Search Results: forward the nation by peattie donald culross

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. VG-/VG-. Spine tad cocked; bit of shelfwear; bit of foxing; PO inkstamp ffep. DJ w/ some rubbing/edgewear; few small chips/CTs; in new Brodart protector. 000017382

Armed Services Editions. New York: Editions For The Armed Services. , 1942+. H-218 very good- fine paperback,

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Very Good Hardcover, 1942, no dust jacket. gift inscription written in ink on half-title, first edition . First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover.

New York: G. P. PUTMAN'S SONS, 1942. 3rd impression. Jacket has some chipping t corners and is price clipped but still clean. "Forward the Nation is simple, honest, great; the work of a naturalist, an historian, an American". The Detroit Free Press. The story of Lewis and Clark and their expedition with extra attention given to Sacajawea. In mylar. Hard to find title, out of print.. 3rd Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: G. P. Putnam, 1942. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Printing.. New York: G. P. Putnam, 1942. First Edition, Second Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. Second printing (so stated) in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Clean beige buckram cloth boards with brown lettering, green leaf on cover and spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with map-illustrated endpapers (brief previous owner inscription at top edge of front free endpaper). Lengthy New York Times book review of this title from 1942 is laid in. 281 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped (2.50 on front inside flap), a few short closed edge tears; nice photo portrait of author on rear panel; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. The story of the great 3-year expedition of Lewis & Clark westward to the Pacific Ocean and back again..

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. Very good 1942 hardcover with very good dust jacket. Jacket lightly worn and chipped.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Armed Services Editions. New York: Editions For The Armed Services. , 1942+. H-218 very good- fine paperback,

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Good in Good dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. Gift Inscription/Tear at Top Spine/Slightly Soiled. .

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. First printing. Review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid in. A fine, apparently unread copy, with a small scuffed spot on the front pastedown. The dust jacket is price-clipped. The spine ends are frayed, with two tiny chips. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1942. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. First edition, near fine cloth hardcover shows touch of soil to page egdes, scotch tape shadows at top and bottom corners of both front and rear endpapers where protective wrapper to jacket had been taped and some other light trace wear, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) that shows some light shelf wear. 281 pages with endpaper maps. Still a very nice copy of this work where-in the author "..turns to the Lewis & Clark expedition and finds, in the Indian girl who guided it, a wilderness heroine to match his hero, Audubon.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1942. Review Copy (ARC). Fine/VG, DJ both front and rear panels (top and bottom) lightly water stained, but still fully intact with DJ protected in mylar. ; 8vo, gray weave cloth, top edge pages tinted dark green, map eps, DJ, 281pp. Advance reading copy with DJ. Includes "Two Excerpts from Forward the Nation" folded pamphlet and publisher's ARC card, both loosely laid in. .

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons [1942].. First edition. 8vo. Map endpapers. Dust jacket designed by C.V. John (unclipped). A fine, fresh copy. 281 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1942. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Inscribed on the title page in blue ink: "Cordially inscribed by Donald Culross Peattie." With a flowing brown fountain pen is also written: "For my dear Cousin Barbara Cook Taggart, 1602 National Ave, Rockford, Illinois, Nov 21st 1958." It is unclear whether this is a separate hand or Culross's own from on an earlier occasion--it looks exceedingly similar, and it's not otherwise signed. Barbara Cook Taggart is the granddaughter of Mortimer Cook who made a fortune in Santa Barbara and was the town's first mayor, and then founded Sedro on the Skagit River in Washington. So there is a northwest connection, circuitously. Culross describes this book as not a history, yet factually accurate, which I take to mean an early example of narrative nonfiction (creative nonfiction that reads like fiction). Uncommon or scarce signed. Seventh printing. Blue boards with some wear to corners and top and bottom of spine. Creasing at… Read More