Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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[CHICAGO]. STEAD, William Thomas (1849?1912). If Christ Came to Chicago. Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1894. 8vo. Frontispiece, lacking map. Publisher?s pictorial wraps (chipping along extremities, loss to spine, soiling). FIRST EDITION. Includes a modern facsimile reprint. Written during Stead?s year?long stay in Chicago following the 1893 World?s Columbian Exposition, this book rallies against gamblers and corrupt politicians in the Windy City. Famously outspoken in his crusade for social justice, W.T. Stead was repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and was rumored to be a favorite to win it when he perished aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912.