AMERICAN PRIMERS, INDIAN PRIMERS, ROYAL PRIMERS AND THIRTY SEVEN OTHER TYPES OF NON-NEW-ENGLAND PRIMERS ISSUED PRIOR TO 1830; A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-SIX CUTS . . . (Spine/front board title: "Non-New England Primers.")

AMERICAN PRIMERS, INDIAN PRIMERS, ROYAL PRIMERS AND THIRTY SEVEN OTHER TYPES OF NON-NEW-ENGLAND PRIMERS ISSUED PRIOR TO 1830; A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST EMBELLISHED WITH TWENTY-SIX CUTS, WITH AN INTRODUCTION & INDEXES COMPILED BY CHARLES F. HEARTMAN. Title page specifies "Three hundred copies printed for Harry B. Weiss, Highland Park N.J." whereas rear colophon states "Five hundred copies for sale have been reproduced by the photo-offset process by Ardlee Service, Inc., New York City." i-xx, 21-159, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 23.75cm x L 15.5cm. No dust jacket present. Brown cloth; surface blemish at rear board's lower right; faded white ink shelf number at lower spine but with no other exterior or interior institutional marks; spine's paper title label well toned; front board's paper title label has some losses at edges and some surface abrasion affecting lettering. Reddish-brown top edge; toning/foxing to fore-edge. Bookplate of Lucius Bryan Dabney on front pastedown; some foxing/toning to endpapers; occasional spots of foxing and soiling to interior leaves with center fore-edge of pages 109-110 nicked. Binding is firm. Typescript-style text. German emigre Charles F. Heartman (1883-1953) was an intriguing bibliophile who started bookstores in New York and New Jersey before relocating to New Orleans in 1935 and to Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1936 where his failed effort in establishing an utopian community evolved to become "The Book Farm," a publishing, research, and bookselling operation. Heartman shifted The Book Farm to Biloxi in 1945 and then to New Braunfels, Texas from 1947 to 1951 where after he returned to New Orleans to start The Southern Library Service which only operated briefly before his death in 1953. This book was acquired from the estate of Vicksburg, Mississippi attorney Lucius Bryan Dabney Sr., 1893-1967, (with his aforementioned bookplate) whose insightful, ardent, and voluminous accumulation of Mississippi Valley-related books and papers is preserved as the Natchez Trace Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.…