A True Picture of Emigration by Quaife, Milo Milton (edited by) - 1936

Lakeside Press, 1936. Unknown. Used - Very Good/No Jacket. Lakeside Press with Donnelley and Sons, 1936. Very Good/No Jacket. Maroon cloth covers with gilt decoration and lettering, gilt from top page edge has worn off, uncut page edges, a couple tape marks on FFEP, fold out map inlcuded, produced for Employees only at Donnelley as Christmas edition 1936, 6.75x 4.5 with 167 page

Chicago:: R. R. Donnelley & Sons (Lakeside Press),. Very Good. 1936. Hardcover. B000BWML7M . Number 34 in the Lakeside Classics series. First edition thus. Very good in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and design, top edge gilt. No dust jacket, as issued. ; 167 pages .

Lakeside Press. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. (Travel, Description, Illinois) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1936. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and borders on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece. On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebecca’s narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be considering migration to America. It records the daily struggle and also the satisfactions of homesteading in the Old Northwest: life in a log cabin; food, clothes, and furniture of the… Read More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1936. First thus. Very good- in decorated red cloth covered boards with a gilt top edge to the text block and gilt text stamping on the spine and on the front board. The rear board is badly stained, the gilt logo on the front board has a nasty scratch and the cloth at the head and heel of the spine is lightly worn and rubbed. The end sheets are foxed in the hinge areas due to a reaction with the glues used in binding. A Lakeside Classic release of 1936. With the fold-out map intact following page 42 in fine condition. Originally published anonymously in England in 1848 as a pamphlet it describes the life of a woman and her family who left England in 1831 to settle in "the wilds of western Illinois." Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 167 pages including an index.

Paperback / softback. New.

Chicago, Illinois: The Lakeside Press, 1936. The Lakeside Classics. 1 fold-out map. 167 pages, clean and clear. White endpapers. Burgundy cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration. Faded spine with head and tail lightly worn, small scratches. VG+.