America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West
by Hawgood, John A
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967. First American Edition . Cloth. Very Good/Poor. Inscribed by Hawgood on front free endpaper to a fellow academic and "old friend and drinking partner." xxiii, 440, x pp., illus. Slight lean to spine, spine lightly bumped at crown and heel and slightly pulled at crown, upper edges of boards and page edges sunned. Jacket priceclipped, faded at spine, handled, bumped at edges and folds, with heavy chipping, creases and tears at edges. Size: 8vo
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- Bookseller
- Crane's Bill Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10810
- Title
- America's Western Frontiers: The Exploration and Settlement of the Trans-Mississippi West
- Author
- Hawgood, John A
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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- Sunned
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