Robert L Cobbs (6 results)

Magazine. 32p. 8.5x10.75 inches, photos, ads, listings, very good pastebound magazine on newsprint and stapled semi-glossy pictorial wraps. The name and format has changed from the earlier Waltzing Bugle days. Cover "story" is the Fall Fling at the Westside bar. Numbering of issues was erratic. No on Prop 6 ad. Map to gay bars and baths. More reviews and entertainment features in this issue than in earlier issues. Very low-level free gay guide. Mostly ads for bars, and gay-owned services and shops. Various Bugle incarnations were The Waltzing Bugle and The Los Angeles Bugle.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Good, clean, tight condition with light wear. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged.

Condition: Poor. 1831 Revised Edition. Hardcover. Poor. No Dust Jacket. Bumped corners. Front cover detached. Prominent wearing and damage on covers and spine. Inscribed by previous owner on flyleaf. Prominent foxing, tearing, and damage on interior pages. Volume One only. 458p.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good Condition. No Jacket. 458 pages plus xlvi index. Volume One only. Full leather binding is scuffed, somewhat worn, but solid with no chips. Former owner's name on the front free paste down and title page. One of two front blank end papers is missing. Light foxing throughout. A fairly scarce book.

We offer Volume I only, not the scarce volume II. 4, 458, XLVI pp. Bound firmly in attractive original sheep, with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. A couple of institutional stamps and bookplate; leaf 253-254 has a margin tear which affects the side margin notes but not the main text. Else a fresh and Very Good copy. The laws are arranged alphabetically by subject. Volume I's Appendix prints the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. and Tennessee Constitutions, and "Precedents for Justices of the Peace," including forms. With a detailed index . Allen 922. II Harv. Law Cat. 720 [Volume I only]. Sabin 31087. Babbitt, Hand-List of Legislative Sessions and Session Laws 552. Not in Cohen.

The final work of Tennessee lawyer and historian John Haywood, completed after his 1825 death by Robert Cobbs. The compilation is organized by subject, with applicable portions of various laws selected for each heading. Unsurprisingly, many of the laws deal with free and enslaved blacks, including a law requiring a slaveholder to pay for goods stolen by his slaves, depending on how ill-fed or clothed they are. Other laws regulate dueling, stray livestock, religion (including a law outlawing the sale of alcohol within one mile of public worship), and prisons. "Volume Two includes Land Laws and Indian Treaties. The original bindings of this two volume set differ, although showing the same date of publication" - Allen. ALLEN 922. ALLEN MORE RARITIES 341. AII (TENNESSEE) 444, 445. Original calf, boards ruled in blind, gilt leather labels. Hinges cracked but holding. Spine leather cracking, boards somewhat scuffed. Contemporary ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper and titlepage of volume one. Moderate tanning and foxing, occasional dampstaining. Good overall.