Majors, Alexander; Ingraham, Colonel Prentis (edited by). Seventy Years on the Frontier Alexander Majors' Memoirs of A Lifetime on the Border Signed by the author. With A Preface buy "Buffalo Bill" (General W. F. Cody). Rand, McNally & Company, Chicago and New York, 1893.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Octavo. [1], 325 pages, [3] pages advertisements, [1]. Frontispiece, illustrated. Blue cloth hardcover with gilt illustration and title on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Some repairs made to this copy. Front and rear hinges discreetly repaired. Pages 71, 72 patched on the edge. Covers are shelf and edge worn. Appears the previous owner inscription erased on the right front flyleaf. Author signed the recto of the frontispiece. Light scattered brown spotting to the contents. Majors was one of the founders of the Pony Express. He also helped with the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Howes M 232; Rader 2334; Wagner-Camp 359; Graff 2664.

Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.

Burke, John M.. Buffalo Bill From Prairie to Palace (Signed First Edition). Rand McNally & Co., 1893.

Price: US$995.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Inscribed First Edition, First Printing of this image-making biography of Buffalo Bill Cody. John M. Burke was a central figure in Buffalo Bill's orbit as press agent, promoter and scribe for Buffalo Bill and the Wild West show beginning in 1883. This biography is -- in addition to being an engaging (if florid) yarn -- a pioneering work in public relations. It is an image-bulding effort, portraying Buffalo Bill as an iconic figure of the frontier and published in conjunction with Buffalo Bill making camp in the wilds of Chicago during the Columbian Exposition of 1893. This copy is inscribed on the half title page by John M. Burke to another colorful entertainer of the era -- the diminutive comic actor Marshall P. Wilder. The inscription reads "To a friend on two continents, Marshall P. Wilder comps. John M. Burke." Brown cloth with gilt titles, 275 pages. The covers have rubbing at the edges and on back cover. Gilt intact except for first two letters in "from" in the title on spine. Covers are loose at front and back with a back endpaper very loose. A previous price is penciled on two pages at front. We've resisted erasing the pencil markings to avoid stressing the delicate front hinge.

Seller: M.S. Books, Salisbury, MD, U.S.A.