Author: SUMMERHAYES, Martha
Title: Vanished Arizona: Recollections of My Army Life
Description: Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1939. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, rules and decoration. ix, 337pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Good only. Spine slightly sunned; endpapers quite age toned, with inoffensive dampstaining evidence to preliminary leaves at both ends. A tight and decent 38th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints, keepsakes produced for customers and employees. Interestingly, front flyleaf bears bold ownership signature in black ink of Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate. "One of the most readable books about Arizona," notes Graff of the 1908 true first edition. GRAFF 4028. HOWES S 1132. .

Keywords: Military History Western Americana


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