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American Books With Tails To 'Em . A Private Pocket List Of The Incomplete Or Unfinished American Periodicals Transactions Memoirs Judicial Reports La

American Books With Tails To 'Em . A Private Pocket List Of The Incomplete Or Unfinished American Periodicals Transactions Memoirs Judicial Reports La

Stevens, Henry

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General ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354489370
ISBN13: 9789354489372
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 18 2021
Pages: 44
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some books end; this one keeps watch on what did not. In American Books with Tails to 'Em, Henry Stevens brings order to the loose threads of American print culture. A map for lost serials. Compiled in 19th century America by one of the era's most energetic bookmen, this rare books bibliography doubles as a sharp bibliographic checklist catalog: incomplete or unfinished American periodicals, transactions, memoirs, journals, and those maddening continuations that drift out of sight. Stevens notes works in progress across early American publishing, from incomplete legislative documents to the slow accumulation of judicial reports, making the volume a quietly indispensable library reference handbook. For readers who love the detective-work of titles, editions, and provenance, it is an absorbing periodicals bibliographic index; for professionals, it functions as a practical librarians acquisition reference and a book collectors checklist to guide hunting, cataloguing, and gap-filling. Its value today is both historical and oddly contemporary: it captures the realities of american imprints bibliography before databases, when information travelled by correspondence, auctions, and personal networks, and when even official records could remain unfinished. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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