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This fascinating text chronicles the travels of three men, one of whom was the author, throughout the western regions of North America. The frontispiece features photographs of the men, with the tissue guard intact. Volume has 12 plates in the text. Pages are clean and bright, intact except for one that is partially torn away, and several that are beginning to release from the binding. A good candidate for regluing/binding.

This slim volume has cloth-backed boards, linen-like spine with a faded paper label. Foxing on the front end paper, but otherwise very good. No markings or inscriptions, pages clean. Good copy!

This travel guide book is a follow up to an earlier publication by the same name. It is in very good condition, with a sound binding, black hardcover boards and spine with a rectangular title box at the top. Neither edges nor corners show wear. It has the original dust jacket, with a tear at the top edge, two missing strips on the front and slight wear at the top of the spine. The jacket is brightly colored and illustrted in stylized Deco figures by JAY. A mylar cover has been added. The front and rear panels of the jacket were trimmed on the corners (probably to facilitate insertion into the mylar) but the price is intact. The pages are clean. Owner's signature and date in ink on the first page. A very handsome copy.

This book has a tight, full-red Morroco binding, embossed front and back and with raised ridges on the spine. The gilt title also appears on the spine. The end papers and page edges are beautifully comb-marbled, retaining their bright colors well. Some rubbing along the spine, and on the corner edges, otherwise the binding is near fine, sound and except for a few small pencil marks on the first page of the novel, the pages are clean. The book has 13 full-page hand-colored steel engravings, 69 wood engravings in the text. Illustrator John Leech (1817-1864) produced cartoons for Punch and illustrated Dickens' Christmas Carol. The book is an unforgettable portrait of English country life and the hunt fraternity that has thrived while many other Victorian novels disappeared into obscurity.