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Route Across the Rocky Mountains.
by Johnson, Overton and Wm H Winter
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy cloth with gilt text and vignette; Very Good+ condition; no dust jacket.
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
Princeton, New Jersey:: Princeton University Press, 1932.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy cloth with gilt text and vignette; Very Good+ condition; no dust jacket.. 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall) . Appendix, index. Description: Includes one black and white plate (a facsimile of the title page of the original 1846 edition). Preface and notes by Carl L Cannon. Lannon W Mintz states, ''One of the best of the early overland narratives and one of the two contemporaneously printed accounts of the 1843 migration to Oregon. Only a few copies of the first edition are known to exist.'' (The Trail, number 259.)
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 062770
- Title
- Route Across the Rocky Mountains.
- Author
- Johnson, Overton and Wm H Winter
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: burgundy cloth with gilt text and vignette; Very Good+ condition; no dust jacket.
- Edition
- Reprint Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey:
- Date Published
- 1932.
- Pages
- 199 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (about 8.75 inches tall)
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About the Seller
The Bookworm
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Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
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Glossary
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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