Measuring America: How the United States Was Shaped by the Greatest Land Sale in History (Signed)

First UK edition, first printing. 308pp, plus two section of monochrome plate illustrations. Signed by the author on the title page. In black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine. Brown endpapers. 8vo. Cloth rounded on upper corners and spine ends, strip fading along upper edge, text block edges tanned. Pages a little tanned in margins. In its original dust jacket, lightly bumped on edges, a little more heavily along the upper edge. How the greatest land sale in history, of over a billion acres of land west of the Ohio River, shaped the American nation, both geographically and psychologically.