1936. 486pp. Library cloth. Very good. This is a typescript, complete with revision marks, of this unpublished mansucript on the life of one of America's most colorful historical figures. Contains reproductions of some primary sources.
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Hartford: Printed by Hudson and Goodwin, [1794]. [36]pp. Illustration. 12mo. Gathered signatures, stitched. Tanned and somewhat soiled. Good. In a folding cloth chemise and a half calf and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. One of the earliest printings of Filson's Daniel Boone narrative, covering eight pages of the Beers almanac for.....
New York. [ 1942]. 112pp., including eight color plates and seventy-five halftones. Quarto. Original red cloth, gilt. Near fine in an edgeworn and soiled dust jacket. Includes a commentary on Bellows' life and work, a bibliography of works related to him, and more than eighty illustrations of his paintings and.....
Lowell. 1865. 17pp. Original gray printed wrappers. Center crease, short split to spine. Internally clean. Very good. A scarce eulogy on the recently-assassinated president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. The author, George Sewall Boutwell, was governor of Massachusetts, a Congressman from that state, and Secretary of the Treasury under.....
Bath. 1815. [3],159pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original paper boards, printed spine label. Chipping to spine, rubbing to spine label, faint offsetting to titlepage. Overall, a very good copy. The enlarged edition of the biography of Lieut. Gen. William Anne Villettes (1754-1807) by his old friend, Thomas Bowdler, from whom the term.....
Boston. 1877. 432pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth. Wear at extremities. Internally very clean. A very good copy. A charming and interesting self-published account of a blind man's life and concerns. The underlying purpose of the work was to encourage progress in improving conditions for the blind, especially with regard to.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. [6],351pp. Original half cloth and paper boards, stamped in gilt, spine gilt. Internally very clean. Uncut and untrimmed. Fine. In a blue cloth slipcase. First edition, one of 530 copies, signed by the author. A historical narrative of "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who earned his.....
New York. 1862. 65pp. plus three plates. 20th-century plain blue wrappers. Internally clean. Very good. Reprint of the autobiography of Capt. Tarleton Brown, originally published in 1843. With anecdotes of his days in the Revolutionary Army, serving under Francis Marion in South Carolina.
Hartford: E.B. and E.C. Kellogg, 1845. 111pp., printed in double columns, plus twenty-seven plates and twenty-seven facsimiles, including frontis. Folio. Publishers' half black morocco with brown cloth boards, gilt pictorial front board, blindstamped pictorial rear board, spine gilt, t.e.g., skillfuly rebacked retaining original backstrip, corners renewed with black buckram. Boards.....
Knoxville. 1834. 299pp. Original calf-backed paper boards, spine gilt. Hinges started, boards rubbed, edges and corners worn. Toned, with moderate foxing. Good plus. An early work by William Brownlow, later editor of the TENNESSEE WHIG, and then Governor and Senator for the state. During this period of his life, Brownlow.....
[Np. 1889]. 20pp. Frontis. plus 3 plates. Folding chart. Dbd., else very good. Monograph on the history of Ralegh's birthplace, Hayes Barton. Illustrated with a photogravure of the farmhouse. Inscribed by the author on front wrapper to Henry Stevens, the famous Americana dealer.
Boston. 1850. Two volumes. xii,348;356pp. Portrait in each volume. Original blindstamped cloth. Rear hinge of vol. 1 broken, and rear board warped, chips at head and toe of spine. Internally very good. "Contains many interesting literary anecdotes connected with the early history of this country" - Sabin. Buckingham was the.....
St. Louis. 1881. 252; [2],160pp. plus frontispiece and 12 chromolithographs. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine faded, head and tail with chipping. Contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf. Mild toning. Very good. The first edition of this account of the Younger and James gangs. The first section.....
Vega, Tx. 1923. 266pp. Portrait, illus. Original cloth. Very good. As Adams suggests, one loses confidence in a biographer who does not spell his subject's name correctly.
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1860. 374pp. plus 22pp. advertisements and six plates (including frontispiece). Original cloth, spine gilt. Cloth uniformly sunned, spine ends frayed, corners worn. 19th-century library bookplate on front pastedown, private library stamp on front free endpaper. Overall a good plus copy. Biography of this western legend who accompanied.....
Cincinnati. 1890. xiii,[1],425,[1]pp Original green cloth, spine gilt. Boards rubbed. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. Hinges tender but secure. Light toning. Very good. An insightful look into the infamous Girtys and their doings throughout the revolutionary period. Simon Girty, "the Great Renegade," along with most of his brothers, became notorious.....
Boonville, N.Y. The Willard Press, 1912. 217pp. Original illustrated cloth boards. Contemporary inscription on back flyleaf. Front hinge tender. Internally very clean. Very good plus. In a brown cloth slipcase. Second edition. A biography of Nat Foster, whose life as a hunter in the Adirondacks served as inspiration for James.....
Utica: Thomas J. Griffiths, 1897. 286pp., plus engraved plates. Original illustrated cloth boards. Ownership signature on titlepage. Lightly toned. Very good. In a brown cloth slipcase. First edition. A biography of Nat Foster, whose life as a hunter in the Adirondacks served as inspiration for James Fenimore Cooper's fictional character.....
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Philadelphia. 1819. xxiii,[1],452pp. plus two folding facsimiles. Portrait. Contemporary calf, maroon gilt morocco label. Minor nick at head of spine, small old label on spine. Lightly tanned. Later bookplate on front and rear pastedowns. Very good. Lacks the errata. An engaging biography of Gen. Nathanael Greene, with descriptions of many.....
Oakland: Paolo Sioli, 1883. [8],272pp. plus forty-nine plates, including illustrated titlepage (fourteen of them affixed to full-sheet sheets, the rest printed on the full-sheet). Quarto. Original half pebbled leather and cloth boards, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, edges marbled. Spine leather rubbed and faded, neatly recased. Two ownership.....
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890. 898pp., plus thirty-five photographic plates. Thick quarto. Original pictorial pigskin, stamped in gilt and blind, spine gilt, a.e.g. Some minor scuffing and wear to the binding. Very clean internally. Very good overall. A massive history of southern California, encompassing San Diego, San Bernardino, Los.....
Philadelphia. 1961. 319pp. Original green cloth with decorative gilt and stamping. In dust jacket. Dust jacket bumped and torn, else very good. A biography of Alexander Wilson, considered to be the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon.
Taos. 1926. 138pp. including frontispiece and plates. Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, inner hinges a bit tender. Internally clean. Very good. In a modern half leather and cloth box. The first publication of this dictated autobiography, which Peters used as the basis of his own biography of Carson, but.....
New York: Hurst & Co., [ca. 1885]. [5]-493,[8]pp. including frontispiece. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in black, spine gilt. Spine sunned, minor edge wear. Hinges cracked, text uniformly tanned. Good. In a modern half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt, leather labels. A sensationalized look at two of the most famous.....
Washington: Press of Gibson Bros. 1913. xiii,509pp. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered. Wear to spine ends and corners, gilt fading. Front hinge cracking, text block a bit cocked. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Internally clean. About very good. One hundred copies printed. "Perhaps the best of personal reminiscences".....
