First edition. 5 3/4" x 4" oblong, color, pictorial wrappers, 16 pp., black & white engraved view of the "Hotel Colfax at Colfax Springs, Iowa, 333 miles west of Chicago and 24 miles east of Des Moines, on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway." "Accommodations for three hundred and fifty guests. On the site of the famous Magnesium, Chalybeate and Colfax Mineral Springs. A sanitarium for invalids, and fashionable Summer Resort." Descriptive paragraphs about all the fishing grounds along the routes, mostly in Illinois and Iowa, with some mention of Missouri, Dakota, and Minnesota. Small agent's stamp at bottom of title page, light evidence of a fold crease to the front cover, else a near fine, bright, clean copy.

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Title: FISHING ON THE LINE OF THE GREAT ROCK ISLAND & ALBERT LEA ROUTES (COVER TITLE). LAKE, RIVER, CREEK AND SLOUGH. FISHING GROUNDS AND FACILITIES FOR PISCATORIAL SPORT AT POINTS ON THE LINES OF THE CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC, BURLINGTON, CEDAR RAPIDS & NORTHERN AND MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS RYS
Publisher: Rand, McNally & Co., n. d. (ca 1880)., Chicago
Publication Date: 1880
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: First edition.

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Buckingham Books specializes in new, used and Rare Books dealing with Western Americana, Ephemera and Mystery. Western Americana includes Maps, Photographs, Letters, Documents, Art, and Ephemeral Material related to the History of the American West, Canada and Northern Mexico. Our Specialties include Cowboys, Cattle and Development of the Range, Mountain Men and the Fur Trade, Frontier Military and Indian Wars, Outlaws and Lawmen of the Old West, Native American History and Ethnology, Exploration, Gold Rush, Railroad, Overland, Natural History and Travel. Books in Mystery include Detective Fiction, Golden Age, Espionage, Queen's Quorum, Sherlockiana, Artwork, Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, References and PBO. All of the books in our inventory are First Editions unless clearly stated otherwise.

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