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Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine. TEG. Privately owned. Embossed stamp to 3 preliminary endpapers. Gilt lettering to spine of deep red, cloth-covered boards. Gilt debossed publisher's Indian head "pressmark" to front board. Photograph of J. W. Spencer to frontispiece with tissue overlay. Woodblock prints of J. M. D. Burrows and R. M. Prettyman. Clean, tight, bright. 315 pp with index. Lakeside Classics present first-person narratives of American history and narratives by Americans with experiences beyond our borders. The first narrative is by J. W. Spencer entitled Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in the Mississippi Valley, first published in 1872. The second narrative, Fifty Years in Iowa : Being the Personal Reminiscences of J. M D. Burrows, concerning the Men and Events, Social Life, Industrial Interests, Physical Development, and Commercial Progress of Davenport and Scott County, During the Period from 1838 to 1888.