A True Picture of Emigration
by BURLEND, Rebecca
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1936. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 16mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, rules and decoration. xxxi, 167pp, (1p ad). Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, two tissue-guarded illustrations, small foldout map. Very good. Spine quite faintly sunned; internally tight and near fine. Tight, handsome 34th volume in the annual "Lakeside Classics" series of Americana reprints. First of this edition of a noted chronicle of a British family's move to frontier illinois, first published anonymously in London in 1848 -- originally subtitled "Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; Being a Full and Impartial Account of the Various Difficulties and Ultimate Success of an English Family Who Emigrated from Barwick-in-Elmet, Near Leeds, in the Year 1831."
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44503
- Title
- A True Picture of Emigration
- Author
- BURLEND, Rebecca
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- R.R. Donnelley & Sons
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1936
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Illinois & Midwest;
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About the Seller
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....