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BEFORE LEWIS AND CLARK, DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE MISSOURI 1785-1804
by NASATIR, A.P., EDITED BY
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Gentle Edge and Corner Wear/Chipped, Worn Dust Jackets
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
St. Louis, Missouri: St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation, 1952. Two volumes uniformly bound. Dust jackets are worn, jacket spines faded with paper loss at spine extremities, several areas of staining. Front blurb of Volume 1 is detached but present. Protected in mylar jackets. Both volumes are clean throughout with minor cover wear. The five fold-out maps in Volume 1 are intact and clean. Total 853pp. A important resource of material on early exploration of the Missouri River and environs. . First Edition. Green Cloth. Gentle Edge and Corner Wear/Chipped, Worn Dust Jackets. Large Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014552
- Title
- BEFORE LEWIS AND CLARK, DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE MISSOURI 1785-1804
- Author
- NASATIR, A.P., EDITED BY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Gentle Edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- Chipped, Worn Dust Jackets
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation
- Place of Publication
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Date Published
- 1952
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Americana, Lewis and Clark, Western Americana, Missouri River
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Blurb
- The blurb refers to the commentary that appears on the dust jacket flaps or the rear of the dustjacket. In the case of a...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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