Rare Books
Holdings in the Rare Books Section of the Special Collections Department at the Richard J. Daley Library include books of permanent, historic, and research interest that would be difficult to replace or that need special care. Notable collections and areas of interest include:
- Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana
- Chicago Pre-fire (1871) Imprint Collection
- Richard F. Casper Military History Collection
- H. D. Carberry Collection of Caribbean Studies
- Twentieth-Century British and American Poetry
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Collection
- Ernst Cassirer Collection
- Arkham House (Fantastic Fiction) Collection
- American and British Private Press
- Swallow Press Collection
- Black Cat Press Collection
- Albert Reese Print Collection
- Antiquarian Maps (Great Lakes Region, Russian Empire, and Western Europe)
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