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Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1909]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur I. Keller. Small 8vo. Burgundy blind-embossed cloth with ivory front board lettering. 402pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, full-page plates. Very good. Faint binding edgewear, else tight and internally fine; ownership signature on inner flyleaf; lacks dust jacket. Item #48552
Attractive, bright first edition of the first volume in this trilogy about westward expansion, the title referring to the 1845 slogan regarding the north latitude below which the U.S. should claim all rights from the British. One of the most popular novels from the prolific Iowa-born writer (1857-1923), who dedicates this volume to Theodore Roosevelt.
Price: $45.00