DONIPHAN COUNTY, KANSAS HISTORY AND DIRECTORY, 1868-9...[spine title
by [Kansas]
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
[Wathena: Smith, Vaughan & Co., Publishers, 1868. [2],xi-xlviii,[2],349pp. Lacking pp. i-viii and titlepage. Large octavo. Original cloth, rebacked at an early date with portion of original backstrip laid down. Cloth rumpled, stained and worn. Rear joint cracked, front board nearly detached. Contents foxed and somewhat dampstained. Fair. A scarce directory, the NUC locating only three copies (CtY, PPL, KH1) and commenting, "No more published?" Noted in the preface as the "first History and Directory of Doniphan County, Kansas." Prints the state constitution, the inaugural address of Abraham Lincoln, a table of distances from Washington to major towns and cities, voting statistics for the presidential election of 1864, and "Doniphan County Soldiers' Register" listing all the county's men who fought in the Civil War, with many figures and much information regarding the county, state, and country. Contains numerous advertisements for merchants and industries.
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WRCAM14655
- Title
- DONIPHAN COUNTY, KANSAS HISTORY AND DIRECTORY, 1868-9...[spine title
- Author
- [Kansas]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smith, Vaughan & Co., Publishers
- Place of Publication
- [Wathena
- Date Published
- 1868
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...