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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. <p>Originally published in 1842, John Will M. Breazeale’s Life as It Is is an insightful—and at times chilling—collection of essays on a variety of subjects relating to life in early East Tennessee. Though little is known about the author, a frontier lawyer and editor of the Tennessee Journal from 1837 to 1838, scholars of the nineteenth-century South, Tennessee historians, and even true crime buffs will find his observations of considerable interest.<br /><br />The first chapters present a history of Tennessee from its first European exploration through the state’s admission to the Union. Later chapters highlight the state’s unique geographic features, followed by a gruesome account of the murderous rampage of Micajah and Wiley Harp, who terrorized settlers along the line separating eastern Kentucky and Tennessee at the turn of the nineteenth century. Breazeale next… Read More

Hardback. New.

Nashville, TN: Charles Elder, 1969. 256 pp., dark-green cloth w/ gold lettering; Book shows a little soil & a few spots of foxing to edges of page block (esp. top); crease to top corner of 5 leaves at various places in book; Jacket shows wear, chipping, short tears & small creases to edges w/ some fading to spine; rear panel looks nibbled at edges, sometimes encroaching about an inch w/ 1 of these incursions extended by a tear about 2" further in / This is "A 1969 Facsimile Reproduction of the First and Only Edition, Published in 1842 by Charles Elder, Bookseller and Publisher, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1969." / Title of book (continued from above): ". . . Battle of King's Mountain; HISTORY OF THE HARPS, (Two Noted Murderers;) A Satirical Burlesque Upon the Practice of Electioneering; Legislative, Judicial and Ecclesiastical Incidents; Descriptions of Natural Curiosities; A Collection of Anecdotes, &c." / ". . . Breazeale's most distinctive contribution .… Read More

Univ of Tennessee Pr, 2009. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 256 pages. 7.00x5.00x0.75 inches.

Nashville: Charles Elder, Bookseller and Publisher, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. 12mo. 256 pp. Facsimile; limited edition, number 96. Signed and inscribed by the publisher on the front free endpaper. A fresh clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket.

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

Nashville, Tennessee: Charles Elder Bookseller, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good+ dust jacket which has been wrapped for protection. Spine of dust jacket is sunned. Limited edition plate is attached to the front endpaper. Prior owner's name on the front pastedown. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 256 pages .

Knoxville TN: James Williams , 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 256p octavo, A very good copy in the original gray boards and tan cloth spine with partial printed label. A few non-authoial gift presentations, plus a bookplate of F W Taylor jr. Laid in is a 4 page letter written in a legible hand by James W Oates of Mountain Home, Tn, addressed to Mr J F Taylor of Whitesburg Tn. in which he recounts his loose connection to the Harpes brothers murderers due to the facts that he owned the land where these murders occurred. He addotional details of executions related to the case. News clipping for 1954 concerning the Harpe murders also laid in.

Knoxville, TN: James Williams, 1842. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 X 7 1/2 Inches. 256 PP. First printing in the original brown cloth binding. Original spine label intact. One of the most important, early books on Tennessee. Sabin #7651. Howes B1164. Endpapers have been replaced (to match). Minor paper loss to title-page from removal of earlier stamp and/or label. Toning. A more than acceptable copy of one of the scarcest books on Tennessee history in existence.

Knoxville, (TN): Printed by James Williams, 1842. First edition. Small 8vo. 256 pp. Ownership signature Frank M. Fulkerson / Rogersville, Tenn" on front endpaper; Fulkerson, a native of Virginia, moved with his family to Tennessee as a boy, served as an ordinance sergeant with the 4th Tennessee in Mexico, read law and practiced in Tazewell and Rogersville, and served in the Tennessee legislature, in addition to managing his plantation and various businesses. Howes B-741 ("aa"). Sabin 7651. American Imprints 42-718. Allen Imprints 1850. Allen Some Tennessee Rarities 39. Horn Twenty Tennessee Books 9: "Succinct and graphic sketch of the history of Tennessee to the time of its writing. a particularly entertaining and enlightening account of all phases of day-by-day life of the early pioneers of the state. Chiefly known and valued for its detailed story of the almost incredibly atrocious depredations of the noted outlaws, Micajah and Wiley Harp, who terrorized the dwellers in the early settlements and… Read More