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Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth over boards with gold lettering and decoration on blue cloth spine; 295 pp. Edited and with an introduction by Louis Pelzer. His intro gives background about Carleton and places the information in the logbooks in context against the status of the army in the 1940s and in historical context as well as against writings by others on the subject from the same period. VG, clean and tight but with blue dot sticker on spine, lib. plate inside front cover, and blind stamp on title page
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 295 pages, two-tone cloth First book edition, limited to 350 copies [Piehl LXXXV]. This is "a detailed account of the journey of five companies of dragoons from Fort Leavenworth to the Pawnee villages in Nebraska. Carleton described the tour and its physical obstacles, various hunting episodes, bouts with heat and illness, and particularly encounters with such tribes as the Kickapoos, Potawatomies, and Pawnees. The author's eye for salient detail makes these sketches still highly readable.- John T. Flanagan, TRAVELERS ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER, p.179." Two maps.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xviii, 295 pages of text. Original hardcover binding with minimal shelfwear. No slipcase. The endpapers are lightly foxed; t.e.g. One of 350 copies designed by William A. Kittredge. Edited with an introduction by Louis Pelzer. First edition. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Only 350 copies were printed of this 1943 edition published by The Caxton Club (Chicago) and printed at The Lakeside Press (R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company - Chicago). Scarce edition in the original book slipcase. The slipcase has kept the book in a pristine condition. No browning of pages. Nice deckled page edges. Burnt orange buckram cloth hardback with a dark teal spine. Titling and emblems on spine are in gilt. GIFT WORTHY. (BR) Box 39
Seller: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1/350 copies. 8vo. xviii, 295 pp. Double-page map. Howes C-146. These two journals, describing military exploring expeditions on the plains and in the Rocky Mountains, were first published serially by William T. Porter in his periodical Spirit of the Times, 1844-1846. Very good. Orig. two-tone cloth, gilt spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. (#8120).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: xviii, 295 pp. Map. 8vo. Limited edition of 350 copies. "Lieutenant James Henry Carleton's first Logbook was published anonymously and appeared first in the Spirit of the Times, New York, from November 9, 1844 to April 12, 1845 . The Logbook describing the second expedition (commanded by Colonel S. W. Kearny) was first printed in the Spirit of the Times from December 27, 1845 to May 30, 1846." Howes 146. Tiny bump to corner else a fine crisp copy in good solid slipcase worn through at the corners. Gilt decorated quarter blue cloth over red cloth boards. Top edge gilt
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB, East Jewett, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
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Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
CARLETON, Lt. J. Henry. Prairie Logbooks 1844-45. Dragoon Campaigns to the Pawnee Villages. , 1943.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Description: CARLETON, Lt. J. Henry. The Prairie Logbooks, 1844-45. Dragoon Campaigns to the Pawnee Villages in 1844, and to the Rocky Mountains in 1845. Edited With an Introduction by Louis Pelzer. Chicago: Caxton Club, 1943. Maps. xviii, 295pp. A fine, untrimmed copy in cloth-backed boards, t.e.g. Howes C-146. Limited to 350 copies.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.