Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 371

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(WEST.) Fetherston, F.M. Yarns Round a Prairie Camp Fire; or, Tales of Wild Adventure in the Far West. 61 pages, the last page being printed on the verso of the rear wrapper. 8vo, publisher's printed wrappers, dampstaining and moderate wear; only intermittent foxing to contents. London, circa 1860
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Fetherston was an Englishman writing in Knaresborough, Yorkshire who described these tales in his preface as "minor works of the imagination." Among the seven yarns are "How Jim Bolton Tackled the Grizzly Bear," "A Fight with Indians and Buffaloes, "A Negro's Tale of a Tail," and "A Cache in the Rocky Mountains." Howes F106; not in Graff or Sabin. OCLC lists only 3 copies, all bearing the wrapper notation "third thousand"; the present copy has no such note, apparently making it the untraced first issue; no copies of any issue known at auction.