Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
INSCRIBED BY MILLER (CALIFORNIA.) Miller, Joaquin. Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History. viii, 400 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down; clippings on the author's death tipped to front free endpaper, with offsetting to half-title, foxing to final leaf; bookseller's tag on front pastedown, inscribed by author on half-title. London, 1873

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first edition of a first-hand account of the Modocs of northern California. The inscription reads "I am my dear Austin truly and sincerely your friend, Joaquin Miller, London, Sep. 73." Beneath is another inscription, "James Thomas, the Prince"--who is discussed on page 392. BAL 13755 ("binding A"); Cowan 1933, page 429; Howes M608; Zamorano Eighty 55.