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Lot 1 Title: Biographical and Pictorial History of Arkansas, Vol. 1 Author: Hallum, John Description: Spine strip has red title block and black block for author's name. 581pp; plates with b/w portraits throughout. Heading: Place Published: Albany Publisher: Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers. Date Published: 1887 first edition Binding: Full Leather

Lot 2 Title: Rebel Invasion of Missouri and Kansas, and the Campaign of the Army of the Border, Against General Sterling Price, In October and November, 1864. Author: Hinton, Richard Description: Three quarter red leather, marbled paper over boards, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and sporting design on the spine. 351pp. Frontis portrait of General Curtis, several portraits and maps throughout. This early history of the rebel invasion of Missouri and Kansas covers General Price crossing the Arkansas, the Battle of Pilot Knob, movements in the Department of Kansas and the Proclamation of Martial Law, the Battle of Lexington, Little Blue and Westport, the march of the Rosecrans' cavalry from Jefferson City to Independence, Fort Scott during the invasion, etc. Heading: Place Published: Chicago Publisher: Church & Goodman, 53 LaSalle Street, Leavenworth, Kansas: T. W. Marshall Date Published: 1865 Edition: First Binding: Hardcover

Lot 3 Title: The Encyclopedia of the New West, containing fully authenticated information of the Agricultural, Mercantile, Commercial, Manufacturing, Mining and Grazing Industries, and Representing the Character, Development, Resources and Present Condition of Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Indian Territory. Also Biographical Sketches of their Representative Men and Women. Author: Speer, William S. Description: Bound in full leather. Decorative gold stamping and lettering on the cover and spine. Page edges gilt. 611 +269 + 77 + 38 + 13 pages. Sections for each state are separately paginated. According to the index, there are 382 biographies for Texas, about 150 for Arkansas, about 60 for Colorado, nearly 20 for New Mexico and 7 for the Indian Territory. There are full page steel plate engravings (portraits) with facsimile autographs for many hundreds of the people, each with a tissue paper guard. Book measures 9 x 12 inches. Oversized and heavy. Heading: Place Published: Marshall, Texas Publisher: United States Biographical Publishing Company, Hodge and Jennings Bros., Proprietors Date Published: 1881 Edition: First Binding: Oversized Hardcover

Lot 4 Title: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas Description: 981 pp., dark brown leather boards w/gilt lettering on the spine & front cover, front cover embossed w/border and w/designs in the corners of the border, all edges gilt. The book contains a condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the same, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties named herein, and numerous biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. The counties are: Greene, Clay, Fulton, Craighead, Randolph, Mississippi, Poinsett, Independence, Sharp, Lawrence, Jackson and Izard. The book contains portraits of Elixha Baxter, W. Cate, S. Semmes, J. Lindsay, Capt. D. Matthews, J. Abernethy, J. Rutherford, W. Harrison, D. Montgomery, T. Musgrave, F. McGavock, V. Cook. Lt. E. Ayres, and many others. This is a Very HEAVY Book. The book size is 11.125 by 9.5 by 3.0. Heading: Place Published: Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis Publisher: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Date Published: 1889 Edition: First Binding: Oversized Hardcover

Lot 5 Title: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas Description: 820 pp., black leather boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, front cover embossed with border with designs in the corners of the border, all edges gilt. This book contains a condensed history of the State, a number of Biographies of Distinguished Citizens of same, A brief descriptive history of each of the Counties named herein, and numerous Biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. This is a very heavy book measuring 11 in. X 9.5 in. X 2.25 in. Heading: Place Published: Chicago, Nashville and St. Louis Publisher: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Date Published: 1890 Edition: First Binding: Oversized Hardcover

Lot 6 Title: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas Description: 497 pp., maroon leather boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, front cover embossed with border with designs in the corners of the border, all edges gilt. This book contains a condensed history of the State, a number of Biographies of Distinguished Citizens of same, A brief descriptive history of each of the Counties named herein, and numerous Biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. This is a very heavy book measuring 11 in. X 9.5 in. X 2 in. Heading: Place Published: Chicago and Nashville Publisher: The Southern Publishing Company Date Published: 1891 Edition: First Binding: Oversized Hardcover

Lot 7 Title: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Springs Counties Arkansas Description: 811 pp., maroon leather boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, front cover embossed with border with designs in the corners of the border, all edges gilt. This book contains a condensed history of the State, a number of Biographies of Distinguished Citizens of same, A brief descriptive history of each of the Counties named herein, and numerous Biographical sketches of the prominent citizens of such counties. This is a very heavy book measuring 11 in. X 10 in. X 2.75 in. Heading: Place Published: Chicago, Nashville and Saint Louis Publisher: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Date Published: 1889 Edition: First Binding: Oversized Hardcover

Lot 8 Title: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin and Sebastian Counties Arkansas Description: 1382 pp., Black leather boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. This book contains information from the earliest time to the present (1889), including a department devoted to the preservation of sundry personal, business, professional and private records; besides a valuable fund of notes, original observations, etc. This is a very heavy book measuring 8 in. X 10.5 in. X 4.5 in. Heading: Place Published: Chicago Publisher: The Goodspeed Publishing Co. Date Published: 1889 Edition: First Binding: Oversized Hardcover


