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Good. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. No dust jacket. Brown boards bright and shiny with light scuffs. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear. Ships within 24-48 hours via media mail.
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Reprint of the rare first edition of 1903, complete with the notes and maps. One of 1, 500 copies. 2 volumes in one. xiv, 461pp. 15 illustrations, map. Notes, index. Brown cloth, gilt. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. Joseph La Barge was a pioneer steamboat captain, navigator and Indian trader. For fifty years he was identified with the commerce of the Missouri Valley and opened the Blackfoot country to trade and civilization. This fine work, illustrated with early photographs and prints, provides an intimate picture of the importance of the Missouri River as the primary line of transportation in the Missouri Valley. [Graff: 697; Howes I: C-391; Howes II: C-399].
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9 x 6.5, cloth, 461 pp, illustr, index, original ribbed blue cloth, fore corners gently bumped, light wear to corners, small nick to spine volume 1, else sound FIRST ED. LIMITED TO 950 CC.
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2 volumes. First edition. One of 950 copies. Pp. xiv, 248 + [6], [249]-461. Frontis in each volume, 14 illustrations including a map. Publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt spines. Corners and spine ends show rubbing, else a very fine, bright set. La Barge was a pioneer steamboat captain, navigator and Indian trader. For fifty years he was identified with the commerce of the Missouri Valley and opened the Blackfoot country to trade and civilization. Like the author's The American Fur Trade of the Far West, this work is very elusive, scholarly and desirable. [Graff: 697; Howes I: C-391; Howes II: C-399].
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Very good. First Edition. Two volumes. Only 950 copies of this set were printed. Dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Spines lightly sun-faded, minor rubbing at edges. Otherwise VG. Orignal owner's small plates on front pastedowns. Pages/boards clean, NO foxing or markings. Bindings sturdy. Protected in removable archival plastic sleeve. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
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Fine. 1st edition limited to 950 copies. xiv, 248; [vii], [249]-461pp. Two volumes Octavo in original blue cloth, gilt top edge, others uncut with 12 plates (including frontispiece portrait in each volume). Very minor wear along top edge of Volume One, still a fine copy in original bindings. fine.