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A RIDE WITH KIT CARSON; Across the Great American Desert and Through the Rocky Mountains
by BREWERTON, George D
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- Fine
- Condition
- Fine/Custom Clear Mylar
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
Palo Alto: Lewis Osborne, 1969. First Thus. Cloth. Fine/Custom Clear Mylar. 110 pages. Introduction by GeorgeStewart. Illustrated primarily from vintage drawings. Map front endpapers; Loose folded map laid in at rear. Edition limited to 1400 copies, of which this is an un-numbered copy. 7 1/4" x 11". Tan cloth with gilt spine titling. Brewerton's narrative originally appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine of August 1853. It presents an accurate portrait of Kit Carson and describes their journey from Los Angeles to Taos over what came to be known as the Old Spanish Trail. A Fine copy, now in a custom clear mylar protective jacket. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books via media mail to any United States address.
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- Bookseller
- Hardy Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1985
- Title
- A RIDE WITH KIT CARSON; Across the Great American Desert and Through the Rocky Mountains
- Author
- BREWERTON, George D
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Custom Clear Mylar
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Lewis Osborne
- Place of Publication
- Palo Alto
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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Hardy Books is a rare and out-of-print book and ephemera seller located in Nevada City, California, in the heart of the California Northern Mines Gold Country. We are members of the Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) and follow the IOBA Code of Ethics.
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