CROCKETT DAVID An Account of Col Crocketts Tour to the North

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CROCKETT, DAVID. An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East. Frontispiece portrait. 12mo, publisher's cloth, printed spine title, minor wear and sunning; a spot of foxing to frontispiece and title page only. With 34 pages of undated publisher's ads. In a modern cloth folding case. Philadelphia, 1835

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first edition. Although billed as "written by himself," it is sometimes ascribed to Augustin S. Clayton or William Clark as ghostwriter. Among other highlights, this was probably the first tourist description of the infamous Five Points neighborhood in New York, about which Crockett proclaimed "I would rather risque myself in an Indian fight than venture among these creatures after night." Anbinder, Five Points, page 26; Howes C896; Sabin 17565.