Description:
New York : Prentice-Hall, Inc., January 1954. Hardcover. Acceptable/Fair. Jacket shows moderate rubs and edgewear including several small chips and tears, cover shows mild edgewear and small corner bump to top front, spine straight, front hinge brittle and lax, pages and endpages lightly toned but clean and tight without marks or creases.
Wagon, Mules and Men How the Frontier Moved West by Eggenhoffer, Nick - 1961
by Eggenhoffer, Nick
Wagon, Mules and Men How the Frontier Moved West
by Eggenhoffer, Nick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
New York: Hastings House. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED and Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the half title page. Inscription reads "To H. C. Hitck, with very best regards. Nick Eggenhoffer Oklahoma City June 12, 71." Profusely illustrated account of how America expanded to the Pacific Ocean. Contains detailed drawings of horses, mules, oxen, freighters, carts, Conestoga wagons, prarie schooners, army wagons, buggies, saddles, blankets, tack, undercarriages, and other equipment used by the pioneers and US Army on the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails during westward expansion. Glue residue from a previous seller's removed price sticker on the front free endpaper. Text and illustrations clean and bright. Both ends of spine very gently bumped. Corners gently rubbed. Dust jacket is price clipped. Dust jacket is bright with little fading. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges, except for top of spine panel which has some wrinkling, and a small tear to the top edge of front cover. Dust jacket protected in Mylar. Ships same or next business day. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 184 pages; Signed by Author .
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Illustrator Nick Eggenhofer
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Hastings House
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1961