Jun 05, 2008 - Sale 2148

Sale 2148 - Lot 130

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG.) Custer, Elizabeth Bacon. "Boots and Saddles," or Life in Dakota with General Custer. Frontispiece portrait, map. 12mo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth, minor wear at extremities; hinges weak, newspaper clipping portrait of Custer pasted to front pastedown, autograph manuscript inscription by author on flyleaf. New York, 1885.

Additional Details

first edition. Inscription reads "To my good friend Capt. Charles Baumann, 5th U.S. Cavalry, Christmas 1886, Elizabeth B. Custer." Mrs. Custer's chapter on Little Bighorn is "poignant and beautifully written"--Swinford-Luther 4. Howes C980.