Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(CANADA.) Bryant, Wilbur F. The Blood of Abel. Portrait plate. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, minor wear; inked stamp and early owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Hastings, NE, 1887
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first edition. Entirely on the Canadian Northwest and the Riel Rebellion. Not in Lande or TPL; originally offered for sale only in two small-town bookstores in Nebraska and Michigan, per the back cover. Peel, Canadian Prairies, 1353. The last copy known at auction was at Swann, 23 June 1977, lot 23.