Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller
Item #42954 Two Thousand Miles on Horseback. Sante Fe and Back. A Summer Tour Through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the Year 1866. James F. Meline.
Two Thousand Miles on Horseback. Sante Fe and Back. A Summer Tour Through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the Year 1866
Two Thousand Miles on Horseback. Sante Fe and Back. A Summer Tour Through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the Year 1866
Two Thousand Miles on Horseback. Sante Fe and Back. A Summer Tour Through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the Year 1866

Two Thousand Miles on Horseback. Sante Fe and Back. A Summer Tour Through Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico, in the Year 1866

New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1867. Ex-library, first edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. (x) 317pp. Green cloth boards with blind-stamped ruling on the front and back covers, gilt lettering and design on the spine. The work is travelogue by the author, detailing his experience journeying through parts of the midwest and western united states, during the summer of 1866. The book is a fascinating chronicle of American frontier, detailing the people, landscape and daily life of the time, and is organized chronologically and divided up into letters from the author, dating from June 1st - September 10th 1866. Included is an appendix section at the rear and a detailed 18x14" fold-out map showing the authors journey, at the front. Binding with some light scratches, rippling and/or smudges to the covers. Light rubbing to extremities and along the hinges of the spine. Head and tail of the spine with light bumping and some small closed tears. Book block cocked and a bit shaky. Interior with starting at the front cover front free endpapers, table of contents, p.83, 128,191, and 272. Pages 131-142 nearly detached. ix of the table of contents is detached but present, as is the fold-out map at the front. Library ink stamps on the title page, and at pages 1 and 35. Sporadic minor smudges and/or water spots on a few pages throughout. Binding in good-, interior in good condition overall. g- to g. Item #42954

Price: $125.00

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