The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life by Parkman, Francis - 1925

Harrisburg, PA: National Historical Society, 1993. Facsimile Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/None. American History.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1910. Leather-bound. Fair. Three quarter leather binding with marbled boards and endpapers, top edge gilt. Includes pictorial frontis with tissue guard and index. Missing parts of spine backstrap, else an intact copy.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1915. 381pp Cover is lightly scuffed Faint mark inside front cover Pages are clean and tight. Cloth Hardback. Very Good.

Oxford University Press, 1946. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1946. Reprinted. 279 pages. Brown dust jacket over dark red cloth. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and slight dog-eared pages throughout and visible tanning to text block edges. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have minor rubbing and light bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and book is forward leaning. Unclipped jacket with visible edge wear, ink marks, foxing and rubbing. Moderate sunning to spine and visible tearing to corners, edges and spine ends.

The Folio Society. Very Good- with No dust jacket as issued. 1973. Hardcover. Slipcover included and in good condition. Light foxing to the fore-edge of the pages. - Book is in great overall condition. No writing or major blemishes. Minor wear. ; 309 pages .

Modern Library, 1949-01-01. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/ACCEPTABLE. 0x0x0. Presumed 1st edition; 366 clean, unmarked, tightly-bound pages; dust jacket has small creases and tears; cover is clean and sturdy with lightly bumped corners

Boston, MA: Little Brown and Co, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Remington, Frederick. Gilt lettering & brown indian regalia decorations on tan covers. 8vo, 381pp. Top edge gilt. Prior owner's name on ffep.

New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1949. Hardcover. Text is clean. Pages tanning. Cover shows normal wear. Dust jacket shows obvious chipping at ends of spine and rubbing along folds. Spine of DJ lightly faded, staining to rear panel of DJ. ; Toledano binding style '8', Kent endpapers in grey, dust jacket style 'i', listing 405 titles. Homeschool curricula references: [Berquist, Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum, pg. 163 (9th grade) ][Logasa, McKinley Bibliographies Vol 2; Historical Non-Fiction (7th ed) , pg. 144 (United States - Nationalism and Democracy 1789-1829] [Logasa, McKinley Bibliographies Vol 2; Historical Non-Fiction (7th ed) , pg. 152 (United States - Expansion 1829-1861] [Hotchkiss, American Historical Fiction and Biography for Children and Young People, (The Expanding Frontier) 382] ; The Modern Library; Vol. 267.1; 366 pages .

(London: The Folio Society, 1973). With an Introduction by Martin Ridge and Lino-cuts by Peter Pendrey. 8vo; original cloth-backed decorative papered boards, with pictorial gilt spine; tinted top edge; papered slipcase; endpaper map; pp. 309; linocut illustrations. Trace of tape marks to free endpapers; cloth very slightly marked. Very good condition. First published in 1849, Parkman's account remains immensely popular. "From the time that some of its chapters were serialized in a magazine, [The Oregon Trail] has captivated its readers because it communicates; and even though Francis Parkman's literary mannerisms belong to the nineteenth century, he succeeds in bringing a twentieth-century reader into the presence of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains of the American West in the 1840s. Through his words Parkman's readers, for more than a century, have sensed with his eyes, ears and nostrils the existence of wolves and antelope, buffalo and settler, mountain man and Indian.… Read More

Heron, 1969. 8vo. Original gilt decorated faux leather (Fine). Pp. ix + 380, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).