NARRATIVE OF THE SUFFERING & DEFEAT OF THE NORTH-WESTERN ARMY, Under General Winchester: Massacre of the Prisoners: Sixteen Months Imprisonment of the Writer and Others with the Indians and British.
Frankfort, KY: Printed for the Author by A.G. Hodges, 1842. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Very good- condition. Item #017718
152 pages of text. Original binding with leather backed marbled paper-covered boards and a printed paper label. The binding is moderately worn, with the front hinge cracking but remaining attached. The front and rear endpapers are foxed, with some browning to the text. Residue from label removal on the inside front cover. Howes A366. Sabin 2273. Field 52. Streeter II:1082: "The wholly believable and well expressed account of the young author's disastrous military campaign, capture and adoption by the Indians, and, most cruel of all, his imprisonment in Canada." First edition.
Price: $250.00