Lot 9 Title: A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region Description: 787 pp., Maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. This book is a condensed general history, a brief descriptive history of each county, and numerous biographical sketches of prominent citizens of such counties (The Ozark Region of Arkansas). This is a very heavy book measuring 8.5 in. X 11.5 in. X 3 in. Heading: Place Published: Chicago Publisher: Goodspeed Brothers, Publishers. Date Published: 1894 Edition: First Binding: Oversized Hardcover

Lot 10 Title: Around the World with General Grant: A Narrative of the Visit of General U. S, Grant, Ex-President of the United States, to Various Countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa in 1877, 1878, 1879. To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on Questions Connected with American Politics and History. Author: Young, John Russell Description: Three quarter brown morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt lettering and sporting design on the spine. Vol. 1 & 2 - 631pp with 800 illus. This set came from the library of Col. V. Y. Cook. Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: The American News Company Date Published: 1879 Edition: First Binding: Hard Cover


Lot 11 Lot of 2. List of Field Officers, Regiments, and Battalions in the Confederate States Army, 1861-1865, 8 vo, (Each contains two publications issued as one, but paginated separately). The first copy is a leather bound authors proof presented to Col. V. Y. Cook, 222pp total, with no publication information. The second copy is by Claud Estes and is a 1912 first edition cloth hardcover copy with the original paper label on the front board. 213pp total, Published by the J. W. Burke Company, Macon, GA, (Ex-Library Copy). A rare pair, indispensable for research on the Confederate States army


Lot 12 Title: Shelby and His Men: or the War in the West Author: Edwards, John N. Description: 551pp. 8vo. Three quarter black leather, marbled paper over boards with gilt lettering and design on the spine. Fold out map exhibiting the marches and engagements of ""Shelby's Cavalry"" During the Confederate War. Heading: Place Published: Cincinnati Publisher: Miami Printing & Publishing Co. Date Published: 1867 Edition: First Binding: Hardcover


Lot 13 Title: From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America Author: Longstreet, James Description: 698pp. 8vo. Red cloth with beautiful gold gilt front board and spine. Heading: Place Published: Philadelphia Publisher: L. B. Lippincott Company Date Published: 1896 Edition: First Binding: Hardcover


Lot 14 Title: With the Light Guns in '61-'65: Reminiscences of Eleven Arkansas, Missouri and Texas Light Batteries, in the Civil War Author: Woodruff, William Edward Description: 115 pp. portrait frontis of 1st Lieut. Omer R. Weaver. Original decorated red cloth. Good study of Confederate artillery in the Trans-Mississippi. Heading: Place Published: Little Rock, Arkansas Publisher: Central Printing Company Date Published: 1903 Edition: First Binding: Hardcover

Lot 15 Title: A History of the Henry County Commands Which Served in the Confederate States Army, Including Rosters of the Various Companies Enlisted in Henry County, Tenn. Author: Rennolds, Edwin H. Description::. 301pp. 12mo. Portrait frontis, with original tissue guard; full-page photo illus. of the Confederate monument in Paris, TN. Many photo reproductions in text. Bound in original publisher's cloth, with title and decoration on front cover. One of the rarest of the Confederate Tennessee regimentals. After the War Rennolds became a principal in a Jacksonville soda bottling plant. The Henry County companies were in the thick of things during the War, at the major battlegrounds of Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia-- Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, Resaca, Atlanta, Franklin, Nashville, and elsewhere. This book came from the Library of Col. V. Y. Cook, Col. Cook made notes in pencil as to the death and manner of death of some of the soldiers. Heading: Place Published: Jacksonville, Florida Publisher: Sun Publishing Company Date Published: 1904 Edition: First Binding: Hardcover



Lot 16 Title: Johnny Reb and Billy Yank Author: Hunter, Alexander Description: 720pp. 8vo. Original green cloth with gold gilt front board and spine. Frontis Portrait of Robert E. Lee. Heading: Place Published: New York and Washington Publisher: The Neale Publishing Company Date Published: 1905 Edition: First Binding: Cloth Hardcover


Lot 17 Title: Is Davis a Traitor; or Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861? Author: Bledsoe, Albert Taylor Description: 12mo-over 6¾""-7¾"" tall. Contains 263 pp., INSCRIBED by the author-""To the Hon. R. W. Johnson / from his Friend / The Author / April 18th 1867. "" Bledsoe was appointed from Kentucky to the U.S. Military Academy and graduated in 1830, after which he served in the army at Fort Gibson, Indian territory, until 1832. He was mathematics & French professor at Kenyon College in Ohio and professor of mathematics at Miami from 1835-36. He studied theology and was ordained a clergyman in the Episcopal church in 1835. He had previously studied law and practiced in Springfield, IL and Washington, DC from 1838 to 1848. He was professor of mathematics at the University of Mississippi (1848-1854) and at the University of Virginia (1854 to 1861). In 1861 he entered confederate service as a colonel but was soon made Chief of the War Bureau and Acting Assistant Secretary of War. After the civil war, he began publication of the Southern Review and published the work at hand that defends the rights of the South to secede and presented an impassioned defense of Jefferson Davis. His work ends with a quote from John Tyler from 1787, ""I also wish to hand down to posterity my opposition to that system. British tyranny would have been more tolerable. "" Heading: Place Published: Baltimore Publisher: Printed for the Author, by Innes & Company Date Published: 1866 Edition: First Binding: Black Cloth hardcover


