Description
The signed first edition, first printing of Street Signs Chicago: Neighborhood and Other Illusions of Big-City Life by Charles Bowden, with Lew Kreinberg.
Octavo, 198pp. Black cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. A fine example, appears unread. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, $12.95 retail price.
Inscribed by Lew Kreinberg on the title page, “Get home before dark / Lew Kreinberg.”
Illustrated with photographs by Richard Younker, with a foreword by William Appleman Williams. A study of Chicago neighborhoods, urban memory, displacement, and the contested idea of community in American cities. Bowden’s second book, reportedly issued in a first printing of 1,500 copies.
