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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.

1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin    1903
2. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Lincoln    1904
3. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from A. Johnson to T. Roosevelt    1905
4. Fruits of Solitude by William Penn    1906
5. Memorable American Speeches I. The Colonial Period    1907
6. Memorable American Speeches II. Democracy and Nationality    1908
7. Memorable American Speeches III. Slavery    1909
8. Memorable American Speeches IV. Secession, War, Reconstruction    1910
9. The Autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard    1911
10. Reminiscences of Early Chicago    1912
11. Reminiscences of Chicago During the Forties and Fifties    1913
12. Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War    1914
13. Reminiscences of Chicago During the Great Fire    1915
14. Life of Black Hawk    1916
15. The Indian Captivity of O. M. Spencer    1917
16. Pictures of Illinois One Hundred Years Ago    1918
17. A Woman's Story of Pioneer Illinois by Christiana Holmes Tillson    1919
18. The Conquest of the Illinois by George Rogers Clark    1920
19. Alexander Henry's Travels and Adventures in the Years 1760-1776    1921
20. John Long's Voyages and Travels in the Years 1768-1788    1922
21. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River by Alexander Ross    1923
22. The Fur Hunters of the Far West by Alexander Ross    1924
23. The Southwestern Expedition of Zebulon M. Pike    1925
24. Commerce of the Prairies by Josiah Gregg    1926
25. Death Valley in '49 by William L. Manly    1927
26. Bidwell's Echoes of the Past - Steele's In Camp and Cabin    1928
27. Kendall's Texan Santa Fe Expedition    1929
28. Pattie's Personal Narrative    1930
29. Alexander Mackenzie's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1793    1931
30. Wau-Bun, The "Early Day" in the North-West by Mrs. John H. Kinzie    1932
31. Forty Years a Fur Trader by Charles Larpenteur    1933
32. Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard    1934
33. Kit Carson's Autobiography    1935
34. A True Picture of Emigration by Rebecca Burlend    1936
35. The Bark Covered House by William Nowlin    1937
36. The Border and the Buffalo by John R. Cook    1938
37. Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes    1939
38. War on the Detroit by Thomas Verchères de​ Boucherville and James Foster    1940
39. Army Life in Dakota by De Trobriand    1941
40. The Early Day of Rock Island and Davenport by J. W. Spencer and J. M. D. Burrows    1942
41. Six Years with the Texas Rangers by James B. Gillett    1943
42. Growing Up with Southern Illinois by Daniel Harmon Brush    1944
43. A History of Illinois, I, by Gov. Thomas Ford    1945
44. A History of Illinois, II, by Gov. Thomas Ford    1946
45. The Western Country in the 17th Century by Lamothe Cadillac and Pierre Liette    1947
46. Across the Plains in Forty-nine by Reuben Cole Shaw    1948
47. Pictures of Gold Rush California    1949
48. Absaraka, Home of the Crows by Mrs. Margaret I. Carrington    1950
49. The Truth about Geronimo by Britton Davis    1951
50. My Life on the Plains by General George A. Custer    1952
51. Three Years Among the Indians and Mexicans by General Thomas James    1953
52. A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America by Gabriel Franchère    1954
53. War-Path and Bivouac by John F. Finerty    1955
54. Milford's Memoir by Louis Leclerc de Milford    1956
55. Uncle Dick Wootton by Howard Louis Conard    1957
56. The Siege of Detroit in 1763    1958
57. Among the Indians by Henry A. Boller    1959
58. Hardtack and Coffee by John D. Billings    1960
59. Outlines from the Outpost by John Esten Cooke    1961
60. Colorado Volunteers in New Mexico, 1862 by Ovando J. Hollister    1962
61. Private Smith's Journal    1963
62. Two Views of Gettysburg by Sir. A. J. L. Fremantle and Frank Haskell    1964
63. Dakota War Whoop by Harriet E. Bishop McConkey    1965
64. Honolulu by Laura Fish Judd    1966
65. Three Years in the Klondike by Jeremiah Lynch    1967
66. Two Years' Residence on the English Prairie of Illinois by John Woods    1968
67. John D. Young and the Colorado Gold Rush    1969
68. My Experiences in the West by John S. Collins    1970
69. Narratives of Colonial America, 1704-1765    1971
70. Pioneers by Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865    1972
71. Excursion Through America by Nicolaus Mohr    1973
72. A Frenchman in Lincoln's America, Volume I, by Ernest Duvergier de Hauranne    1974

The duplicates include the 1913 second printing of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, as well as Numbers 26, 35, 36, & 60.