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Miscellanies.... No. 1, Containing A Tour on the Prairies
by IRVING, Washington
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0809440334
- ISBN 13
- 9780809440337
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
[New York]: Time-Life Books, 1983. Hardcover. 8vo. Full brown blind-embossed leather with gilt lettering. xiii, 335pp. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, sewn-in yellow silk page marker. Fine. Tight and handsome facsimile reprint of the scarce 1835 John Murray first edition. A volume in this publisher's "Classics of the Old West" series. GRAFF 3097. NEW HOWES I 88 note. RADER 2029 note.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36021
- Title
- Miscellanies.... No. 1, Containing A Tour on the Prairies
- Author
- IRVING, Washington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0809440334
- ISBN 13
- 9780809440337
- Publisher
- Time-Life Books
- Place of Publication
- [New York]
- Date Published
- 1983
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana;
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- Gilt
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