Life As It Is

Knoxville TN: James Williams , 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 256p octavo, A very good copy in the original gray boards and tan cloth spine with partial printed label. A few non-authoial gift presentations, plus a bookplate of F W Taylor jr. Laid in is a 4 page letter written in a legible hand… Read more about this item

Nashville: Charles Elder, Bookseller and Publisher, 1969. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. 12mo. 256 pp. Facsimile; limited edition, number 96. Signed and inscribed by the publisher on the front free endpaper. A fresh clean copy in a slightly worn dust jacket.

Knoxville TN: James Williams, At The Office of the Post. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1842. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good hardcover edition, has a previous owner's name on the front pastedown. Front hinge has cracked but has been repaired. Wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Text is foxed throughout. ; 12mo … Read more about this item

James Williams, At the Office of the Post. Very Good+. 1842. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good+ hardcover which has been rebound with new endpapers. No names. 0; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 256 pages .

Nashville, Tennessee: Charles Elder Bookseller, Inc.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1970. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine hardcover in a Very Good+ dust jacket which has been wrapped for protection. Spine of dust jacket is sunned. Limited edition plate is attached to the front endpaper. Prior owner's name on the front pastedown. ; 12mo … Read more about this item

Unknown Binding. Fair. [FIRST EDITION] Knoxville, TN: James Williams, 1842. Hardcover in publisher's paper over boards with cloth spine-strip. 254 pages. RARE TITLE, being a collection of essays on a variety of subjects relating to life in early East Tennessee. Howes B 741-"aa". Lacks pp, 255-6 and all front and rear blank sheets. With ownerhip signature on t.p.… Read more about this item

Nashville, TN: Charles Elder, 1969. 256 pp., dark-green cloth w/ gold lettering; Book shows a little soil & a few spots of foxing to edges of page block (esp. top); crease to top corner of 5 leaves at various places in book; Jacket shows wear, chipping, short tears & small creases to edges w/ some fading to spine; rear panel… Read more about this item

Univ Tennessee Press, 2009-10-15. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New. <p>Originally published in 1842, John Will M. Breazeale’s Life as It Is is an insightful—and at times chilling—collection of essays on a variety of subjects relating to life in early East Tennessee. Though little is known about the author, a frontier lawyer and editor of the Tennessee Journal from 1837 to 1838, scholars of… Read more about this item

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.