John woods paul m angle (12 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First thus, very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and publisher's colophon in gilt on front board. The blue cloth is a little spotted; there is faint evidence of an erasure on the front endpaper. Includes an appendix, an index, and a four page list of all the 66l titles in this series from 1903 to 1968; 242 pages.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. a nice, clean copy, 12mo, 242 pages, blue cloth with gilt titles and decorations, issued without dust jacket, top edge gilt, first thus.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good. Foxing on page edges. Spotting on back and front boards.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 242pp; Index; b/w maps. Contents clean and unmarked; no ownership or library markings. Navy cloth HC with gilt design and lettering.

Fine condition. Illustrated by Maps. Reprint edition. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. xxxv, 242 p. 18 cm. The Lakeside classics. Illustrations. Index. First published in 1822 under title: Two years' residence in the settlement on the English prairie. For perhaps a dozen years a tract of land in southeasten Illinois, containing no more than 100 square miles (near the junction of the Wabash and Ohio rivers), was known to more people in the United States, Great Britain, and western Europe than almost any other place in North America. Called the English Prairie or the English Settlement, it was the principal subject of seven books published between 1817 and 1830, and received extended treatment in at least ten others in the same period." As a contemporary account of the heyday of this famous settlement, Wood's book is unsurpassed. Very good in good dust jacket. Compliments card from Gaylord Donnelley laid in. Waxed paper dust wrapper present/folded. Presumed first edition/first printing thus.…

1968. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 242pp. Navy blue cloth with gilt cover device and gilt lettering to the spine. Top edge gilt, notes, diagrams, index. The spine is lightly cocked. "For perhaps a dozen years a tract of land in southeastern Illinois, containing no more than 100 square miles (near the junction of the Wabash and Ohio rivers), was known to more people in the United States, Great Britain, and western Europe than almost any other place in North America" - from the Historical Introduction. Originally published as Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie in the Illinois Country, United States. With an Account of its Animal and Vegetable Productions, Agriculture, &c. &c. Time Period 19th Century. Edited by Paul M. Angle. Locale: English Prairie of Illinois; Illinois--United States. Series: Lakeside Classics. (History--United States, Agriculture--United States, History--United States, Settlement--United States).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A nice first Keepsake edition/first printing from the publishers to friends for Christmas and New Years 1968, in Fine condition. From the collection of Betty Anderson, legendary art director of publisher Knopf in the late 20th century as evidenced by her (small and unobtrusive) inventory number; This book is a compilation of diary entries and letters written by John Woods while he resided on the English Prairie of Illinois from 1839 to 1841. Woods' observations of life in the Prairie region are enlightening and provide an interesting perspective on frontier life. His descriptions of Native Americans, the natural environment, and the people he encountered are interesting and informative. This book is a valuable resource for students studying the American Frontier.; The Lakeside Classics; 66; B&W Illustrations; 8vo.…

Condizione: Near Fine. Reissue. Hardcover cloth, navy blue with gilt, no jacket as issued. An account of life on the Illinois prairies in the early nineteenth century. The author was an English farmer of some substance who was attracted to the opportunities for himself and his family in the United States, especially in the Midwest. The family traveled down the Ohio River then upland into Illinois territory to settle on the frontier.…