[TENNESSEE] BREAZEALE, J.W.M. Life As It Is; or Matters and Things in General: containing, amongst other things, historical ske...
Knoxville: Printed by James Williams, 1842. First edition. Original cloth with decoration in blind, paper spine label, housed in a morocco backed case. 7 3/8 x 5 inches (18.5 x 12 cm); 256 pp. The spine repaired, still with some splits to joint, light rubbing and stains to cloth, the front free endpaper partially affixed to the pastedown, the rear free endpaper becoming loose, ink ownership signature and pencil markings including a partial hand-written index at rear, a sound copy.

Provenance: J.H. Myers (penciled note at front dated 1847 with history of the volume through 1888); Penelope Johnson Allen, noted Tennessee historian (ink signature to blank dated 1926).

A scarce Tennessee imprint, rare in original cloth, of this history of the state, including the Harp brother murders. Bradford 530; Howes B-741; Sabin 7651; Streeter Sale 1670.

C Private Collection of Barbara and Ira Lipman

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