Description
The first edition of Colonel Thorpe’s Scenes in Arkansaw by Thomas Bangs Thorpe and J.M. Field, with The Drama In Pokerville by F.O.C. Darley.
Octavo, [4], 203pp, [1]; 200pp, [16]. Brown cloth, title and illustration in gilt on the spine. Light sunning to the spine. Yellow endpapers, solid text block. Some fading and a few leaves with dampstaining to corners. Complete with frontispiece portraits and sixteen illustrated plates from original designs by Darley. A combined form of A Quarter Race in Kentucky, edited by William T. Porter, and Field’s Drama in Pokerville, both originally issued separately but here printed from the original plates. A classic of Southern humor.
