The Mammoth Cave and Its Denizens. A Descriptive Guide

Cincinnati, Ohio: Robert Clarke & Co., 1869. Book. Very Good. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Second Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. RARE in current commerce in any edition, the 1869 edition last seen in dealers catalogues and at auction 1968 and earlier. From the collection of noted Mammoth Cave historian and author Harold Meloy, who has created stapled stiff paper wrappers with handwritten title and his name to protect this copy. No edition stated, but Second Edition, the first, much different and smaller, was published in 1868 Very Good, in original purple wrappers, vi, 95, [1] pages : 1 illustration, title page printed in black, red, and green. Text within single rule border. Includes index. Poem "Mammoth Cave. By George D. Prentice": pages 89-91. "Table of distances on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad": page 95. Chips, edge wear and light soiling to wrappers, internally clean and unmarked..