Guns at the Forks; Louisbourg: Key to a Continent; Sutter's Fort; Flags at the Straits; Fort Laramie and the Sioux Indians; Forts of the Upper Missouri; Thundergate: The Forts of Niagara; Vincennes: Portal to the West; Sentinel of the Plains: Fort Leavenworth and the American West; Gateway to the Gold Fields; The Forts of Mackinac
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall, Inc. [1965] [1966] [1967] [1968] [1973], 1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1973. First edition. Hardcover. 9 vol. 8vo. For full pagination, please inquire. Quarter black cloth with gold decorations and lettering on the spine over green cloth: orange topstain; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine over red cloth: blue-gray topstain; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine over brown cloth; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine over blue cloth; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine over green cloth; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine over pink cloth; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine over lime green cloth; quarter black cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the spine over brown cloth; quarter black cloth with gold lettering on the spine over red paper boards. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns in all volumes. Price of $6.95 on the front flap of the first four dust jackets; price of $7.95 on three of the dust jackets. Most of the volumes are illustrated with eight leaves of black and white photographs, one has additional full-page maps, Fort Laramie with twelve leaves of black and white photographs, Sentinel with 16 leaves of black and white photographs. With bibliographies and indices. Series edited by Stewart H. Holbrook. Town's End Books and Bindery, "Titles in The American Forts Series". A complete set of the first editions of the American Forts series. Very Good to Near Fine. Item #000012920
The books and jackets range from Very Good to Near Fine. One book with an owner's stamp on the front pastedown, one with a sticker ghost on the free front endpaper. Two jackets are price-clipped and some have edge wear, the Sentinel volume has a tape repair to its front panel.
Price: $350.00