Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard Written by Himself by LEONARD, Zenas - 1934

Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1934. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. xxiv, 278pp, (1p ad). Top edge gilt. Foldout frontispiece map. Very good. Bit of edgewear and several spots to binding, with spine faintly sunned, else internally tight and fine; tiny mar at bottom of title page and expert archival repair to foldout map. Tight, handsome 32nd volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints. First of this edition of the journal of the most famed explorer, trader and mountain man (1809-57), first published in Pennsylvania in 1839. Laid in is the fine "With the Compliments of the Season" calling card of Donnelley president Thomas E. Donnelley.