[ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS]. A group of 17 works, including:

MCADAMS, Benton. Rebels at Rock Island. DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000. Publisher's red cloth; dust jacket. -- MEESE, William A. Early Rock Island. Moline, IL: Press of DeSaulners & Co., 1905. Publisher's green cloth gilt. -- TILLINGHAST, Benjamin Franklin (1849-1937). Rock Island Arsenal: In Peace and In War. Chicago: The Henry O. Shepard Company, 1898. Publisher's green cloth gilt. -- TWEET, Ronald. A History of the Rock Island District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 1866-1983. Rock Island: U.S. Army Engineer District, 1984. Publisher's pictorial wraps. -- WICKSTROM, George W. The Town Crier. Rock Island: The J.W. Potter Company, 1948. Publisher's red cloth gilt. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. -- A History of Rock Island and Rock Island Arsenal from Earliest Times to 1954. Rock Island: U.S. Army Rock Island Arsenal, [n.d.]. 4 volumes. Publisher's pictorial wraps. -- War's Greatest Workshop: Rock Island Arsenal. [Rock Island]: Arsenal Publishing Co., 1922. Contemporary half calf. -- And 10 others. Together, 17 works in 20 volumes, various 8vo and 4to sizes, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Dudley Bell Priester (1923-2017), Mississippi River collector and bibliographer (sold Bloomsbury, 19 November 2009, lot 110). Complete list available upon request.

Property from the Collection of Perry B. Hansen