Description
Currey, J. Seymour. The Story of Old Fort Dearborn, with Eleven Illustrations. Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1912. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 173. Small 8vo. Publisher’s ribbed maroon cloth over boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front board, untrimmed page edges. Black-and-white frontispiece of General Henry Dearborn, accompanied with its original, captioned, tissue-guard, and twelve additional plates of illustrations, maps, facsimiles, all equally accompanied with their original, captioned, tissue-guards. Lightest bumping and rubbing to the spine ends, neat period ink inscription (signed, Herbert Staples in the year 1925) to the ffep, else, text-block without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages, and firm, sound binding; very good+, to, near fine. Hardcover. (#4611) $45.00
