ARKANSAS IMPRINTS 1821-1876.
New York. 1947. xx, 236pp. Original cloth, spine gilt. Front hinge a bit loose, corners bumped, boards slightly scuffed. Light tanning. Good plus. Standard bibliography on Arkansas printing to the end of Reconstruction.
New York. 1947. xx, 236pp. Original cloth, spine gilt. Front hinge a bit loose, corners bumped, boards slightly scuffed. Light tanning. Good plus. Standard bibliography on Arkansas printing to the end of Reconstruction.
Washington, D.C. Statute Law Book Co., 1896. iv,27pp. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and red morocco, gilt leather labels. Spine perished, hinges cracked. Ex- library, with ink stamps on front flyleaf and titlepage. A few ink stains, otherwise clean. Good. One of a hand-numbered edition of fifty copies. A later Washington, D.C......
Washington, D.C. Statute Law Book Co., 1896. iii,98pp. Contemporary three-quarter sheep and red morocco, gilt leather labels. Hinges cracked, corners worn. Ex-library, with ink stamp on titlepage. Lightly tanned, otherwise clean. Good. One of a hand-numbered edition of fifty copies. A later Washington, D.C. printing of the state laws of.....
Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1861. viii,92pp. Antique style half calf and marbled boards. Old library stamp on half title. Light foxing, very good. An account of the laws passed at a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly, which took place from Nov. 4 to Nov. 18, 1861. This.....
Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1862. 16pp. Antique style half calf and marbled boards. Old library stamps on title. Scattered minor soiling otherwise very good. An account of laws passed at a special session of the Arkansas General Assembly that took place in March, 1862. It contains several laws and.....
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, Publishers, [1864]. 71,[1]pp. 16mo. Original pictorial salmon-colored wrappers. Wrappers slightly stained, ink number on front wrapper, wrappers a bit chipped around the edges. Internally clean. Very good. Second edition, first published the year before. The first few pages recount the by-then legendary story of the.....
Arkadelphia or Little Rock. 1853-1859. Four volumes. Uniform 20th-century tan buckram, leather spine labels. Minor shelf wear and removed shelf marks. Institutional ink or blind stamps on titlepages and some leaves. Good. An interesting consecutive run of Arkansas session laws from the state's general assembly, covering the ninth through twelfth.....
Little Rock. [ 1889]. 59pp. Dbd., retaining original front wrapper. Very good. Cases between Black & Brother and J. Loewenbery (plaintiffs) and Arkansas and Louisiana Railway Company (defendant) concerning tariffs and extra expenses made on shipments carried by the railway.
Little Rock. [ 1890]. 14pp. Dbd., retaining original front wrapper. A sound copy. An early Arkansas legal petition questioning the constitutionality of an act providing for a system of railroad incorporation.
Little Rock: Albert Pike, 1836. 52pp. Antique style half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Top portion of titlepage and first leaf repaired with later paper. Some light foxing. Very good. The proceedings of the first Arkansas constitutional convention, which met during the month of January, 1836. There was some.....
Little Rock: Johnson & Yerkes, 1861. 128pp. Half calf and marbled boards, leather label, in antique style. Contemporary notation on titlepage, minor scattered foxing. Very good. Ordinances passed by the Arkansas convention which voted to secede from the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War. The first ordinance printed.....
[St. Louis. nd, ca. 1893]. 30pp. Original printed wrappers. Some light dampstaining in margins. Still very good. This promotional tract for the southern states was issued by the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. Sets forth the agricultural, mineral, manufacturing and commercial advantages of the region, but with.....
Washington, Ar. Aug. 15, 1862. Small broadside, approximately 11 x 8 inches. Previously folded. Two very short separation along old folds at right edge. Faint dampstaining in lower left corner, light tanning. Very good. An extremely scarce Confederate broadside, calling for the mobilization of the First Texas Partisan Rangers and.....
Little Rock: J.D. Butler, Print. 1861. One bond, approximately 3 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, including nine of ten coupons (each approximately 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches). Printed in red and yellow and stamped in black, with number "67393" inscribed in ink on certificate and each coupon, and signed twice.....
Little Rock: J.D. Butler, Print. 1861. One bond, approximately 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches in total size (including margins), comprising certificate (approximately 3 1/4 x 8 inches, not including margins) and nine of ten attached coupons (each approximately 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches). Printed in red and blue and.....
Hot Springs, Ar. Charles Cutter, [ 1899]. 59,[5]pp., profusely illustrated. Oblong 12mo. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, some small tears along the edges and spine. Overall very good. A scarce illustrated guide to the popular resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Local bath houses and hotels are the main.....
St. Louis: Slawson Printing Co., 1893. [8],66,[6]pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled; rear cover torn, separating from spine. Minor soiling internally. Good plus. "35th Edition. 457th Thousand." A scarce illustrated guide to the popular resort town of Hot Springs, Arkansas. Local bath houses and hotels are the main feature.....
Cincinnati. 1867. 551pp. plus folding map. Frontispiece portrait. Original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt. Spine ends and corners a bit frayed. Front joint split but holding well. Bookplate on front pastedown, minor foxing. Very good. A sympathetic account of Shelby's cavalry, which was active in almost every campaign of the Civil.....
New York. 1844. 168pp. printed in double-column format. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers stained and soiled, spine chipped. Internally, largely clean and very good. In a folding, cloth backed, paper chemise. The first American edition, abridged. Featherstonhaugh, a geologist of some repute, left Baltimore in August 1834, travelling through the Virginia.....
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. 349pp. including illustrations and folding map. Frontis. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Corners bumped, a bit of wear to head and toe of spine. Very good, untrimmed and partially unopened. A history of the exploration and development of the trans- Mississippi West, including trade.....
Leide: Pierre Van Der Aa, 1731. Two volumes bound in one, continuously signed and paginated. [26],290; [291]-582pp., plus a total of nine folding plates and a folding map. Titlepages printed in red and black. Small octavo. Contemporary calf, sympathetically rebacked in matching modern calf, tooled in blind and gilt, raised.....
Paris: Geofroi Nyon, 1711-1712. [18],281,[3],249,[11]pp. Second part with separate titlepage. 12mo. Contemporary calf, ornate gilt spine, raised bands, gilt maroon morocco label. Crossed-out contemporary ownership signature on titlepage and verso of front free endpaper, old institutional stamp also on titlepage. Later manuscript note tipped in at front. Overall internally clean.....
Philadelphia. 1847. 336pp. plus six plates. Original publisher's black cloth, stamped in blind, featuring a horn spilling items such as players' cards, chips, a clock, and weapons, surrounded by a floral border; rebacked in red calf, gilt leather label. Corners scuffed. Mild foxing and toning, scattered dampstaining. Good plus. The.....
New York. 1844. [4],74pp. plus three maps (two of them folding). Original printed wrappers. Fore-edge of front wrapper and spine ends chipped. Light foxing, maps somewhat tanned. About very good. "Observation tour in behalf of the Episcopal Church from Arkansas to Ft. Leavenworth. The report had previously appeared in June.....
Las Animas: Bent County Democrat, 1960. [4],88,[4]pp. including twenty-one illustrations. Original printed wrappers. Spine and top edge of back wrap slightly sunned, corners slightly curled. Very good. A history of the early settlers of the upper Arkansas valley. Many portrait photographs.