The Wake of the Prairie Schooner
by Paden, Irene D
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: MacMillan, 1943. Book. Illus. by Illustrated by the Author. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Clean stated First Printing in original dust jacket. Red cloth boards with white lettering on spine. No fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean - no names, writing or bookplates. Illustrated with 30 pen-and-ink drawings by the author. 514 pages with Index. Clean dust jacket has tiny bit of corner wear, price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Authentic saga of the emigrant trails across America's plains to the Pacific Coast, from its beginning in 1812, through the thick of the greatest migration in all history, to its deterioration after completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869l.
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034466
- Title
- The Wake of the Prairie Schooner
- Author
- Paden, Irene D
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by the Author
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1943
- Keywords
- Prairie Schooners, Americana, American history, American pioneers, emigrant trails, first edition, Irene D. Paden, western U.S. pioneers, settlers
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; American History;
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- Jacket
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- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....