[PARKMAN, FRANCIS.]

The journals … edited by Mason Wade.

New York & London: Harper & Bros. 1947. First edition, 2 vols., 8vo, pp. xxv, [1], 381, [1]; [8], [383]-718 (continuous); map endpapers, 17 plates, 12 maps and illus. in the text; generally a very good set or better throughout, in the jackets (one snag in the spine of one jacket, but no loss of letterpress, spine ends of jackets have short cracks); publisher's slipcase. "The discovery of Francis Parkman's journals in a Boston attic where they had lain undisturbed for nearly fifty years was one of the most dramatic incidents in the annals of American scholarship" (jacket blurb). Item #22372

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