Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs

Miller, Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner Miller)

Verlag: American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT, 1874

445pp. Octavo [23 cm] Brown cloth over boards with lettering and decorative stamping in gilt and blind on the spine and covers. Tipped in frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue guard. Twenty-four illustrated plates, with "The Indian Mother" repeated. Tipped-in Publisher's Announcement (on reverse of dedication). This is not the earliest printing. It is the State B copy listed in BAL (p. 186), with the lower half of the advertisement on p. 447 devoted to "Everybody's Friend." The underlying boards are exposed at the corners, and there are thin losses from the cloth at the spine ends, resulting in a slight loss to the gilt borders. The gilt on the spine is also a bit dulled. There is a contemporary ownership mark in pencil on the front free endpaper, dated "1874." Wright-Howes M-612. BAL 13757. The author's second book, a book based on the time Miller spent during the 1850s in the Northern Californian mining towns and Indian camps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 51541

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Unwritten History: Life Amongst the Modocs
Verlag: American Publishing Company, Hartford, CT
Erscheinungsdatum: 1874
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very good
Auflage: Early American printing.