Item #557 The Illinois (Rivers of America), with autograph letter from author laid in. James Gray.
The Illinois (Rivers of America), with autograph letter from author laid in
The Illinois (Rivers of America), with autograph letter from author laid in

The Illinois (Rivers of America), with autograph letter from author laid in

New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., (1940). First edition. Illustrated by Aaron Bohrod. Full cloth. Octavo. x, 355 pages. Very good in a fine dust jacket. Bound in burgundy cloth over boards with aqua topstain, illustrated endpapers. Publisher's series device stamped in blind on upper board. Spine stamped in gilt and aqua. Slight tidemarking at lower margins of boards and spine. / Jacket has a few slight rubs to extremities.

The 11th volume in the Rivers of America Series, as planned and begun by Constance Lindsay Skinner. The story of the Illinois River, from the early French explorers to the mid-20th century. Gray describes young Abraham Lincoln through the eyes of his contemporaries as he takes a riverboat down the Illinois and Mississippi for his first employer. FITZGERALD I1. Laid in is an enthusiastic and warm handwritten letter from James Gray in reply to a prior owner's request for an autograph to put with the book. Written on letterhead of the St. Paul DIspatch / St. Paul Pioneer Press.

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