Frankfort, Ky. Printed for the author... 1842. 152pp. 12mo. Original half calf and paper boards, printed paper label. Mild chipping to spine ends, boards foxed and lightly soiled. Small leather bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown, bookplate of C.R. Sanders to rear pastedown, otherwise clean internally. Very good.....
New York. 1837. 24pp. Later three quarter calf and boards, rebacked. Some foxing. Good. This is the third edition listed in Howes, after the first of 1835. A melancholy tale, as the title indicates. The titlepage vignette depicts a forlorn Baldwin sitting outside his hut, wrapped in a blanket...
Boston. 1853. 233pp. plus ads. Frontis. Plates. Original cloth. Edgeworn, chipped at base of spine, cloth soiled. Some foxing of plates, else internally very good. The author was captured at Patagonia on a schooner voyage to California, escaped after three months, and reached the gold mines in California in February.....
Fostoria, Oh. The Gray Printing Company, 1896. 70pp. 12mo. Original printed boards, cloth spine. Head and toe of spine bit worn. Leaves a bit tanned. Very good. According to Ernest J. Wessen, this reprint is rarer than the first edition of 1860 published in Cleveland. Brayton was stolen near his.....
[London]: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. 196,[3]pp. Folio. Original half red and black cloth, gilt leather label. Minor wear. Internally bright and clean. Very good plus. Untrimmed. First edition, limited to 300 copies. The personal account of Father Brebeuf, Franco- Jesuit Missionary, of his time living among the Hurons. Brebeuf.....
Chicago: Lakeside Press R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1950. liii,354,[6]pp., including full-page maps and in-text illustrations, plus two plates. Folding frontispiece map. 12mo. Original dark red cloth, spine gilt, front board gilt-ruled with gilt-stamped publisher's logo center, t.e.g. Spine slightly faded. Interior generally clean and unmarked. Publisher's card laid in.....
Boston and Chicago: Congressional Sunday-School and Publishing Society, [ 1892]. xiii,[1],321pp. including illustrations. Portrait frontis. Original pictorial cloth, gilt-lettered spine and cover. Internally bright and clean. Near fine. In a half morocco box. Bookplate of noted Americana collector Frank Cutter Deering on front pastedown. A description of missionary life among.....
London: Printed for J. Marshall, 1734. 219,[3],42pp. 12mo. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Bottom portion of spine darkened. Bookplates on front endpapers, foxed, tanned, a few old dampstains. Small chip at bottom of titlepage, not affecting text. Good. The "fourth edition, corrected." A shipwreck narrative with Americana.....
Boston. 1822. 108pp. Lacks view of Brainerd plate. Frontis. 16mo. Contemporary calf-backed boards, gilt title on spine. Spine ends worn, edges rubbed. Tanned, some foxing. A good copy. "The little Osage captive was rescued by missionaries from amongst the Cherokees, and given the name of Lydia Carter" - Ayer. The.....
Philadelphia. 1854. 98,[1]pp. plus [8]pp. of advertisements. 16mo. Original roan backed printed boards, later paper spine label. Outer hinges worn, chipped at spine extremities, shelf label removed from front cover deleting some letters in subtitle. A few light traces of foxing, else internally fine. Later edition of this popular narrative.....
Wellsburgh, Va. Printed...for the Author, 1824. [4],316pp. Contemporary calf, leather label. Early ownership signature on front free endpaper. Tanned, some minor staining, a few marginal tears expertly repaired. Very good. "Classic on the life of the first settlers beyond the Alleghenies. Doddridge's parents moved to Washington County, Pennsylvania, then a......
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1986. xi,34pp. Cloth-backed boards. As new. Issued by the Yale Collection of Western Americana, this reprints the only known copy of the Dolly Webster captivity, purchased by Yale in 1985. Thomas Streeter noted the book in his BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TEXAS (1453), but had never seen.....
Jersey City: Clark Johnson, 1873. 309,[2]pp. Portrait frontis. Original orange cloth. Rubbed, contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper and pastedown, scattered foxing, a bit loose. Good. "A revoltingly fictious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian blood syrup, and made up mainly of descriptions of Indian life and.....
Paris. 1785. [4],xvi,234pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, spine gilt extra, leather label, patterned endpapers. Extremities rubbed. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Very good plus. The first French edition of Filson's pioneering history of the settlements in Kentucky, issued the year after.....
Paris: Chez Buisson, 1785. [4],xvi,234pp. plus folding map. Half title. Contemporary French mottled calf, rebacked, retaining original spine tooled in gilt, morocco gilt label, marbled endpapers. Light wear to extremities. Later ink annotations on front free endpaper, titlepage, and final leaf, else quite clean internally. Later bookseller's label on rear.....
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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 half calf and cloth slipcase, spine gilt, with chemise. One of the earliest printings of Filson's Daniel Boone narrative, occupying eight pages of the Beers almanac for 1795. The.....
Pittsburgh: Printed by S. Engles, 1825. 66pp. 12mo. Contemporary half muslin and paper boards. Boards quite worn and rubbed. Front free endpaper torn. Old stain in upper outer corner of titlepage and first three leaves of text. Tanning and foxing. A very decent copy, in original, unsophisticated condition. In a......
Pittsburgh: Printed by S. Engles, 1825. 66pp. 12mo. Contemporary half muslin and paper boards. Boards heavily worn, chipped, and stained. Text tanned, with some stains. Lower portion of leaf C torn, touching a few letters of text, leaf F with a small tear in the upper margin, also touching a......
Bath, N.Y. 1842. 310pp. Later three quarter morocco and cloth. Ex- lib. with faint stamp on titlepage. Early ink ownership inscription on second blank preliminary leaf. Scraped at edges, scattered foxing, else very good. The second edition, issued the year after the first. Describes Van Campen's experiences as an Indian.....
New York: J. & J. Harper, 1827. 264pp. Original cloth-backed boards, printed paper label. Minor wear to binding. Text lightly foxed. Very good plus. In a cloth slipcase. Johnston and his party were captured at the mouth of the Scioto and were taken to Sandusky by a band of Indians.....
Cleveland. 1904. 70pp. Original gilt cloth. Printed paper label on spine. Near fine. From an edition limited to twenty-seven copies, printed on Japan vellum. Written in the first person, but most likely penned by Leeth's interviewer, Ewel Jeffries. A reprint of the very rare 1831 Lancaster, Ohio edition. John Leeth.....
Maysville, Ky. 1832. 360pp. Half title. 12mo. Modern half calf and marbled boards, leather label. Uniformly browned, some pencil marginalia, else very good. The present copy contains the half title, which was lacking from the Streeter copy. The very rare first edition of this miscellany of tales of the opening.....
Philadelphia. 1832. 360pp. Half title. Contemporary paper boards, linen spine, printed paper label. Light wear and fraying to front hinge, corners bumped and rubbed. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Foxing. Very good. Untrimmed. Another issue of the first edition, using the same sheets as the rare Maysville issue. A miscellany.....
Dayton. 1847. [4],315,[1]pp. including preliminary advertisements, frontispiece, and two full- page illustrations. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, leather label. Front hinge cracked. Light foxing and soiling. Good. Another issue, "revised and corrected, with engravings," after the rare Maysville issue of 1832. A miscellany of tales of the opening of the dark.....
Cincinnati. 1839. 315pp. including frontispiece and full-page illustrations. Contemporary calf, rebacked and recornered with later leather. Lightly and evenly dampstained throughout. Good. A later issue, "revised and corrected, with engravings," after the rare Maysville issue of 1832. A miscellany of tales of the opening of the dark and bloody ground.....
