pictorial white and black stamping. 487pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, line drawings, decorative endpapers. Very good. Spine slightly sunned and decorative pastedowns a tad rough. Early (not first) printing, the "Special Limited Political Edition." Tight and attractive copy of this humorous parody of Illinois and Chicago politics -- and signed large and bold by Crisssey on the dedication page. From the collection of Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (b. 1930). .

Keywords: Humor & Folklore Illinois & Midwest


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