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Publication Date: 2023
Seller: True World of Books, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. 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. 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: 571.
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1892
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Octavo. New edition, edited with preface by Charles G. Leland (Hans Breitmann). Frontispiece, 440 pages. James Beckwourth (Beckwith) was born into slavery in 1798 (or 1800) in Frederick County, Virginia. He was in his early 20's when he joined General William Ashley's Rocky Mountain Fur Company. He became one of the most well-known of the trappers and mountain men. He lived among the Crow Indians, returned to fight for the U.S. Army in the Second Seminole War in Florida. In 1843 he left for California where he discovered the Beckwourth Pass (a low elevation passes through the Sierra Nevada Mountain chain. In the old West, his amazing resourcefulness was respected among the Westerners and his African American origins did not hinder his advancement. Bound in light brown cloth stamped in gilt and black on lower right corner, double red spine labels gilt, with gilt decorations, top edge gilt, light wear to spine ends and corners, front and rear hinges had been previously reglued, some finger soiling. boards. There is a small photographic image of Beckwourth with a small biography. A very good copy.