Chicago, IL: The Lakeside Press, 1919. 269pp/frontis. Fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt texton the spine, a gilt top edge to the text block with gilt text , a decoration and borders on the front board. The gilt text on the spine is quite bright and very readable and the gilt borders and decorations on the front board are also quite bright and free of tarnish. The 17th volume in the Lakeside Classic series which was released in 1917. The book reprints "The Memoirs of Christina Holmes Tillson" which was originally only circulated to her family and her close friends and describes her life in early Illinois. A tight and clean copy! . First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 006816
Title: A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois
Author: Quaife, Milo Milton
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: The Lakeside Press
Place of Publication: Chicago, IL
Date Published: 1919
Keywords: Illinois Americana
Bookseller catalogs: Americana;

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