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Doubleday New York 1956, First NF/NF Map Endpapers. Dark green boards with gilt titles on front and spine. No marks, no names, no stickers. Tight and clean, like new. DJ has price of $6.95. Colorful, illustrated dj depicting mountains and an orange sky. The book is a colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed or were tamed by t the geographers call the true Far West - California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. In the cast are Spaniards, Russians, Yankees, southerners; Sutter, whose dream of an idyllic retreat in the foothills of paradise was shattered by the Gold Rush; John C. Fremont, Mark Twain, Brigham Young, Ralston's Ring, and the Big Four; the Silver Kings, H.A. W. Tabor and Baby Doe, the Rose of Sharon and Eilley Orrum, and scores more.

Aventine Press 1931 VG/none. Blue hard boards with gold title to spine. Spine of book has some spotting. Corners and edges slightly bumped. Clean, binding a little on the loose side. No marks, no stickers, etc.Author Herman Melville sailed on the first day of January 1941 (his birthday) in a whaling vesell "Acushnet" the "Dolly" of this book. A part of his voyage, which was to last 4 years was recorded in his first book - this one - TYPEE in 1846. Also in "OMOO" i 1847 and later in "Moby Dick" , 1851.