Long Lance The true story of an impostor
by Smith, Donald B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771595859
- ISBN 13
- 9780771595851
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771595859 . DJ shows some shelf wear with small tears and light chipping, scuffing, small bump top edge of book. Pages are toned; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 8.50 X 5.70 X 1.20 inches; 304 pages; "At the turn of the century, a boy named Sylvester Long, the son of mixed blood parents, living in the "colored" section of Winston-Salem NC, signed on with a traveling Wild West show where he fell in with the Indians who worked the show and started to pass as one. Thereafter he fabricated a wholly fictitious past and won favor in the white man's world as a Blackfoot chief, a West Point scholar, a war hero who served with the Canadian troops at Vimy Ridge." Smith untangles the truth from the fiction. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18490
- Title
- Long Lance The true story of an impostor
- Author
- Smith, Donald B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771595859
- ISBN 13
- 9780771595851
- Publisher
- Macmillan of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- 0771595859, Blackfoot, long lance
- Bookseller catalogs
- Native studies;
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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