You make me turn green...
Given that the first White Woman arrived in Prince George in 1912, the
chances of finding any book such as that locally are impossibly small.
One
reason I keep to modern and hypermodern firsts is that with luck they can
be
found locally, or within a thousand miles or so...
Willow
"RF" <fwdixon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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Mar 10, 12:36 am, "Francis A. Miniter" <famini...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> This weekend I had the good fortune to pick up a copy of William
Prescott's
> two volume "The Conquest of Peru" (Harper & Brothers). Volume 1 is 1848,
so
> presumably a second printing, but Volume 2 is dated 1847, and lacks a
period
> on p. 467, l. 20, after the word "integrity", which is apparently a
first
> issue point, according to Van Allen Bradley. By coincidence, two days
> earlier I had purchased a later copy (1892 or so) of Prescott's "The
> Conquest of Mexico".
Nice find - will you now be hunting for a 1st of vol. 1?
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