Gardner Sharp Abigail (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Fourteenth Edition. Cover is in excellent condition, save for minimal rubbing. Text is otherwise tight in binding. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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

hardcover. Condition: Good. 11th Printing. This volume is well read, with edge wear & rubbing on the cover cloth and edge worn pages. Spine is slightly tweaked and shows light bumping. Interiors are clean and unmarked, binding of the text block is firm.

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.…

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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