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All four volumes of this complete set are in very good+ condition in their original, full brown cloth covered boards with gilt decorations and text on the spines and a gilt design of a teepee on the front boards and with the top edge of the text blocks gilt. Each is a small quarto of 9 3/8 by 6 3/8 inches with rubbing, wear and short closed tear to the cloth at the heads and heels of the spines. None of the volumes have dust jackets. Wright Howes in his bibliography: U.S.Iana states that the Alleghany Edition is the best edition of this title of the many that were published. Volume I (From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776) contains 352 pages and is followed by a fold-out color map of the West During the Revolution. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 25 plates. Volume II (From the Alleghaniees to the Mississippi 1777-1783) contains 427 pages including an index to volumes I and II which is followed by two fold-out color maps of The Colonies and The States. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 plates. Volume III (The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790) contains 339 pages including an index which is followed by a fold-out map of the Western Land Claims At The Close of the Revolution. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 24 plates. Volume IV (Louisiana and the Northwest 1791-1807) contains 363 pages including an index which is followed by a fold-out, color map Showing The First Explorations Of The Great West. It is illustrated with a frontispiece and 25 plates. The book plates printed on the front paste-downs is not completed by any prior owner. (Cole & Vail, A11.m.; Howes, R-433). Seller Inventory # TB32084
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Winning of the West
Publisher: G. P. Putnam's Sons,, New York:
Publication Date: 1900
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: Alleghany Edition.
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