Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc.
by POWERS, STEPHEN
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- very good
- Hardcover
- first
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- Very Good
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About This Item
Columbian Book Company, 1872. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Original green cloth, water spot approximately 1 inch in diameter below the vignette on the front cover, boards showing on tips and some edges, hinges strong, text clean and unmarked, overall a very good minus copy. First edition. Zamorano Eighty 61: "A highly interesting book by the first man, probably, who ever walked alone from one coast to the other. The author, an amateur ethnologist, describes vividly the country through which he traveled. Of particular value are his descriptions of southern California. He walked from Raleigh, N.C., to San Francisco, a distance of 3,556 miles. So keen were his observations of the Indian tribes of California that his notes were published some five years later by the U.S. Department of Interior.Afoot and Alone appeared in but one edition, but it became so popular and was so widely read that it is today almost impossible to find a fine copy." Cowan p. 498. Graff 3339. Howes P537 citing two editions.
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- Darwin Labordo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 670
- Title
- Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc.
- Author
- POWERS, STEPHEN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Columbian Book Company
- Date Published
- 1872
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