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OMAHA, NEBRASKA]. COLLINS, Charles. Collins' Omaha Directory. Embracing a General Resident and Business Directory of the Citizens, and an Appendix Containing a Great Variety of Historical Data, Statistics and Facts . Omaha: Charles Collins June 1866. 8 o (198 x 120 mm). Yellow leaf of advertisements inserted between pp. 160-161. (Some scattered foxing.) Original black roan-backed printed boards (some wear); black cloth slipcase. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST OMAHA DIRECTORY. PRESENTATION COPY, with an oval portrait photograph of Collins mounted on the front pastedown, inscribed beneath: "Yours truly C. Collins" and inscribed on the front free endpaper: "To Jared T Bush(?) with compliments of the author." As in other recorded copies, the pagination is: leaf of ads, 80, [97]-204, with no pages 81-96. "The historical chapter gives much information on the beginnings of Omaha to which are added a number of short sketches of many of the local business concerns" (Streeter). Graff calls the work "unusually interesting. It contains about fifty pages of historical matter on the early history of Nebraska and Omaha. There is also a section headed 'Route to the West' (five pages) which contains much on the new route to Montana and includes a table of distances. There is also a post office directory for the state of Kansas and the territories of Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, Dakota, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Washington and Utah." AII Nebraska 93; Graff 806; Howes C-588 ("b"); Sabin 57261; Streeter IV:2023.