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Commerce of the Prairies

Commerce of the Prairies by Gregg, Josiah

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Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company
Title
Commerce of the Prairies
Author
Gregg, Josiah
Seller
The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with only New York in imprint), complete with large folding map. One of the most valuable and comprehensive sources for understanding pioneer life in the Great Plains and Southwest. The large folding map is the first to display the Staked Plains of Texas. Hailed as a cartographic landmark, it includes the locations of forts, military roads, and trading posts. It also identifies the Oregon Trail and Native American settlements, and traces the routes of the earlier explorers Boone, Long, Pike, and Cooke. Convinced that a journey west was necessary to restore his health, Josiah Gregg, in 1831 set out from Missouri on the first of what was to become eight journeys across the prairies. An acute observer, Gregg took careful notes of the geography and geology of the Southwest, and the attitudes and culture of the people (including particularly valuable insights into the Indians of Texas and New Mexico). Over a decade later, "Gregg began compiling his travel notes into a readable manuscript and in the summer of 1843 went to New York to secure a publisher. His Commerce of the Prairies, which came out in two volumes in 1844, was an immediate success. It went through two new editions in 1845, later a fourth and fifth edition, and in 1857 appeared in a sixth edition under a different title. The book, which also had a large sale in England and was translated into French and German, remains the cornerstone for all studies of the Santa Fe Trail" (H. Allen Anderson, Handbook of Texas Online). New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. Octavo, original gilt-stamped brown cloth. Two volumes. A clean, bright, un-restored copy in the original cloth: text clean with only light foxing. Scarce and fragile map fine save for one closed tear at the far right hand side, starting at the main horizontal crease and continuing for 2" diagonally upward and to the left; some loss to head and tail of spine of volume I, bindings unusually clean and bright.
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Almanach des Dames pour l'An 1823; Almanach Lyrique

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Title
Almanach des Dames pour l'An 1823; Almanach Lyrique
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Turbingu and Paris: Chez I. G. Cotta; Chez Truettel & Wurtz, 1822. First Edition. Cartonnage, Slipcase. Very Good. 12mo. (13 x 9 cm.) 238 pp. Six engraved plates. Scarce, with only two copies located on OCLC. Soiling on the binding and more on the slipcase. Otherwise, quite clean and tight.
Tarzan on Mars

Tarzan on Mars by [Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Bloodstone, John

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA
Title
Tarzan on Mars
Author
[Burroughs, Edgar Rice] Bloodstone, John
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[n.p.]: [n.p.], [n.d.]. Paperback. Fine. With a reproduction of a letter Bloodstone, the pseudonym of Stuart J. Byrne, sent to editor Ray Palmer during the original submission. Fine. Comb-bound with card covers, illustrated at the front. Firmly bound, clean internally. An unofficial publication of John Bloodstone's 1954 Edgar Rice Burroughs pastiche.
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Tiny Alice: A Play by ALBEE, Edward

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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Title
Tiny Alice: A Play
Author
ALBEE, Edward
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY: Atheneum. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a near fine (minor edge wear at the crown of the spine) dust jacket. .