THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE

By Robert Cromie.

Introduction by Paul M. Angle.

New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., (1958).

First edition, first printing.

"First edition" statement to the copyright page.

Sixteen pages of illustrations including several photographs published here for the first time.

Robert Cromie, a newspaper reporter and journalist, draws on extensive research including first hand accounts, for this historical hour by hour narrative, with details from various areas of occurrences in the city, people and how they reacted, and with an accurate picture of how the fire started, its path, how it increased, built up, the results as it grew, and the aftermath.

Fine in polished green linen with shiny-plum titles and decorations to the spine, mauve, black and white map-illustrated end-papers with an extensive map key; in a very good dust jacket with small nicks and rubs to the shelf-edges and with reinforcing to the verso behind the upper and lower spine ends and behind the flap fold corners; original printed $5.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Octavo; 282 pages.

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