Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in dark blue, front board embossed. Wear at head and tail of spine. Ink and pencil inscription on ffep. Front hinge cracked.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition of this notable memoir of frontier life and Native American culture in Oklahoma Territory. The author was the wife of an Indian agent who followed her husband to the Darlington Indian Agency, based near Fort Reno. Presents an important of agency life in the Indian Territory and provides vivid descriptions of the tribal customs and characteristics of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. Blue decorated cloth with gilt titles,216 pages, illustrated. The frontspiece photograph is detached but remains in position.
Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Blue bind-embossed cloth is very good, gilt titles on spine are bright. Binding threads are visible in several places, yet binding seems solid; Illus. with black & white photos including frontispiece
Seller: Sagebrush Press, Morongo Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth covers embossed, with gilt spine lettering bright, readable. Moderate overall cover wear with spine slant. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper. Hinges sound, but front hinge a tad tender. Pages tight, unmarked. No DJ. A quite nice copy. Wright Howes: "The author's husband, Oklahoma City's first mayor, resented certain allusions to his conduct and succeeded in destroying many copies. ";
Seller: Nelson & Nelson, Booksellers, Trenton, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$560.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 216. Drab cloth, little dusted and rubbed, Frontis, illustrated (one illustration separate), a good copy. Graff 1191, Rader 1250, Howes 619. The experiences of an Indian Agent's wife. "The author's husband, Oklahoma City's first mayor, resented certain allusions to his conduct and succeeded in destroying many copies." Howes 619.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.