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Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, crown 8vo (7 1/2" x 5"), pp. xvi, half'-title, dedication, title, contents, 17-428, folding map. Original cloth, gilt stamped back. Graff 341. Howes B579. Sabin 6221. Very good copy with some wear to cloth edges & extremities. Sheets with moderate occasional stains. Map with partial separation fold, minor tears at attachment area. H9171
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine++ and very tight hardcover copy. First Edition. The most authoritative narrative describing the plains Indians and fur trading in the upper Missouri for the period. Original binding. Bookplate, front board and signature appear on front free end paper. Large fold out map (Excellent Condition) shows the territories of Montana, Utah, Nebraska, Missouri. Map has two very small tears, repaired professionally with paper mending tape, which does not yellow and can be removed without any damage. No bumped corners to book. Spine tips are a little soft. No cracked hinges. A very scarce copy in original binding with map, which was not issued with most copies. One of the nicest copies available. Listed in Howes B-579; Graff: 341; Field: 147; Sabin 6221.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 12mo. Original green cloth, with title in gilt on the spine with the publisher's monogram, xvi, 17 - 428 pp., preface, large folding map. Eberstadt 107:33 says: "This important work is of rare occurrence and the valuable map (here present) is almost invariably lacking. Boller voluntarily entered upon a project to penetrate the wilderness and spend a decade among tribes as yet uncorrupted by white 'civilization.' He set out from St. Louis in May of 1858 with Vaughn, Malcolm Clark and a company of fur traders with whom he travelled as far as Fort Williams. Here, Boller parted with his associates and, taking Bourgeois McBride as his only companion, set forth into the wilderness where for eight years he roamed totally dependent upon his own resources and the uncertain friendship of the savages. His narrative of this experience, taken from the journal and notes kept by him, is one of the most valuable relations of early days and life in the Far West, as well as a minute account of the Indian tribes among whom he lived which include the Sioux, Gros Ventres, Mandans and Assinaboines. He describes the trading posts; the trappers and traders; the Indian wars and massacres; the Idaho and Montana gold mines; life at the mining camps; the Vigilance Committee; a trip to Salt Lake; life among the Mormons; and his return trip in 1866 by way of the Missouri River to St. Louis." Howes B579 says: "Most authoritative narrative of fur-trading among the plains Indians of the upper Missouri, for that period." Six Guns 235 says: "Rare." "Has a short chapter on the vigilantes and outlaws of Montana and the hanging of Henry Plummer, but most of the book is devoted to the author's life with the Indians. Most of the existing copies of this rare book lack the map." This copy has the rare map. A solid very good copy housed in a matching cloth slipcase.
Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.