Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1939. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, rules and decoration. ix, 337pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, illustrations. Good only. Spine slightly sunned; endpapers quite age toned, with inoffensive dampstaining evidence to preliminary leaves at both ends. A tight and decent 38th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints, keepsakes produced for customers and employees. Interestingly, front flyleaf bears bold ownership signature in black ink of Adlai E. Stevenson II (1900-65), Illinois governor and twice Democratic presidential candidate. "One of the most readable books about Arizona," notes Graff of the 1908 true first edition. GRAFF 4028. HOWES S 1132.

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Bookseller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 45966
Title: Vanished Arizona: Recollections of My Army Life
Author: SUMMERHAYES, Martha
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1939
Bookseller catalogs: Books; Western Americana; Military History;

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
Top Edge Gilt: Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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...