The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror – Salesman’s Dummy Copy

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The Complete Story of the Galveston Horror, Written by the Survivors, Fully Illustrated with Photographs, Edited by John Coulter, United Publishers of America, Bell Publishing Co, Philadelphia, PA, 1900.

Hardcover, good, salesman’s dummy copy, green boards, gold titles and decoration on cover and back, pasted photographic print on cover, rubbing and light bumping to corners and spine ends, cover shows sun lines, small piece of masking tape on front paste-down endpaper with “H323” written, light foxing, order pages blank, title page has pink stamp imprint “The Bell Publishing Co., Philadelphia.” some ink has transferred to previous page.

As stated inside cover, “Incidents of the awful Tornado, Flood and Cyclone Disaster; Personal Experiences of Survivors; Horrible Looting of Dead Bodies, and Bodies Unburied . . . No way of Escape, only Death! Death! Everywhere!”