Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Bourke, John Gregory. On the Border with Crook. 7 plates. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth, minor wear; lacking front free endpaper, browning on title page, rear hinge starting; original owner's inscription on title page. 4 pages of undated publisher's ads. New York, 1891

Additional Details

first edition. "A truly great book, on both Apaches and Arizona frontier"--Dobie, Life and Literature of the Southwest. The original owner Anson G. McCook had been a brevet Brigadier General in the Civil War, served three terms as a United States Representative for New York, and when he signed this book in 1891 was serving as Secretary of the United States Senate. Graff 367; Howes B654.