Search Results: hand book of alabama a complete by berney saffold

Birmingham:: Roberts & Son,. 1892. Hardcover. Moderate to heavy wear of this hardback 2nd revised edition. Front hinge cracked but holding; could be some endpapers missing. Nine pages of ads, including ad on front pastedown. Rear hinge uncracked; abrasion on rear pastedown where original map (now missing) probably was afixed. Brown cloth covers show heavily bumped corners, heavy fraying of lower spine, white paint drop (resembles a teardrop) on spine but does not obscure title lettering. Contents tight, clean, with at least one instance on page 492 of half-inch tear and creasing in margin (does not affect text). Errata slip tipped in. No DJ. Not library discard. ; .

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Alabama: Mobile Register Printers, 1878. Hardcover. First Edition. 5.75 x 8.5in. xxxix. 338pp. + folding color map. Bound in recent quarter polished calf over marbled boards. Signed and inscribed (rather humorously) by the author: "This book was written by me in 1878. Saffold Berney. Aug. 11, 1928." NEAR FINE. Shows the occasional trace of thumbing in the margins of several pages throughout, the folding map has neatly placed tape re-enforcements on the verso, else a Fine copy having been exceptionally well maintained. As pictured.

Mobile: Mobile Register Print, 1878. Quarter Leather. Very Good binding. Octavo. xl, 338 pp., folding map. First edition. Backed in modern morocco with marbled paper over boards. An attractive copy in modern binding that reuses the original boards, though covered over in new marbled paper; bottom corner of the front board is rounded; original pastedowns are present preserving an inscription to Major General Quincy Adams Gillmore by the Mobile Board of Trade (?), dated 1880. Gillmore was a Union general in the Civil War. Contents are clean with very little foxing; Eugene A. Smith's "Geological Map of Alabama" is in remarkably sharp condition, no misfolding; very minor closed tear at the intersection of the folds. An uncommon book to find complete with the map. Accompanying this copy is Eugene A. Smith's "Geological Survey of Alabama. Report of Progress for 1876" (Montgomery, AL: W. W. Screws, 1876), with a printed "compliments of the author" label tipped in before the title page. Marcou & Marcou 602.