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Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1901. Hardcover. Thick small quarto. 10 x 7.5 inches. lxxviii, 555, [1] pp, including appendix and index. Very Good. No dust jacket as issued. Publisher's navy blue satin cloth over beveled-edge boards. Gilt stamping on spine. Five black and white facsimiles of the manuscript, including frontispiece. Five black and white portrait plates, tissue guards intact. Spine color rich with brilliant gilt stamping. Some soiling to boards. Case lightly edge worn. Tips worn and bumped. Inner hinge cracked between front free endpaper and frontispiece, else binding strong and tight. Pages lightly toned. Clean and unmarked throughout. Howes B703.

Chicago: Goodspeed, Bros. & Co., 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. 837 pp. Good+. No dust jacket as issued. Three-quarter bound leather, all edges marbled. Gilt-tooled title and decorative gilt tooling on spine. Heavy rubbing to spine, spots of rubbing at corners, tips of all corner-pieces rubbed through to board. Previous owner's name written in pen on ffep. Contemporary newspaper clipping taped to ffep. Front and back hinges cracked, lower half of paste-down endpaper torn at back hinge. Pages browned. Fading and foxing evident throughout. Half-title page has been cut out. Foldout triptych at page 534 detached at fold between first and second panel. Creasing and small tears between second and third panels. "From the Earliest Time to the Present; Together with Interesting Biographical Sketches, Reminiscences, Notes, Etc."

Mountain City, Tennessee: Johnson County Historical Society, 1986. Sesquicentennial Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. Quarto. 12-1/4 x 9-1/2 inches. 511 pp. Very Good+ / No Dustjacket as issued. Red leatherette on board. Gilt-stamped debossed title, county seal, and triple panel border to front board. Gilt-stamped title to spine. Pictorial endpapers (four seasonal photos and poem to front pastedown, map to front free, blank family record to read free, blank family tree to rear pastedown). Case in Fine condition. Binding solid. Textblock square and tight. Slight foxing to leading edge of texblock. Foxing to front free endpaper and verso, title page, copyright page, and rear endpaper verso. Interior clean and unmarked with slight age toning at edges.

Indianapolis, IN: Douglas and Maguire, 1833. Second Edition, carefully revised, corrected and enlarged. Hardcover. Duodecimo. 7.25 x 4.5 inches. Good. Original light brown cloth over board. 200 pp. Cloth stained, spotted, and edge-worn. All corners soft. Tips and some edges rubbed through. Lacking spine label. Turn-in partially detached at foredge of front board. Binding solid. Hinges loose but secure. Damp stains to endpapers. Small blue pencil markings to front pastedown. One-inch closed tear to foredge of front pastedown with paper detached from board. Two half-inch diameter unidentifiable stamps to front free endpaper. One-inch rough diameter missing material in front free endpaper, as if a third stamp had been excised. Creasing to front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked with significant foxing throughout. Howes S230. Quite scarce.

Indianapolis: Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 9.25 x 12 inches. ix, 149 pp. Indexed. Fine / Very Good plus. Burgundy cloth over board. Gilt stamping to spine. Teal endpapers. Profusely illustrated with photographs in b/w and color. Color plates. Contemporary photography by Marsh Davis. Signed on front endpaper by all three authors and the photographer. Includes catalog of buildings, with architects and ownership history, along Indianapolis's landmark Meridian Street from 40th street to Westfield Boulevard. Index of addresses. Binding sound. Tips sharp. Interior unmarked. Unclipped illustrated dustjacket. Back panel has slight edgewear, some creasing along top with two small closed tears, and rubbing near head of spine. Now in archival sleeve.

Columbus, Ohio: Jonathan Phillips, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 8-3/4 x 5-1/2 inches. Condition: Good. Contemporary full leather. Red morocco title label stamped in gilt on spine. Crude gilt-ruled panels on spine. Top edge stained. 704pp, including index. Leather shows overall edgewear, rubbing, and scuffing. Rubbed through to board at three tips. Leather hinges rubbed, but not through. ½-inch closed tears down both hinges at head of spine with no material loss. Leather of spine dry, cracking, and very edgeworn. Text block square. Early ink spot on text block bottom edge. Front and rear endpapers cracked at hinges, but holding. Tears with loss to rfep. Age toning and foxing throughout. Text clear and legible. Early owner's initials on ffep and signature on title page verso page, with bleed-through, else pages unmarked. "Messages of the Presidents of the United States, from the Formation of the General Government, Down to the Close of the Administration of President Van Buren; Concluding… Read More

Norwich, CT: Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1884. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.75 x 6.5 inches. Two volumes: xiii, [2], 646; xiv, [2], 724 pp. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Bound in full natural calf on board. Four raised bands with red & black title panels. Gilt titles and ruling on spine. Marbled edges. Fold-out map in back of Volume I. Both volumes have frontis with tissue guards, plus 11 steel portraits with TGs complete. Extensive edge wear, rubbing, scraping, scuffing and fraying to boards. Tips rubbed through. Damage to Volume II front endpapers. Creasing to fold-out map. Volume II rear hinge cracked through 6 inches from heel up, albeit cords holding. Previous clumsy masking tape "repair" to rear inner hinge.