• Publication: Border War: A Tale of DisunionPublication Record # 451691
• Author: J. B. Jones
• Date: 1859-04-00
• Publisher: Rudd & Carleton
• Price:
  $1.25^?$: US dollar
• Pages: x+502
• Format:
  hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
• Type: NOVEL
• Notes:

  • Muslin bound
  • Publication date, price, and binding from classified advertisement, NY Times 1859-04-22 p5: as "Just published"; ... (quote) By the author of "Wild Western Scenes" (nowhere named); "One vol., large 12mo. Muslin. Price, $1 25." The two earlier hits in automated search ("border war" disunion) of newspapers are listings in "New Announcements" and "New Publications", American Publishers' Circular 1859-04-09 and -04-16, indicating publication during that week.
  • HathiTrust Digital Library provides full view of two copies, with original cover probably (relief design, no color or lettering): -- title leaf (U California copy) names the author; names publisher and printer/etc with full street addresses -- Contents, p[v]-x -- novel spans p[11]-502 -- "Catalogue", 4 leaves including p[1]-6, "New Books and New Editions Just Published ..."
• External IDs:
  • LCCN: 16-25030
  • OCLC/WorldCat: 1131364 9637051
  • Reginald-1: 07984

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• Border War: A Tale of Disunion • (1859) • novel by J. B. Jones