Oregon Trail: Sketches Of Prairie And Rocky-mountain Life # 678
by Parkman Francis
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Penguin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. Penguin First Edition. A Paperback in Very good+ condition with a sound binding, part of the front cover has some indentations on the left hand side. The interior is bright & unmarked. The DJ is unclipped, some chipping along the top cover edges, light spine fading. "Parkman (1823-1893) laconically narrates his series of misadventures involving Indians, buffalo, and bad weather in this account of his long journey from St. Louis to the wild west and back, beginning in spring of 1846." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 346 pages .
Synopsis
On April 28, 1846, Francis Parkman left Saint Louis on his first expedition west. The Oregon Trail documents his adventures in the wilderness, sheds light on America's westward expansion, and celebrates the American spirit.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25260
- Title
- Oregon Trail: Sketches Of Prairie And Rocky-mountain Life # 678
- Author
- Parkman Francis
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- Travel > Frontier And Pioneer Life, Indians Of Norh America
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Education; Natives, Canadian/American;
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Glossary
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.