Upcoming book - Our Western Border
Our Western Border: Its Life, Combats, Adventures, One Hundred Years Ago; Containing The Cream of All the Rare Old Border Chronicles, (now long out of print and almost impossible to procure,) together with a large amount of fresh and original matter derived from authentic sources, the whole work embracing strange and thrilling narratives of captivities, daring deeds, desperate conflicts, exciting adventures, personal prowess, and aiming, by judicious selections, to present the fullest, most-varied and most-reliable portrayal of border struggle and adventure yet published. Forays, massacres, captivities, scouts, red chiefs, pioneer women, “truth is stranger than fiction.” carefully written and compiled by Charles McKnight, author of “Old Fort Duquesne” and “Simon Girty”. Illustrated by the very best artists. J. C. McCurdy & Co., Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis (1876) 752pp. (not counting illustrations); 8.5x11, pb., 60.00 + P&H. Printed like most of my paperbacks on 60# / 440ppi archival paper.
Other Print On Demand Companies that have reprinted this book (sweat shops in India and China) print it 6x9 or smaller. I have enlarged the page size to 136% to 8.5x11 and it is at 13-point times new roman print size... very comfortable for reading. my paperback cover below (of the full cover, front, back, and spine).
Cheaper editions of books I print may be found on the market, but most are sweat shop labor in India or China or elsewhere, by those who don't care about the product and probably can't even read it; who have plain or nonsensical unimaginative covers, and do not clean up the text, and often use inferior quality materials; and some are often OCR / re-typeset that has not been proofread and contain gobbley-gook, misspelled, indistinguishable words, etc. I clean up all marginalia / underlining / circling / shadows and restructure damaged / missing text, and often include extra information ("about the author", photo, etc., when possible); my editions are the highest quality on the market, with archival quality (440pp. / 60# quality paper) and are 100% USA start to finish.
See also link herein for an actual size comparison of my edition next to actual size of other editions (once you open the PDF go to top left "zoom" and click on 100% / actual size).