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Auction archive: Lot number 250

Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of her Quarter Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L...

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$600
Auction archive: Lot number 250

Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of her Quarter Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L...

Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$600
Beschreibung:

Title: Cynthia Ann Parker The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of her Quarter Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L.S. Ross, of the Texas Rangers Author: DeShields, James T. Place: St. Louis Publisher: Printed for the Author Date: 1886 Description: 80 pp. With 4 plates. 7x5, original cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition. DeShield's first book, important Indian captivity narrative. There are two ink corrections to the preface, perhaps as issued. Graff 1064; Howes D278; Rader 1126; Raines p.67. Lot Amendments Condition: Slight rubbing to extremities, pencil inscriptions on endpapers, hinges neatly repaired, normal darkening of contents, else near fine. Item number: 163074

Auction archive: Lot number 250
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 2005
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: Cynthia Ann Parker The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of her Quarter Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L.S. Ross, of the Texas Rangers Author: DeShields, James T. Place: St. Louis Publisher: Printed for the Author Date: 1886 Description: 80 pp. With 4 plates. 7x5, original cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. First Edition. DeShield's first book, important Indian captivity narrative. There are two ink corrections to the preface, perhaps as issued. Graff 1064; Howes D278; Rader 1126; Raines p.67. Lot Amendments Condition: Slight rubbing to extremities, pencil inscriptions on endpapers, hinges neatly repaired, normal darkening of contents, else near fine. Item number: 163074

Auction archive: Lot number 250
Auction:
Datum:
20 Oct 2005
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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