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Wagons Westward: The Old Trail to Santa Fe by Sperry, Armstrong
- Bookseller: Vashon Island Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 0769700
- Format: Hard Cover
- Book condition: Very Good/No Jacket
- Illustrator: Sperry, Armstrong (illustrator); Over 30 b/w Illustrations (including title Page & headpieces); Color Pictorial Endpapers
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: John C. Winston Company
- Place: Chicago
- Date published: 1936
Description
Chicago: John C. Winston Company. Very Good/No Jacket. 1936. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall Used In brown cloth with red titling, ix, [1], 276 pages. Story of exploration and expansion west from Missouri territory in 1846, couched in fictional narrative. Notable for the 12 full-page reproductions of the author's illustrations, and the glossary of "trail talk" at rear. (light shelfwear to extremities/corners, name in pencil). .
jacket : Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book 8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes. Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. shelfwear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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