(AMERICAN INDIANS) Dodge Richard Irving Salesmans canvassing

Sale 2207 - Lot 12

Price Realized: $ 240

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400

(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Dodge, Richard Irving. Salesman's canvassing copy of Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience among the Red Men of the Great West. 24 plates, some in color. 8vo, gilt pictorial cloth, moderate wear, stain along top edge; first three leaves coming loose, title page detached, a bit of marginal dampstaining, frontispiece portrait foxed; agent's inscription on flyleaf. Hartford, 1883

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This sample copy was issued with only a small portion of the text, as well as additional advertising material. Samples of two different backstrips are affixed to the front pastedown, one brown calf and the other maroon gilt pictorial cloth. Included are an almost random sampling of 40 text leaves plus 24 plates from the actual book. Following the sample pages are 8 pages of advance testimonials from newspapers, 2 ad leaves for this work, a 2-page printed list of subscribers, and a 48-page subscription list including blanks. The first 15 pages of this subscription list are completed with facsimile signatures of prominent subscribers, followed by 7 pages of manuscript signatures, most by residents of Lawrence, MA. Publisher's agent Benjamin Burge Choate was a Lawrence resident, listed in the 1880 census as a bobbin maker at a local textile mill. Howes D403.