Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Lee, Nelson. Three Years Among the Camanches. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; minor foxing, free endpapers torn; early signature on verso of frontispiece. Albany, NY, 1859

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first edition, issue without the illustrated additional title page. Field, in perhaps the most overheated bibliographic entry ever, says this captivity narrative documents "the appalling and monstrous cruelties of this untamable nation of nomads . . . with the combined fury of lust and bloodthirst" (905). Ayer Captivity 182; Graff 2444; Howes L212 ("b"); Sabin 39778; Wagner-Camp 334.