a j applegate andrew j applegate (1 resultados)

1-663 pages. Hardcover: H 22.75cm x L 14.75cm. Contemporary quarter leather binding - leather spine with yellow paper boards. Spine ends chipped with vertical lengthwise furrow; spine retains its original gilt lettered maroon title label; splitting to front joint but hinge remains firm; rear board only tenuously attached; boards soiled, stained, and rubbed with edges worn particularly at corners; old ink and pencil writing at top of front board. Front pastedown has old ink ownership inscription of John Tullis Ellison (1865-1947) who was Bibb County, Alabama solicitor and partner in the Ellison & Thompson law firm with Judge Jasper Fritz Thompson; old ink writing on front free endpaper and on peeled rear pastedown; antiquarian ink blots at margins of rear leaves; scattered antiquarian ink and old pencil writing/marks in margins to interior leaves; varied foxing/toning throughout; some creased corners. Text block is firm. Book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar (polyester film) sheet forming a dj which aids in securing rear board and modestly enhances shelf presence. Uncommon Reconstruction-era Alabama legal reference featuring resolutions and laws passed by Alabama's General Assembly including acceptance of the U.S. Constitution's Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments but also instigating segregated public schools, declaring the state's Ordinance of Secession as unconstitutional, vesting property rights in freed men, invalidating all prior contracts for slave purchases, etc.