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11:00 AM PT - Feb 16th, 2012
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Title: The Commonwealth of Missouri: A Centennial Record
Author: Barns, C.[hancy] R., editor. Description: xxiv, 936 pp. Illustrated with numerous steel-engraved portrait plates, facsimile bank note, many wood-engraved illustrations in the text. (8vo) 24x16.5 cm. (9¾x6½") period full red morocco stamped in gilt and blind, all edges gilt. First Edition.Text divided into several sections: Archaeology; History; Physical Geography; Material Wealth; Educational Progress; Biographies, each with separate chapter lists. History section includes a lengthy chapter on Missouri in the Civil War. Heading: Place Published: St. Louis Publisher: Bryan, Brand & Co. Date Published: 1877 Condition reportBoth boards detached, wear to spine ends, overall scuffing to leather; internally very good and worthy of restoration; good.
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