FULTON, Maurice Garland (editor)

Diary & Letters of Josiah Gregg Book II: Excursions in Mexico & California 1847 - 1850 [Flap Reads "Book II"]

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958. Second Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Stout 8vo. Pp. xvii, 396. Illustrated with a black & white portrait photo and document facsimiles including sketch maps. Introduction by Paul Horgan. With sources and index. Beige cloth, titles stamped in gilt in brown panel on the spine, signature facsimile in brown on the cover: corners bumped, leaves crisp and bright, binding tight. Bookseller tag on rear pastedown ("Cobean Stationery Co. Roswell New Mexico"). In the two color illustrated dust jacket with price intact on the front flap: edges rubbed with short closed tears. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #7012

From the jacket flap: "The definitive observations of the Santa Fé trader, scholar, and scientist who is generally considered to be the most reliable contemporary historian of the West in the eighteen thirties and forties." The second of two volumes comprising No. 7 in the publisher's American Exploration and Travel Series.

Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Price: $30.00