1931, THE OREGON TRAIL by Francis Parkman, HBw/dj Farrar, DAUGHERTY ILLUSTR, VG

Description: This masterpiece by Francis Parkman is a first-person account of a 2-month summer tour in 1846 of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas. Parkman was 23 at the time. The heart of the book covers the three weeks Parkman spent hunting buffalo with a band of Oglala Sioux. This version published by Farrar & Rinehart is BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES DAUGHERTY. I believe it's a later printing and not a First Edition/Printing, although there is no information on the copyright page on publication. The publication page does not have a Farrar & Rinehart logo. Other copies I can find online have some key differences. Editions online editions have pictorial endpapers; the endpapers of this copy are plain paper. There is no $3.00 price on the front dust jacket flap, but it also doesn't have a book club notch on the back boards. It has a title page vignette which is similar to the endpapers seen in other copies, but other copies don't have a title page vignette. In any case, this is a VERY ATTRACTIVE EDITION IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. The dust jacket has light edge wear wear with small chips and tears, now handsomely portrayed in a mylar jacket. Clean light brown boards with light edge and corner wear, unrubbed front board spine titling and decoration. There is a nice Christmas 1935 inked inscription on the first free endpapers, no further marks in 385 clean and solidly bound pages, with full page and within text B&W illustrations. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. B88

Price: 30 USD

Location: Burtonsville, Maryland

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