[4], 221, [1] pp. Original mounted albumen photograph portrait of Alexis as a frontispiece. 10x6½, period full morocco ruled in gilt, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. First Edition.

One of the rarest of all books of Custeriana, printed for private distribution in a limitation estimated at 100 copies. Tucker apparently wrote this book to be presented to his friends and the officials and citizens who entertained the Russian Grand Duke on his tour. Among those who spent time accompanying Alexis was George Armstrong Custer, joining the entourage in Omaha on January 12, 1872, escorting the foreign personage on a buffalo hunt, and traveling with the Grand Duke to New Orleans, where on February 17 they attended a matinee of Dan Rice's Circus. Includes a note with an ink inscription, laid in, stating that "This book was presented by William W. Tucker and got up by him." The copy formerly owned by the late John M. Carroll, the noted Custer scholar and historian, had Tucker's signature on the title page, from which Carroll's reproduced in his facsimile edition. Bound at the Riverside Press with their small rubberstamp on the lower front flyleaf.