WESTERN LIFE IN THE STIRRUPS: A SKETCH TO THE WEST IN THE SPRING & SUMMER OF 1832. Edited with an introduction by Dwight L. Smith
by RICH, Virtulon
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Chicago, (IL): The Caxton Club, 1965. First edition, published as a keepsake by the club from the original manuscript. 12mo. xix, 81 pp. Map, frontispiece portrait of Rich, plates. Rich traveled from Vermont to Illinois. Cloth-backed marbled boards (rubbed), gilt spine title, endpaper maps. Very good copy with a piece of Caxton Club ephemera laid in.
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- Bookseller
- Bartlebys Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65675
- Title
- WESTERN LIFE IN THE STIRRUPS: A SKETCH TO THE WEST IN THE SPRING & SUMMER OF 1832. Edited with an introduction by Dwight L. Smith
- Author
- RICH, Virtulon
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Caxton Club
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, (IL)
- Date Published
- 1965
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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