Abigail Gardner Sharp (5 results)

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. (4)386pp. Illustrated. Facsimile of the 1885 edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth with yellow lettering and pictorial stamping. 386pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Much, much later facsimile reprint of one of the most famed of all Indian captivity narratives, first published in Des Moines in 1885. The Spirit Lake Massacre was a noted 1856 incident in which a small group of Sioux in northwestern Iowa attacked and killed 35 to 40 white settlers and kidnapped four young women, including 14-year-old Gardner. AYER 263. HOWES S 330.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Hardcover, no dust jacket. - full black cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine and gold title and illustration stamped on front. Sewn binding. 386 pages, with frontispiece, Appendix (testimonials). Stated 10th Edition, Printing unknown. Page-by-page facsimile reprint of 1923 (9th) edition, with frontispiece portrait of author dated 1918. CONDITION: VERY GOOD, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked. Former owner's address sticker on ffep; light rubbing, spotting, and shelfwear to boards; gilt on covers no longer bright. CONTENT: Fascinating first-person account of the attack and massacre at Spirit Lake, Iowa. and the captivity of Abigail Gardner and other women prisoners taken by the renegade group of Sioux. Added to this edition is a one-page Publisher's Note dated January 1971 that explains the publication history of the book. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.

Condition: Very Good +. Spirit Lake, IA: Dickinson County Historical Society and Museum, 1990. Twelfth Edition. Octavo (20.3cm); publishers faux leather boards with gilt lettering and decoration; [4],iv,352pp; illus. Boards are clean and square with light rubbing at corners and spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Facsimile of the 1885 Mills & co. First Edition of Gardner-Sharp's captivity memoir of the last Native American attack on Iowan settlers, which was seen as a precursor of the 1862 Sioux uprising in Minnesota. For the first edition see Sabin 32214; Howes L-210.

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