[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 an d 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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