Item #00008698 Across the Wide Missouri. Bernard DeVoto.

Across the Wide Missouri

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo. [7], viii-xxvii, [1], 1-483, [1]. Bound in tan cloth with lettering stamped in red on the front board and the spine, map of the fur trade country on endpapers and pastedowns, numerous plates with 81 illustrations from paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and George Catlin, 32 in full color. Price of $10.00 on front jacket flap. Foreword (an account of the discovery of the Miller collection) by Mae Reed Porter. DeVoto's book on the mountain men during the period 1833-1838 is widely considered to be his best and most important book. The book was the winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize and was also quite popular with strong sales in the first few years after its publication (Firsts, September 2007, 30-32). Very Good / Very Good. Item #00008698

Very Good with mild toning to the textblock, light wear to the edges of the boards, and a name (Whitney F. Hoyt) written on the half-title page and the title page in a Very Good lightly edgeworn dust jacket with a tiny chip to the top right corner of the rear panel and rubbing and darkening to the folds.

Price: $150.00

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