The Choctaw of Bayou Lacomb St. Tammany Parish Louisiana - Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 48 by David I. Bushnell, Jr - 1909

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1909. 1st Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, black cloth boards three-quarter bound in leather with gilt and bands on spine. Exterior shows spotting along with edge and corner bumps/wear, rear board shows fade spot along top and left edges. All three sides of the exterior page block are also marbled. Internal binding is good and text pages are tight, no hinge issues. Beautiful marbled end pages and pastedowns and front and rear are free of any handwriting or bookplates. This volume contains 37 pages of text and 22 pages of plate photographs. About 50% of the pages are blank in this was likely done for spacing purposes for the deluxe binding. Pages are toned due to age and foxing is present though mainly to the blank pages. No signatures or bookplates, no library markings. The title page shows very faint evidence of something written along the top edge, it appears to have been erased but you can still just make out faint residue. Uncommon to find in this high-end style original binding.