The Wilderness Road

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1947. First Edition. Near fine in red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and the same on the front board. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good+, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the upper edge of the spine area with two small chips at the upper corners of the same. Signed by the author on the second free end page. The first volume in The American Trails Series by Bobbs-Merrill. It is fitting that this book examines the first trail opened to begin the settlement of the west through what is now Virgina, Tennessee and Kentucky. A very handsome, tight and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. (Inventory #: TB29395)