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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Reprint 1st Thus. Modern Library No. 144., Rare, Reprint First Thus Edition, First Printing from roughly 1942 to 1944 due to the price of the "Giant Editions" on the back dj cover being $1.45. True hardback, not one of the earlier decaying leatherette softcovers. Probably the first real hardback. Slight musty odor. Mottling on book covers. Book has straight stiff spine, pointed tips, no leans or dings. Blue boards and top stain.Vincent Starrett does the introduction in this edition and that was also changed in the 1949 edition. Original aqua and black dust jacket with picture is not price clipped (.95) and has Modern Library catalog listed on the back. Earlier jackets were brown with no picture, just lists of authors. This jacket has no lists on the front cover. The later 1949 jacket reintroduced the lists. General overall wear with slight crumple and loss at spine ends, tips and most edges. Looks spiffy in new plastic cover protector. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. 2 volumes. Reprint of the extremely rare first edition published in 1913. 1,344pp. Illustrations, index. Original gray-brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. Extensive index. A very fine set in matching slipcase. Bibliographer Stanley W. Paher states of the first edition: "Of the half dozen major statewide histories published, this set is considered to be the rarest of all. Editor Davis has brought together a huge collection of historical essays and special treatises written by about 45 people, though much of it is his own work. several of the subject chapters are reliable renditions and have been used as primary sources for other books. a landmark study in Nevada history." Includes extensive chapters on geography, Indians, territorial life, law and crime, mining history (Comstock, Sutro Tunnel, etc.), politics, journalism, education, religion, transportation, business and finance, agriculture, social organizations, divorce, the military, reclamation, etc.; each of the 16 existing counties receives a separate chapter written by a local resident. An important source! For this reprint, Paher has added a new index of 6,000 subject entries. [Paher, Nevada, An Annotated Bibliography: 450]. Book.