Our Western Border: Its Life, Forays, Scouts, Combats, Massacres, Red Chiefs, Adventures, Captivities, Pioneer Women, One Hundred Years Ago
by McKnight, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
J.C. McCurdy & Co. Used - Good. 1875. Hardcover. Green decorated cloth with gilt stamped lettering. Octavo. xi & 756 pp. Some shelf wear and noticeable scuffing to boards, corners frayed and bumped. Rebound with new endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown. Previous owner's inscription to front flyleaf. Mild toning and some smudging to pages. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: American History).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C56223
- Title
- Our Western Border: Its Life, Forays, Scouts, Combats, Massacres, Red Chiefs, Adventures, Captivities, Pioneer Women, One Hundred Years Ago
- Author
- McKnight, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- J.C. McCurdy & Co
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