Ebenezer Mix (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Twenty-second edition. Front hinge just beginning to loosen, ink name and pencil name and address on front endpaper, 1 inch closed tear to bottom margin of title page, 1 inch closed internal tear to rear flyleaf and last index page. 1942 Hard Cover. xv, 459 pp. 8vo. This edition presents the first edition literally restored, together with chapters added to later editions by Ebenezer Mix, Lewis Henry Morgan, LL.D., William Clement Bryant, and William Pryor Letchworth, LL.D. Enlarged with historical and archaeological memoranda and critical notes by modern authorities. The original edition was published in 1824 (Howes S-263: 'One of the most authentic and interesting of captivity narratives, told by one who spent a long life among the Senecas and was the first white woman to descend the Ohio.'), and quickly republished in London in 1826 (Sabin 78678, Church 1334: 'This well written narrative, purporting to be only the biography of a captive among the Senecas, is really the best resume we have of incidents in the history and common life of the Seneca Indians. Its truthfulness is vouched for by such veracious testimony as that of Eli Parker, an educated chief of that nation, though its authenticity can scarcely have greater corroboration than the fact that Mr. Seaver received almost the whole mass of incidents narrated in his book, directly from the lips of the aged captive herself. - FIELD. Forty years had passed since the close of the revolutionary war, and almost seventy years had seen Mrs. Jemison with the Indians, when Daniel W. Banister, Esq., at the instance of several gentlemen, and prompted by his own ambition to add something to the accumulating fund of useful knowledge, resolved, in the autumn of 1823, to embrace that time, while she was capable of recollecting and reciting the scenes through which she had passed to collect from herself, and to publish to the world, an accurate account of her life. - Introduction, p. viii. At this time Mrs. Jemison was about eighty years of age, and was living in the neighborhood of Genesee River, about four miles from Castile, New York, to which place she went on foot to meet the author and his publisher and tell the story of her life.'). Those editions were both fewer than 200 pages, which gives a good idea of how much content has been added for this publication.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First edition thus (same date on title and copyright pages with no additional printings listed) , expanded from the 1824 printing. Original blindstamped decorative brown cloth, stamped gilt lettering, 4x6 inches, 192 pp, no illustrations. Hardcover, fair. Corners bumped with cardboard exposed there and at spots along edges of boards, ½ inch chip off lower left corner of front board, some tattering and chipping along spine, heavily foxed, shaken, hinge cracks between several of the gatherings, previous owner's signature (in pencil) , otherwise clean and unmarked. History; Americana; Native American Indian; Indigenous Peoples; Indian captivity; biography; New York (Full title: Deh-He-Wa-Mis : Or, a Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison: Otherwise Called the White Woman, Who Was Taken Captive by the Indians in MDCCLV ; and Who Continued with Them Seventy Eight Years. Containing an Account of the Murder of Her Father and His Family; Her Marriages and Sufferings: Indian Barbarities, Customs and Traditions. Carefully Taken from Her Own Words, by James E. Seaver. Also the Life of Hiokatoo, and Ebenezer Allen: a Sketch Of The Six Nations, the Genesee Country, and Other Interesting Facts Connected with the Narrative by Ebenezer Mix. ; The Six Nations, the Genesee Country, and Other Interesting Facts Connected with the Narrative by Ebenezer Mix.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 192pp. Dark brown blindstamped cloth with gilt title. Cloth is chipped at the book corners with some bumping. Previous owner's names on the front flyleaf. MC.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Bound in publisher's dark green blinbd-stamped cloth with spine and front cover lettered in gilt, tight and unmarked with light age toning and spotting throughout, 192 pages, light overall handling wear, binding slightly tilted; overall Good++.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1842 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 208 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 208 Language: English.