ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (TWO VOLUMES)

Author: Irving, Washington
Title: ASTORIA, OR ANECDOTES OF AN ENTERPRISE BEYOND THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (TWO VOLUMES)
Publication: New York: C.P. Putnam's Sons, 1897

Description: Hardcover. Two volume set. Octavo, 8.9 in. x 6 in., pp. (Vol I) xxi, [3] 389; (Vol II) xvi, [2], 391. The "Tacoma Edition." Illustrated with many black and white engravings and photographs on heavy paper, with captioned tissue-guards. Cream cloth-covered boards with decorative feather and arrowhead design, and gilt title, to front and spine. Gilt topstain. Rough trimmed fore- and bottom-edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Fingerprint smudges to boards. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedowns. Second previous owner's signature to front flyleaf of Volume I only. Age-toning to pages. Original silk ribbons worn and laid in. Contemporary burgundy cloth dustjackets with gilt title to spine. Light fraying and rubbing to top and bottom edges of cloth dustjackets. Very Good / Very Good.

Stories told by the great American short-story writer about John Jay Astor's adventures west of the Rocky Mountains.

Bookplate displays a drawn scorpion and the name "Allen + Margery Boyden." The Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency" in southwestern Oregon nurtures nature writers on a 92-acre ranch in the forest of the Klamath Mountains.

Seller ID: 86308

Subject: Americana, Western

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