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Published by St. Louis Western Publishing Co. 1878., 1878
Seller: Arnold M. Herr, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: ex-library copy w/library markings & pocket. Rebound in green buckram library binding; minor staining to frontispiece; else in very good condition. Illustrated by B&W illustrations. 1st edition. Binding is cloth.
Published by Western Publishing Company, St. Louis, 1878
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. 564 pages. Index. Corners bumped and rubbed; all edges show wear. Good plus. (109).
Published by Western Publishin g Company, St. L:ouis, 1878
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Embossed Cloth. Condition: G. No Jacket. Assumed First Edition. 564 pp, many b/w illustrations, the book and contents are solid, the pages are lightly browned with occasional soil, there is much information about local business's, many with an illustration, the inside hinges are reinforced with book tape and the front and rear free endpapers are gone, the covers are heavily worn, especially along the spine and edges, the bottom 1.25" of the front outside hinge is cracked, this is a solid and usable copy of this book.
Published by Western Publishing Co., 1878
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large 8vo in blind-stamped green cloth, spine title and devices in gilt. Binding just a bit shaken, front hinge starting, corners rubbed through, frayed cloth at the spine ends, p.o. bookplate on the front pastedown. Also on the pastedown, and on the ffep, is the rubberstamp of 'Wm. J. Lemp, Jr. / Private Library / No. ______'. If you're not from St. Louis and/or don't know about beer baron Lemp and his family's sordid history, check out his Wikipedia page.
Published by Western Publishing Co; St. Louis; 564 pp.; ; Good; 1878/1878, 1878
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. _____Includes the expected sections on local businesses, including the E. Anheuser (Busch/Budweiser) Brewing Association._____ Also stock yards, Texas Land and Immigration Company, Fire Department and Police Department. _____ ._____However in a surprisingly candid assessment it also has sections on local swindlers, conmen, astrologers, tenement areas, tramps, grave robbers, "Clandestine Depravity" (ie the seduction of the innocent), organized prostitution, gamblers and saloons. _____ Also a full chapter on local murders. _____ Illustrated with full-page and intertext black & white illustrative cuts. _____ Rader=1021___The covers are well worn. _____ The front cover has a stain to the foredge, though there is minimal internal evidence. _____ ._____.
Published by St. Louis, St. Louis, 1878
Seller: High Ridge Books, Inc. - ABAA, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
Original blue stamped cloth, worn at edges. ix, [5]-564 pp. Internally very good. This is a comprehensive overview of the city of St. Louis, including history, significant buildings and locations, as well as and examination of social conditions, which was quite unusual for popular books of the day like this. For example, The chapter on Ways That Are Dark discusses the schemes of scammers that preyed on the citizens and visitors detailing "pocket book dropping", "snide jewelry sales", and mock auctions to cheat the prospective bidder. There is a section "Life Among the Lowly" which describes conditions in Castle Thunder, depicted as one of the worst tenement houses in the city. A most detailed look at St. Louis from an era before such honest assessments were published.
Published by Western Pub Co, St. Louis, 1878
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Octavo. 554, xix pages The largest book stores in the West before the Gold Rush were in St. Louis and Chicago (though this would change as California became more settled in the next decade). The decline in the prices of books by the late 1870's is noted and the cost of acquiring sets of Dickens insnoted in terms of binding, etc at far below the prices even those with over 250 illustrations. After providing an early history of St. Louis, the author writes of the hundreds of businesses, churches, civic buildings most of which were gone by the early 1960's. The chapter on Ways That Are Dark discusses the schemes of thieves and swindlers that preyed on the citizens and visitors detailing exactly how the "pocket book dropping" scam, "snide jewelry sales", mock auctions to cheat the prospective bidder operated, all with illustrations. The "street Arabs" are the homeless children who wander the streets of the city destined for what at best would be menial labor. The scene he describes at its worst is characterized thievery and prostitution, then the tenements of St. Louis are described which in spite of their filth and terrible odors he points out are not as disgusting as those in New York. It particularly describes "Castle Thunder" which was named by the police as the worst in the city, where mixed races slumber on the roofs in the summer in what the writer calls "promiscuous groups". The gamblers, pimps, fortune tellers and, of course, the prostitutes whose bodies are found all along the Mississippi. Finally, the book deals with drunkenness, the insane asylum and the many charitable organizations trying to at least save a few from a life no different from any other large city where survival among the poor often trumps virtue. Bound in blue-gray blind stamped cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. A very nice copy showing only very edge wear.
Published by Western Publishing Company, Jones & Griffin, St. Louis, Missouri, 1878
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Tooled brown cloth hardcover, 564 pages, engraved illustrations throughout, light soiling on endpapers, hinges loose,