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| Author: |
DeShields, James T. |
| Title: |
Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of her Quarter Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L.S. Ross, of the Texas Rangers |
| Place: |
St. Louis |
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Printed for the Author |
| Date: |
1886 |
| Item # : |
163074 |
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| Sale Number |
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319 |
| Lot Number |
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250 |
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| The Library of Ford Mitchell: Early Americana, Texas & the West |
| Sale Date |
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10/20/2005 |
| Price realized |
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$ 575 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| 80 pp. With 4 plates. 7x5, original cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition. |
| DeShield's first book, important Indian captivity narrative. There are two ink corrections to the preface, perhaps as issued. Graff 1064; Howes D278; Rader 1126; Raines p.67. |
| Condition: |
| Slight rubbing to extremities, pencil inscriptions on endpapers, hinges neatly repaired, normal darkening of contents, else near fine. |
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