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Title: Seventy-seven volumes from the Lakeside Classics series Author: Place: Chicago Publisher: Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Date: 1903-1974 Description: 77 volumes comprising the first 72 titles, plus 5 duplicate volumes. Variously illustrated with maps, portraits and facsimiles. (12mo), original green, red, or blue cloth, spines gilt-lettered, top edges gilt. First Lakeside Press Editions. Extensive collection of Lakeside Press Classics, a complete run of the first 72 titles issued, from 1903-1974, plus duplicates of five volumes. These volumes were given as gifts to friends and employees of the Lakeside Press at Christmastime. Lakeside Press is exceptionally important in American printing history, being instrumental in the development of inexpensive paperbacks and of high speed printing. Their manifesto is printed in the introduction to the first volume in this series: "The entire production [of this book] type-setting, electrotyping, binding, and even ink-making--was made possible by the complete facilities of the plant," and asserts that machine-made books are not a crime against art, because they are useful and progressive. Fittingly, the first book in the series is The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin This set includes that 1903 first book, as well as the other early books in the series, such as histories of early Chicago, captivity narratives, frontier accounts, western exploration, etc. The series has continued to this day with the 113th title published in 2015. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1903 Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Lincoln 1904 Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from A. Johnson to T. Roosevelt 1905 Fruits of Solitude by William Penn 1906 Memorable American Speeches I. The Colonial Period 1907 Memorable American Speeches II. Democracy and Nationality 1908 Memorable American Speeches III. Slavery 1909 Memorable American Speeches IV. Secession, War, Reconstruction 1910 The Autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard 1911 Reminiscences of Early Chicago 1912 Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties 1913 Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War 1914 Reminiscences of Chicago During the Great Fire 1915 Life of Black Hawk 1916 The Indian Captivity of O. M. Spencer 1917 Pictures of Illinois One Hundred Years Ago 1918 A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson 1919 The Conquest of the Illinois by George Rogers Clark 1920 Alexander Henry's Travels and Adventures in the Years 1760-1776 1921 John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788 1922 Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River by Alexander Ross 1923 The Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross 1924 The Southwestern Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike 1925 Commerce of the Prairies by Josiah Gregg 1926 Death Valley in '49 by William L. Manly 1927 Bidwell's Echoes of the Past - Steele's In Camp and Cabin 1928 Kendall's Texan Santa Fe Expedition 1929 Pattie's Personal Narrative 1930 Alexander Mackenzie's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1793 1931 Wau-Bun, The "Early Day" in the North-West by Mrs. John H. Kinzie 1932 Forty Years a Fur Trader by Charles Larpenteur 1933 Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard 1934 Kit Carson's Autobiography 1935 A True Picture of Emigration by Rebecca Burlend 1936 The Bark Covered House by William Nowlin 1937 The Border and the Buffalo by John R. Cook 1938 Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes 1939 War on the Detroit by Thomas Verchères de​ Boucherville and James Foster 1940 Army Life in Dakota by De Trobriand 1941 The Early Day of Rock Island and Davenport by J. W. Spencer and J. M. D. Burrows 1942 Six Years with the Texas Rangers by James B. Gillett 1943 Growing Up with Southern Illinois by Daniel Harmon Brush 1944 A History of Illinois, I, by Gov. Thomas Ford 1945 A History of Illinois, II, by Gov. Tho