Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw; Containing the whole of the Quarter Race in Kentucky; and Bob Herring. as well as Cupping on the Sternum. to which is added the Drama in Pokerville; A Night in a Swamp; and other stories by J.M. Field, Esq., of the St. Louis Reveille

Published by T.B. Peterson And Brothers, Philadelphia, 1858

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Octavo, [4], 203pp, [1]; 200pp, [16]. Brown cloth, title and illustration in gilt on the spine. Light sunning to the spine. Yellow endpapers, solid text block. Some fading and a few leaves with dampstaining to corners. Complete with frontispiece portraits and sixteen illustrated plates from original designs by Darley. A combined form of A Quarter Race in Kentucky, edited by William T. Porter, and Field's Drama in Pokerville, both originally issued separately but here printed from the original plates. A classic of Southern humor.

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Title
Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw; Containing the whole of the Quarter Race in Kentucky; and Bob Herring. as well as Cupping on the Sternum. to which is added the Drama in Pokerville; A Night in a Swamp; and other stories by J.M. Field, Esq., of the St. Louis Reveille
Author
[Thorpe, Thomas Bangs]; [Field, J.M.]
Publisher
T.B. Peterson And Brothers, Philadelphia
Publication year
1858
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Very good
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Cloth
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The first edition of Colonel Thorpe's Scenes in Arkansaw by Thomas Bangs Thorpe and J.M. Field, with The Drama In Pokerville by F.O.C. Darley.
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First Edition.
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