PIONEER LIFE AND FRONTIER ADVENTURES. AN AUTHENTIC RECORD OF THE ROMANTIC LIFE AND DARING EXPLOITS OF KIT CARSON AND HIS COMPANION
by Peters, Dewitt C
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Boston, 1883. x,[2],[19]-567pp. Illus. Original gilt pictorial cloth. Inner front hinge cracking, bookplate on front pastedown, else good. A much later edition, after the first of 1858 and the expanded edition of 1873, of Peters' biography of Kit Carson. This is repackaged under a different title but is the same as the 1873 version. Basic text of the Carson myth. HOWES P256 (ref)
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- Bookseller
- William Reese Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- PIONEER LIFE AND FRONTIER ADVENTURES. AN AUTHENTIC RECORD OF THE ROMANTIC LIFE AND DARING EXPLOITS OF KIT CARSON AND HIS COMPANION
- Author
- Peters, Dewitt C
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1883
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With a catalogued inventory of over thirty thousand items, and a general inventory of over sixty-five thousand items, we are among the leading specialists in the fields of Americana and world travel, and maintain a large and eclectic inventory of literary first editions and antiquarian books of the 18th through 20th centuries.
We issue frequent, and substantial, catalogues in our fields of specialization, and we are equipped to produce smaller lists devoted to specific subjects with ease in response to requests.
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