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BLUE CLOTH. Condition: FINE-. Dust Jacket Condition: NO DUST JACKET (AS ISSUED). FIRST EDITION THUS. GOLD GILT LETTERING ON SPINE AND GOLD GILT DONNELLY INDIAN PORTRAIT LOGO ON COVER, 242 PAGES, TOP EDGE GILT, 5 ILLUSTRATIONS, INDEX. THIS IS VOLUME 66 OF THE ANNUAL LAKESIDE CLASSICS.

Fine condition. Illustrated by Maps. Reprint edition. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. xxxv, 242 p. 18 cm. The Lakeside classics. Illustrations. Index. First published in 1822 under title: Two years' residence in the settlement on the English prairie. For perhaps a dozen years a tract of land in southeasten Illinois, containing no more than 100 square miles (near the junction of the Wabash and Ohio rivers), was known to more people in the United States, Great Britain, and western Europe than almost any other place in North America. Called the English Prairie or the English Settlement, it was the principal subject of seven books published between 1817 and 1830, and received extended treatment in at least ten others in the same period." As a contemporary account of the heyday of this famous settlement, Wood's book is unsurpassed. Very good in good dust jacket. Compliments card from Gaylord Donnelley laid in. Waxed paper dust wrapper present/folded. Presumed first edition/first printing thus.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A nice first Keepsake edition/first printing from the publishers to friends for Christmas and New Years 1968, in Fine condition. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number; This book is a compilation of diary entries and letters written by John Woods while he resided on the English Prairie of Illinois from 1839 to 1841. Woods' observations of life in the Prairie region are enlightening and provide an interesting perspective on frontier life. His descriptions of Native Americans, the natural environment, and the people he encountered are interesting and informative. This book is a valuable resource for students studying the American Frontier.; The Lakeside Classics; 66; B&W Illustrations; 8vo.…

Condition: Near Fine. Reissue. Hardcover cloth, navy blue with gilt, no jacket as issued. An account of life on the Illinois prairies in the early nineteenth century. The author was an English farmer of some substance who was attracted to the opportunities for himself and his family in the United States, especially in the Midwest. The family traveled down the Ohio River then upland into Illinois territory to settle on the frontier.…