Jeff Davis Life, Speeches DUNAWAY 1913

Jeff Davis Life & Speeches by L. S. Dunaway, 1913 1st Edition HB - 255 pages. Jeff Davis was the Governor of Arkansas, & died on Jan 3, 1913, at age 51. This book was published in that same year, in Little Rock, Arkansas, possibly as a commemorative edition of his political career. Like him or hate him, he was a significant figure in Arkansas history. Little Rock Democrat Print. & Litho. Co. EX LIB Hardback. No jacket. Associated ex lib markings, stampings, bookplate, etc. FAIR condition. Burgundy cloth boards, gold foil lettering on spine. Beautiful frontispiece portraits of the author & Jeff Davis on facing front pages. Fading, soiling to cloth boards; chipping and tearing to spine cover; binding split with binding mesh showing at front cover; front endpapers loose & laid-in; last blank flyleaf loose & laid-in; inner pages age-yellowed. Inner pages clear, bright. Profusely illustrated w/ beautiful old black and white plates / photos. Extremely scarce in this early format!