Back-Trailers from the Middle Border, Hamlin Garland, Inscribed first edition, 1928

Back-Trailers from the Middle Border is the final volume in Hamlin Garland’s celebrated Middle Border series, completing his semi-autobiographical account of American frontier life in the late nineteenth century. First issued in 1928, the work reflects Garland's mature perspective on the social and personal costs of westward expansion and stands as a key text in early twentieth-century American regional literature. The presence of a contemporary author presentation inscription, dated the year of publication, adds a pleasing associative element to this copy of one of Garland's most enduring works.

Back-Trailers from the Middle Border, by Hamlin Garland. Illustrations by Constance Garland.

Published by The Macmillan Company, New York. First printing, October 1928.

A very good black cloth hardback with gilt and colour printed cover. Light bumping. Soundly bound. With original pictorial dustjacket, worn to extremities, with some losses and splits at joints. Not price clipped. Now housed in removable, clear, protective plastic. pictorial endpapers. With author's presentation inscription dated to Christmas 1928 to first free endpaper.

Text is clean and bright throughout with some age toning and wear to edges of text block. Nicely illustrated. Rough cut vertical edge.

Text in English.

x + (1) + 379pp.

Dimensions: approx 195mm high x 141mm wide x 38mm deep.

Weight: approximately 560g (unpacked).