Lot 18 Title: Aftermath of the Civil War, in Arkansas Author: Clayton, Powell Description: 378pp. 6 in. X 8 in. Very good condition with some wear to spine Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: The Neale Publishing Company Date Published: 1915 Edition: First Binding: Blue Cloth Hardcover Title: Biographical Sketches of Gen. Pat Cleburne and Gen. T. C. Hindman together with Humorous Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the Late Civil War Author: Nash, Charles Edward Description: 300pp. 5.5 in. X 7.5 in. Overall good condition with wear and some discoloration and staining to the cloth cover. The spine is loose with the backboard being completely loose. Interior pages bright and clear with very little foxing. Heading: Place Published: Little Rock, Ark. Publisher: Tunnah & Pittard, Printers Date Published: 1898 Edition: First Binding: Red Cloth Hardcover


Lot 19 Title: Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee Author: Jones, J. William Description: 509pp. 8vo. Three quarter brown leather, marbled paper over boards, 4 raised bands, gilt lettering and sporting design on the spine with marble endpapers. Steel engraved portrait frontispiece and five inserted plates, thirteen wood engravings. Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: D. Appleton & Company, 549 and 551 Broadway Date Published: 1875 Edition: First Binding: Hardcover


Lot 20 Title: Three Years and a Half in the Army; or, History of the Second Colorados. Author: Williams, Mrs. Ellen Description: 178pp. Frontis Portrait. Original pictorial gilt-stamped red cloth. A quite rare privately printed personal account by a the wife of a bugler, about the Civil War campaigns on the Plains and in the Rockies, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, and Arkansas, including a unit roster for the Second Colorado Cavalry on pages 161-176. Many of the men of the Second Colorado had been miners before the war. Mrs. Williams gives an interesting view of the little-known southwestern campaigns of the war. 1 of 3 books printed before 1900 about Colorado in the Civil War and the only one of that group about the Second Regiment. Book measures 5 in. X 7.5 in. Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: Published for the Author by: Fowler & Wells Company, 733 Broadway Date Published: 1885 Edition: First Binding: Hardcover


Lot 21 Group of 4 Arkansas History books including 2 - Early Days in Arkansas Being for the Most Part the Personal Recollections of an Old Settler, by Pope, Judge William F., 1895 Blue Cloth Hardcover First Editions, 1 is in Fine Condition and the other is in Good Condition with the front endpapers loose; Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas, by Shinn, Josiah H., 1908 Brown Cloth Hardcover First Edition, Good Condition with front board loose from spine, Signed in front end papers by original owner Col. V. Y Cook; and A Pictorial History of Arkansas from the Earliest Times to the Year 1890, by Hempstead, Fay, 1890 Green Cloth Hardcover First Edition with Beautiful Gold Gilt Pictorial Front Board, Good Condition with some wear to front and back boards, front board is loose from spine.



Lot 22 Title: Historical Reviews of Arkansas - Its Commerce, Industry and Modern Affairs Vol. 1, 2 & 3 Author: Hempstead, Fay Description: 3 Volume Set, Three quarter black leather, black cloth over boards, marble end papers, and gilt lettering and design on the spine. Each Volume Measures 8.5 in. X 10.5 in. Heading: Place Published: Chicago Publisher: The Lewis Publishing Company Date Published: 1911 Binding: Hardbound

Lot 23 Title: Centennial History of Arkansas - Vol. 1, 2 & 3 Author: Herndon, Dallas T. Description: 3 Volume Set, green cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine and marble end papers. Each Volume Measures 8 in. X 10.5 in. Heading: Place Published: Chicago Publisher: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company Date Published: 1922 Edition: First Edition Binding: Hardbound

Lot 24 Title: Arkansas and Its People: A History, 1541-1930 - 4 Volume Set Author: Thomas, David Y. Description: 4 Volume Set, Three quarter black leather, blue cloth over boards, and gilt lettering on the spine. Each Volume Measures 8.5 in. X 10.75 in. Heading: Place Published: New York Publisher: The American Historical Society Inc. Date Published: 1930 Edition: First Binding: Hardbound

Lot 25 2 Sets of Arkansas history books including Arkansas of the Years by Fay Williams in 5 Volumes (Two Volume Ones) with One Volume One Signed by the author, 1951 First Edition set in red cloth with gilt lettering on front boards and spines, each volume measures 6 in. X 8.5 in.; and Annals of Arkansas 4 Volume Set by Herndon, Dallas T. in Blue Cloth Cover. Each Volume Measures 7.25 in. X 10.5 in.