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Charles Alston Messiter. Sport and Adventures among the North-American Indians. R. H. Porter, 1890.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with four leading corners a little soft; front boards and spine , the gilt faded. lettered in gilt and decorated in black. Spine has been professionally rebacked, its top and base strengthened; [nternally bookplate and address in pencil on front paste down and small blind stamp in corner of ffep. Hinges of front and rear gutters strengthened; half title and frontis foxed as is the last page; all between clean and tight.
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Description: 1st printing. Gilt-stamped light green cloth with pictorial cover in black of Indian horseback. 368pp. Illus. Forner owner's ink address stamp on front paste down & the half-title. A wide-ranging, descriptive tour of the West by an Englishman from Liverpool. Cowan's auction had this description on a copy it sold years ago: "Descriptions of big game hunting in the West during the mid-19th century. The author traveled from England to Canada and the Northern Plains of the U.S. in 1862, as conflict with native peoples in the West was heating up. He mentions that many of the western forts, or posts, were manned by raw recruits, often immigrants, such as the two companies of German soldiers at Fort Abercrombie. Of course, the trained troops were needed farther east, as the Civil War was underway. After a description of violence in the native population clustered around Fort Carlton, Messiter notes: Such acts as these occur very seldom among what are called "Wild Indians," though when semi-civilized they are heard of frequently." Very good copy. We had the hinges professionally repaired. Former owner's library embossment on the lower ffep. Occasional finger smudge.
Seller: Gene W. Baade, Books on the West, Renton, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Olivegreen clioth blocked in brown and gilt. 368pp. Illustrated by Charles Whymper. A chronicle of Messiter's two trips to Sioux Territory, Kansas, Texas, and other portions of the West in 1862 and 1866, where he hunted and explored the western United States and Canada. It recounts his adventures hunting big game (buffalo, deer, grizzly bears, elk, antelope, and wild turkey). He also recounts his experiences with Native Americans and describes the landscapes he encountered. Neat ownership name, auction catalog clippings on front pastedown. Very good copy. Howes M558.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xvi, (2), 368 pp. Plates from Whymper drawings. Howes M-558. Graff 2762. Rader 2387. Phillips, pp. 260-261: "An excellent book on hunting in the West and North-West Canada. Messiter hunted with Col. Pickett (see Boone & Crockett 'Hunting at High Altitudes')." Heller 243: "Account of the author's two trips to North America in 1862 and 1866, with lots of adventure and hunting incidents, much of it in Indian country of the West and the adjoining Canadian provinces. Includes hunting of buffalo, deer, grizzly and other bears, elk, antelope, and wild turkey. Also with several chapters on Texas including accounts of a bear hunt and snipe shooting." Not in Casada. Very good. Original gilt-stamped illustrated green cloth (rubbed). (#7812).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xvi, (2), 368 pp. Plates from Whymper drawings. Howes M-558. Graff 2762. Rader 2387. Phillips, pp. 260-261: "An excellent book on hunting in the West and North-West Canada. Messiter hunted with Col. Pickett (see Boone & Crockett 'Hunting at High Altitudes')." Heller 243: "Account of the author's two trips to North America in 1862 and 1866, with lots of adventure and hunting incidents, much of it in Indian country of the West and the adjoining Canadian provinces. Includes hunting of buffalo, deer, grizzly and other bears, elk, antelope, and wild turkey. Also with several chapters on Texas including accounts of a bear hunt and snipe shooting." Not in Casada. Very good. Somewhat later green crushed morocco, gilt, covers framed by three thin gilt rules, with corner and mid-line ornaments, title and gilt western American ornaments between raised bands on spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., by Pfister. (#7923).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$388.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xvi, [1], 368. with half-title. 9 illus. by Charles Whymper. original pictorial cloth (extremities rubbed). First Edition. Messiter travelled extensively in the Canadian and American West (Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Missouri, and Texas), partly in company with Milton and Cheadle. The winter of 1862-63 he spent in the Thickwood Hills northwest of Fort Carlton in Saskatchewan. His narrative relates his sporting adventures in pursuit of grizzlies, moose, buffalo, wild geese and grouse, and includes much of interest relating to the manners and customs of the Sioux, Cree and Caddo Indian tribes. Peel 444.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$432.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With original illustrations by Charles Whymper. Howes M-558.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.