JEDEDIAH SMITH - TRADER & TRAILBREAKER by Sullivan, Maurice S - 1936

Press of the Pioneers, 1936. Very Good. Sullivan, Maurice S.. Jedediah Smith: Trader & Trailbreaker. NY: Press of the Pioneers, 1936. 233pp. Indexed. 8vo. Red cloth with gilt embossing. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges and split rear endsheet.

New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1936. First Edition. . Hardcover. Good. Howard Simon. Very good clean tight copy. Text free of marks. Professional book dealer since 1999. All orders are processed promptly and carefully packaged with tracking.

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New York: Press of the Pioneers, Inc, 1936. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xvi,233,[3]pp; illus. Early owners inscription to front endpaper, old bookseller's description clipped and tipped onto front pastedown, with some offsetting to pastedowns from binders glue; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.75), sunned at spine and panels, modest wear, with several shallow losses and small tears; Very Good.

New York: Press of the Pioneers, Inc, 1936. First Edition. 233pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. A very nice copy of this biography on the legendary mountain man, Jedediah Smith, who covered much of the terra incognito of the American west in the early 19th century, including some of the most inhospitable (Mojave, Salt Desert, etc.). While he was doing all of this, the closest American town is the fledgling western metropolis of St. Louis. "Smith was the discoverer of the central route from the Rockies to the Pacific; leader of the party which made effective discovery of the South Pass; the first white man to cross Nevada; the first to traverse Utah from North to South and from west to east; the first American to enter California by the overland route; the first white man to conquer the High Sierras and the first to explore the Pacific Slope from San Diego to Vancouver." - from the jacket.

New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 233pp. Foreword and notes by Rufus Rockwell Wilson. Illustrated by Howard Simon. Small pen notation on rear pastedown, owner's decorative bookplate on front pastedown, spine a bit cocked, else very good in a very good dustwrapper with loss to the spine head, spine tanned.

New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1936. First Edition. Large 8vo. 233pp. Notes; Index. Map. Illustrations by Howard Simon. Red cloth with gilt lettering in illustrated dustjacket. Small owner label else fine in fine dustjacket.(with minor agetoning). The first full-length biography of Jedediah Smith, the greatest of the trail breakers of his period. A giant among men, he was discoverer of the central route from the Rockies to the Pacific; leaders of the party which made effective discovery of the South Pass; the first white man to cross Nevada; the first to traverse Utah from north to south, and from west to east; the first American to enter California by the overland route; the first white man to conquer the Hight Sierras and the first to explore the Pacific Slope from San Diego to Vancouver.