The Pony Express; The Record of a Romantic Adventure in Business
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 7-319, [1] pp. Green cloth with black lettering on the front board and spine; orange topstain. Maps printed in black on the endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with seven plates. Adams Six-Guns 412. Howes C-291. Rader 657. A history of the critical mail delivery service: from its early days and the Congressional disputes over which routes were to be used, to the contract distribution, to the incidents different riders experienced along the trail, and a short biography of one rider, William Campbell. Chapman's narrative ends with the invention of the telegraph. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #000010525
Some offsetting to the rear pastedown; jacket is Very Good with a few traces of edge wear.
Price: $75.00