E k barnes (1 Ergebnisse)

8vo, pp. 194; 6 folding maps (4 hand colored); original brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine chipped, cracked and with loss; edges rubbed, lacking front free endpaper, owner's signature on flyleaf and a couple small notes in pencil; text clean and sound and only a couple short gutter tears in the maps. A futurist history of the region, predicting that the Mississippi River valley would become the center of western civilization, with Independence, Kansas at the center, and that the central midwest would become the garden of the world if agriculture was increased there. Graff 1556; Howes G-192; Sabin 27468.…