Author: VESTAL, Stanley
Title: The Old Santa Fe Trail
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth with brown spine lettering and decoration, pictorial dust jacket. xii, 304pp. Illustrations, map/pictorial endpapers. Near fine/very good. Quite minor edgewear only to bright jacket; ownership signature on half-title page. Handsome first edition of this classic account -- here with a choice, relevant philatelic addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a fine First Day Cover, 6½" X 3½", cancelled in Santa Fe on 16 October 1946 with "First Day of Issue" so noted. Single 3-cent "Stephen Watts Kearny Expedition" stamp at upper right and an Art Craft printed cachet at left with Kearny's portrait, captioned "100th Anniversary of the Acquisition of New Mexico" and explanation: "In the Summer of 1846, General Kearny and His Missouri Volunteers Marched from Ft. Leavenworth Over the Old Santa Fe Trail and Took Possession of New Mexico." Typed recipient name/address of Ralph G. Newman (1912-98), founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. RITTENHOUSE 605. .

Keywords: Western Americana


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