Description
The Standard Library Edition of Theodore Roosevelt’s The Winning Of The West, published in 1906.
Octavo, [four volumes], [xxiii], [1], 352pp, [1pp ads]; [iv], 427pp, [2pp ads]; [v], 339pp, [2pp ads]; [vi], 363pp, [2pp ads]. Green cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “Standard Library Edition” on the title page. Frontispiece portrait with tissue cover in each volume. Includes four fold-out maps, affixed to rear panel of each volume. Light wear at head of spine, wear at tips of boards. Top edge gilt. Solid text block, numerous unopened leaves. (Wheelock, 13)
This “Standard Library” edition was published using the same plates as the “Daniel Boon Edition” and the “Alleghany Edition” from 1900. (Cole & Vail, A11.1(m))
Includes four volumes: From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776; From the Alleghenies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783; Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 and Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807.
