Author: CARRINGTON, Margaret I.
Title: Absaraka (Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka): Home of the Crows
Description: Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1950. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, rules and decoration. liii, 354pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece foldout map, tissue-guarded full-page plates. Good only. Spine a bit rubbed and sunned and lower board portions dampstained; endpapers a bit age toned, else tight and internally quite nice. Decent and quite tight 48th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints, Christmas keepsakes produced for customers and employees. The first edition was published in 1868 (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co.). From the collection of Illinois senator Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021) and before him of his father, Illinois governor and twice presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65). .

Keywords: Native American Western Americana


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