Author: Binns, Archie
Title: The Roaring Land
Description: New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, (1942). (1942). New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, (1942). (1942). Good. - Octavo, green cloth titled in gilt in a price-clipped dust wrapper. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed. The dust jacket is rubbed, chipped & dampstained with several tears repaired with scotch tape. 284 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece. There is a gift inscription and an owner's ink name & address & book label on the front pastedown. There is a narrow strip of dark glue staining the bottom edge of the front and rear endpapers, resulting in some sticking of these to the pastedowns. The rear endpaper is lightly creased. There is a band of lighter staining across the middle of each of the endpapers, as well as the half-title & a rear blank. Good in a fair dust wrapper.

A publisher's note on the leaf following the half-title reads: "This copy of The Roaring Land is one of a special Washington State Edition autographed by the author." Archie Binns' signature appears below the notice. Binns tells the story of the exploration and development of the American Northwest. Good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; NORTHWEST; THE ROARING LAND; ARCHIE BINNS; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; PIONEERS; EXPLORATION; INDIAN WARS; FARMING; LOGGING; ALASKAN GOLD RUSH; SMUGGLING; OPIUM; TRADING POSTS; WASHINGTON STATE EDITION.

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