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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. Third Edition. Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, Commerce of the Prairies has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Greggs masterpiece is not for specialists alone: its vivid descriptions of desert mirages, wagon caravans, Indian alarms and attacks, buffalo hunts, and other early Western phenomena will delight all who wish to know the country as it was before the great herds of buffalo were slaughtered and the roving Indians confined to reservations, before the landscape was transformed by barbed wire, domestic cattle, plowed fields, and modern highways. Paperback. Illustrated. 469pp., index. Full refund if not satisfied.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Acceptable. First Edition. First printing stated. Solid binding with bumping to bottom fore-corners. Foldout map is intact. Text and images unmarked. The lightly soiled dust jacket is edge worn with creasing and chipping, a small closed tear to front panel, in a mylar cover.…

1958. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. xxxviii, 469+. 8vo. Volumes I & II. Reprint of the first edition (1844), with foot-notes that indicate the changes made by Gregg in his second edition (1845). Black boards with gilt title to spine. Light edge wear, front board softly bowed and there is a name penned to the front free endpaper, which is covered by the dust jacket flap. Else is clean, solid, tight, and bright with index, bibliography, B / W historical illustrations, glossary and fold-out map.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Tan cloth, lettered in red. Mild shelf wear, spine panel a bit toned, 3 of 4 corners bumped and slightly exposed. ix,438 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates, maps. Slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. American Explorations & Travel Series, Vol. 17. Howes G 41, later issue. Early reprint of Grigg's classic, first issued in 1844. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.…

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.