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Orig White Stiff card Covers Cloth Backstrap 30pp (Uncut) Frontisplate Of Byron A Vg Copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. xiv, 434pp, index, illustrated with historical photographs, very clean and bright, unmarked inside and out, but for bold autographs at front fly of contributors, including Editor Lew Nicholls; as-issued without a dust jacket. Greenup County, Kentucky, home of KY author and educator Jesse Stuart. Chapter / sections include Native Americans, by Nicholls, Establishment of state and county government, by Nicholls, Transportation, by Nicholls, Aviation History of Greenup County, by Martin, The African-American Experience, by Nicholls, History of Religion, Communities: Oldtown, North Fork, Laurel, Frasure, by Kathleen Virgin-Kenney, History of the City of Greenup, by Nicholls, Weddings in Greenup, by Dunn & Roe, History of Argillite, by Harris, The History of Hunnewell, by Thomas, City of Russell History, by Nicholls, History of South Shore, Nicholls, Raceland / Worthington, Sammons, History of Wurtland, by Stafford & Nicholls, Camp Swigert, by Stafford, The City of Flatwoods, by Byrne, War, by Piatt, Byrne, and Nicholls, Industrial Development, by Peterson, Whitt, and Penkava, Education, by Webb, Sports, by Piatt, Fish and Wildlife, by Soc Clay, and Greenup County Authors, by Gifford. Scarce. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp. 30. Frontis, 3 plates. 8vo. Quarter cloth, boards. One pencil notation in the margin.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. G. H. Jalland; Hugh Thomson; E. Caldwell; Fred Roe; et al. (illustrator). A limited edition ten-volume set of the prose and poetry of the Scottish novelist George Whyte-Melville. A ten-volume collection of works in the publisher's original cloth bindings. Ink inscription to the title page of each volume, dated 1899. G. H. Jalland illustrated Volumes II and XIII with fourteen plates. E. Caldwell and H. M. Brock illustrated Volume III with fourteen plates. Pinch Mason and Hugh Thomson illustrated Volume IV with fourteen plates. E. Caldwell illustrated Volume VII with fourteen plates. H. M. Brock illustrated Volume VIII with thirteen illustrations and Volume IX with ten plates. Fred Roe illustrated Volume X with twelve plates. Harrington Bird illustrated Volume XI with ten plates. Cecil Alden illustrated Volume XII with twelve plates. All frontispieces are depicted in colour. Collated, complete.One of 1050 copies printed of this edition of Whyte-Melville's works. George John Whyte-Melville (1821-1878) was a Scottish poet and novelist whose work mainly concerned field sports. This ten volume set of his prose and poetry includes: Volume II: Katerfelto: A Story of Exmoor (1898) Volume III: Uncle John: A Novel (1898) Volume IV: Market Harborough or How Mr. Sawyer Went to the Shires/Inside the Bar or Sketches at Soakington (1899) Volume VII: Tilbury Nogo or Passages in the Life of an Unsuccessful Man/Scotland and the Moors (1899) Volume VIII: Songs and Verses/Bones and I or the Skeleton at Home (1899) Volume IX: Black but Comely (1899) Volume X: The Brookes of Bridlemere (1899) Volume XI: The White Rose (1899) Volume XII: Roy's Wife (1899) Volume XIII: Satanella: A Story of Punchestown (1899) In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally sound, though faded to the spines, with shelf wear to the boards. Small marks to the spines of Volume IX, X and XII. Front hinge to Volume XI is slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally clean, with the odd spot and offsetting to the first and last couple of pages. Some age toning to the pages of Volume VII, XI, XII and XIII. Very Good. book.