A book club edition of A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s epic 1949 novel about American pioneers heading west on the Oregon Trail. Includes three maps showing the travelers' route from Missouri to Oregon. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 and made into a movie starring Kirk Douglas in 1965. --- In grey paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with spine titling stamped in silver. Volume wrapped in dust jacket with color Alan Haemer illustration of a nighttime camp along the trail. --- With mild soiling to a handful of leaves, else a tightly-bound, bright copy. Jacket with some sun-caused fading to spine and light chafing to extremities, else intact, bright and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (10), 340 pages
Title: The Way West
Location Published: New York, William Sloane Associates: 1949
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
Categories: Other
Stock No.: 87372
