[Rarebooks] FS - Bibliographies of Kentucky literature

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FS - Bibliographies of Kentucky literature

Jillson, Willard Rouse
RARE KENTUCKY BOOKS 1776-1926
"A Check and Finding List of Scarce, Fugitive, Curious, and 
Interesting Books and Pamphlets with Annotations and Prices Current Appended."
Louisville, KY, The Standard Printing Co., 1938, 8vo, 199pp.

 From the 1st edition of 350: this copy lacks an individual number in 
the space provided, but other known examples have no individual 
number either. Presumed that no individual numbering occurred. 
Contains 26 plates which are title page facsimiles. Book entries are 
chronologic and grouped by publishing date. Each entry has brief 
bibliographic information, the estimated 1937-1938 market value, and 
the authors brief annotations about the book. Foreword and List of 
Illustrations. Includes a "finding list" that references a given book 
to the specific Kentucky library (or the LOC) where it can be found: 
the majority of the books are referenced. Bibliographic references.

Indexed by author name. Catalog of Standard Printing publications at 
the back: that alone is interesting reading for the extensive list of 
printed Kentuckyana. Bound in heavy tan linen with title and 
illustration to the cover in brown. Spine tail bumped, slight pull to 
spine head, slight bump to one tail corner, slightest foxing to title 
page and one front endpaper. No DJ, assumed as-issued. Quite clean 
and a very nice copy. About VG+. Stock #975c. $150.00 USD


Coleman, J. Winston Jr.
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF KENTUCKY HISTORY
Lexington, KY, ,The University Of Kentucky Press, 1949,  8vo, 516pp

Bibliography of  Kentucky history. Lists 3571 titles, sequentially 
numbered, and nearly all annotated. Covers 87 topic areas that 
include: Agriculture and Livestock; Anthologies; Anthropology and 
Archaeology; Architecture, Houses, and Buildings; Atlases, 
Gazetteers, and Indexes; Biographies; Biographical Encyclopedias; 
Biographical Sketches; Boone, Daniel; Business and Industries; Church 
and Religious History; Church and Religious Controversies; Civil War; 
Clay, Henry; Colonial and Pre-Statehood History; Community History; 
County Histories; Court and Court Struggles; Disasters, Floods, 
Plagues, and Epidemics; Doctors and Surgeons; Early Explorations and 
Settlements; Education and Pedagogy; Feuds, Trials, and Tragedies; 
Folklore; Fraternal and Secret Organizations; Frontier, Pioneer, and 
Backwoods History; Genealogy; Geography; Geology; Guidebooks, 
Inventories, and Calendars; Historical Fiction and Legendary Stories; 
Historical Sketches, Annals, and Chronicles; Horses and Horse Racing; 
Indians and Border Warfare; Journals and Narratives; Lawlessness, 
Crime, and Conspiracy; Letters, Papers, and Writings; Mammoth Cave 
and the Cave Region; Medicine and Medical History; Mexican War; 
Military Expeditions, Battles, and Campaigns; Mountains and Mountain 
Life; Municipal History; Music and Songs, Natural Resources; 
Navigation and Rivers; Personal Controversies; Political History and 
Intrigue; Press and Printing; Public Celebrations and Memorials; 
Railroads; Regional and Sectional History; Religious Orders and 
Societies; Reminiscences, Recollections, and Memoirs; Revolutionary 
War; Roads and Highways; Schools and Academies; Slavery, 
Anti-Slavery, and Abolition; Social Life and Customs; Societies, 
Clubs, and Organizations; Spanish-American War; Speeches, Addresses, 
and Debates; Sports; State Histories; State institutions; Statute 
Laws; Taxation; Transportation; Travel and Travel Accounts; 
Universities and Colleges; War of 1812; Wild Life and Recreation; World War I.

Preface by the Author. Includes Appendix of Additional Holdings of 
the University of Kentucky Library. Indexed by individual author and 
corresponding title(s) number. Grey-brown cloth on boards.

Front endpaper warmly SIGNED by the author "With sincere regards, / 
J. Winston Coleman, Jr.". Front endpaper has the ownership blind 
stamp of Jack McKim Vorhies, noted numismatic author on obsolete bank notes.

Short closed tear to tail of title page. A bit of random soil to the 
covers, spine ends bumped. Lacks a DJ. Internally quite clean and 
nice. A bit better than VG. Stock #980c $175.00 USD


Townsend, John Wilson
KENTUCKY IN AMERICAN LETTERS 1784-1912, Volume 1 and Volume 2
Berea, KY, ,Kentucke Imprints, 1974{1913]

Lists Kentucky authors with brief biographical information on each. 
Bios emphasizes their contributions to Kentucky's literature and most 
bios contain brief, but specific information on relevant 
bibliographies and biographies of the author. Each entry includes 
brief excerpts of the author's work. Covers the work of approximately 
202 authors active between 1784 and 1912. Includes John Filson, John 
J. Audubon, Zachary Taylor, Jefferson Davis, and most of the great 
contributors to the literature of Kentucky, from frontier times to statehood.

The author was one of the great bookmen of Kentucky and assembled 
these books from that perspective as much as a historical one. The 
Introduction by James Lane Allen does much to explain the author's 
contributions to bibliography and the exposition of Kentucky's authors.

In textured, leatherette-like cloth on boards. Gilt title to spine. 
No DJ, believed as-issued. These are the 1974 reprints of the 1913 
limiteds published by The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Would be 
Fine except faintly musty. Absolutely clean, crisp, unbumped NF 
copies. Stock #976c and 977c $50.00 USD for the pair.

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