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Shadow of a Continent: The Prize That Lay to the West - 1776
by Larry L. Meyer
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0910118620
- ISBN 13
- 9780910118620
- Seller
-
WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
Item Price
A$12.27A$8.59
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About This Item
Palo Alto, CA: American West Publishing Company, 1975 American West Publishing Company, Palo Alto, CA. 1975. Hardcover. First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; light bumping to front tips. DJ: Near Fine; NOT Price Clipped ($14.95); several small bumps to edges. Red leatherette boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 383 pp 4to. When the bells rang in Philadelphia in July of 1776, the colonists and the kings in London, Paris, and Madrid, knew the real prize lay in the west, far beyond the Alleghenies. Most books have ignored the importance of the West was to the Colonial history of the United States until now. Long before 1776, much had leaked out to fire the imaginations and desires of Europeans and colonials- that gave added thrust to the Revolution. This book will cast a new light on the Colonial period and the newly acquired West. Laid in is a copy of American West's Fall 1975 Catalog and a mailing envelope for the book order slip in the catalog. A clean very presentable copy.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015830
- Title
- Shadow of a Continent: The Prize That Lay to the West - 1776
- Author
- Larry L. Meyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0910118620
- ISBN 13
- 9780910118620
- Publisher
- American West Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Palo Alto, CA
- Date Published
- 1975
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- Colonial America, American Revolution, The American West, Westward Growth, trans-Mississippi West, Mississippi River, Missouri River, Spanish Explorers, manifest destiny, Westward Expansion, Indian tribes, Indian Wars,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
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WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tail
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- New
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- Gilt
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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