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The Big bear of Arkansas, and other sketches : illustrative of characters and incidents in the south and south-west / edited by William T. Porter ; with illustrations by Darley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926.
- Sabin Americana : History of the Americas, 1500-1926
- Library of humorous American works
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor.
- Southwest, Old--Anecdotes.
- Southwest, Old.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2]-112, 115-181 p., [4] leaves of plates ) ill. ;
- Other Title:
- Big bear of Arkansas, and other sketches
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson and Bros., [1869?] [c1843] (Collins)
- Notes:
- Cover title: Big bear of Arkansas. And other south western sketches ... Philadelphia, T.B. Peterson & Bro.
- Added illustrated t.p.: The big bear of Arkansas, and other tales.
- The big bear of Arkansas is by T.B. Thorpe. Other named contributors include Sol. Smith and John A. Stuart.
- "Library of humorous American works. With illustrations by Darley."--cover. Cf. Smither, N. Library of humorous American works: A bibliographical study, 1936, p. 57-58, where this title, first issued by Peterson in 1856, is listed as no. 14 in the series.
- Lithographed cover signed: T. Sinclair's Lith., Phila. A. Bigot, fecit.
- Six of the ten engravings are included in the pagination.
- Publisher's advertisement for the Library of humorous American works, "Price 75 cents each," p. [4] of cover. According to Smither, the price was raised to 75 cents in 1869 when the publisher issued "the thirty-three titles accepted today as the Peterson 'Library of humorous American works.'"
- Error in pagins: p. v and vii misnumbered 5 and 7.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- Sabin no. 95662.
- Reproduction of original from The American Antiquarian Society.
- Contains:
- Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, 1815-1878. Big bear of Arkansas.
- OCLC:
- 13
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