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STREETER'S COPY IN WRAPS

BOYNTON, C. B.; and MASON, T. B. A Journey through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska. Small folding map. 8vo, publisher's wrappers, stained, backstrip chipped with loss; some foxing and staining; Thomas W. Streeter's copy with his booklabel on the inside rear wrapper and his pencil notes on the front free endpaper; cloth case. Cincinnati, 1855

  • Notes: first edition. "The Rev. Boynton was an eager promoter of New England immigration to Kansas and the South, speaking in terms of a 'peaceful Army of Occupation of northern freemen settling in colonies'"--Streeter Sale 1990 (this copy); Howes B677; Wagner-Camp 250; Graff 376.

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