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Sale 234: Americana, Voyages, Exploration (#234) 01/10/2002 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 01/10/2002 1:00 PM PST

Lot #60 Tenting on the Plains

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$281.25

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Title:

Tenting on the Plains

Author:

Custer, Elizabeth B.

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Harper

Date Published:

[1887, but later]

Description:

x, [17]-403 pp. Illus. from drawings by Frederic Remington & A. Berghaus, plus a few from photographs, maps, etc. 7¼x4¾, original pictorial cloth lettered in gilt.

Inscribed by Elizabeth Custer on the front free endpaper, "Motto on General Custer's Spanish Sword, `Do not draw me without cause, Do not sheathe without honor.' Elizabeth Custer, Intiora, 1912." The book deals with George Armstrong Custer's experiences from the end of the Civil War to 1867. (Luther 5; Dustin 77.)

Condition:

Spine darkened, rubbing to ends and corners, some minor staining and soiling to the covers; book label on front pastedown, small monogram rubberstamp to top corner of front free endpaper, else very good.

Item#:

110374
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