Trail-Makers of the Middle Border [Signed & Inscribed]
- SIGNED
- New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Very Good. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. First Edition. Signed by the author in half title with inscription "Inscribed for H.C. Taylor (?), also a Son of the Middle Border, by the author, Hamlin Garland, New York City, Nov. 18."
Octavo; 426pp. Illustrations throughout. Red topstain. Publisher's black cloth with red and gilt lettering and decoration. Boards edgeworn, with a good bit of superficial biopredation to cloth and a couple smudges to back. Gilt of spine lettering almost completely rubbed away, though the color to lettering and illustration on front is still clean and bright. Dampstain affecting top corner of a number of pages, not touching text. Opens easily between a few gatherings, but binding is secure. Pages unmarked.
The third in Garland's Middle Border series, the second of which won the Pulitzer for Biography in 1922.
Octavo; 426pp. Illustrations throughout. Red topstain. Publisher's black cloth with red and gilt lettering and decoration. Boards edgeworn, with a good bit of superficial biopredation to cloth and a couple smudges to back. Gilt of spine lettering almost completely rubbed away, though the color to lettering and illustration on front is still clean and bright. Dampstain affecting top corner of a number of pages, not touching text. Opens easily between a few gatherings, but binding is secure. Pages unmarked.
The third in Garland's Middle Border series, the second of which won the Pulitzer for Biography in 1922.