Author: ZARA, Louis Title: This Land Is Ours
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 779pp. Map endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket faintly edgeworn. Historical novel "of the march across the Appalachians, the struggle to oust the Indian tribes from the Ohio country, and the winning of the old Northwest," tight and lovely. Handsomely signed and inscribed by Zara in blue inkon the half-title page "for Arnold F. Gates / with the very best wishes of the author / (this is a first -- with 'all' the errors) / Louis Zara / June 17, 1940 " -- a curious inscription, as this copy is an early but NOT a first printing! (Gates, 1914-93, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War Scholar.). .
Keywords: WESTERN AMERICANA American Literature Western Americana
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 1517
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