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Lot 89
Sale 5724 - Books and Manuscripts
Feb 17, 2022
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[Fine Bindings] Parkman, Francis The Oregon Trail, Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1892. First edition with Frederic Remington's illustrations (fourth overall edition). 8vo. xx, 411 pp. Profusely illustrated by Remington. Original full brown leather, decorated in gilt, red, black, and white, rebacked with original spine laid down; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; in fine full brown calf slip case, elaborately gilt, with red morocco onlay, slightly scuffed.
From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003).