Author: PARKMAN, FRANCIS
Title: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. Full-Leather. ISBN: 0760303770. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library reprint edition of Francis Parkman's famous account of his travels and experiences in the American Midwest along sections of the Oregon Trail east of Fort Laramie starting in 1846. Includes color illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Brown silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A gift-worthy, about-Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xx, 334 pages. Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics
Title: The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1983. Full-Leather. ISBN: 0760303770. A deluxe leatherbound Franklin Library reprint edition of Francis Parkman's famous account of his travels and experiences in the American Midwest along sections of the Oregon Trail east of Fort Laramie starting in 1846. Includes color illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton. An entry in the publisher's 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature series, issued in conjunction with the Bicentennial of the American Revolution. One of an unspecified number in a limited edition. --- Bound in full brown bonded leather covers with three raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Brown silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon placemarker. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- A gift-worthy, about-Fine copy: bright, tightly-bound and probably unread.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xx, 334 pages. Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Illustrated Classics
Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 86953
- Book number: 86953