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The Big bear of Arkansas, and other sketches : Illustrative of characters and incidents in the south and south-west.

0000; Gale Group; Linguagem: English

Porter, William Trotter, Thorpe, Thomas Bangs, Smith, Sol. (Solomon), Stuart, John A. (John Allan), Darley, Felix Octavius Carr,

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. Book.