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Prairie and Mountain Sketches
by FIELD, Matthew C.; [with] Kate L. Gregg; John Francis McDermott (editors)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. liv, 239. Frontis. color reproduction of Alfred Jacob Miller painting. Illustrated with black & white photo reproduction plates, a two-page map and drawings in the text. Title page and section heads printed in brown. American Exploration and Travel Series Vol. 23. Tan cloth, titles and decorations printed in green on the spine, pale green topstain: lower corner bumped, leaves crisp and bright. In the color illustrated dust jacket repeating the frontis. painting, with publisher's catalog printed verso, price clipped: edges just a touch rubbed. From the diaries, letters and articles for the New Orleans Picayune of assistant editor Matt Field, invited by Sir William Drummond Stewart to join his 1843 pleasure trip to the Rocky Mountains. The 1837 Miller painting of Fort Laramie used on the jacket, rediscovered by Clyde and Mae Reed Porter, earlier appeared in Bernard DeVoto's Across the Wide Missouri
Dust jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
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- Bookseller
- Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7021
- Title
- Prairie and Mountain Sketches
- Author
- FIELD, Matthew C.; [with] Kate L. Gregg; John Francis McDermott (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1957
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Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
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Seattle, Washington
About Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA
Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books was established in 1996 as a natural progression of proprietor Jeffrey Long's historical and bibliophilic interests. We are located in West Seattle and can be visited by appointment only.
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