Remmington Frederic (3 results)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, first issue with "Frederick" on the covers, 32mo, original blue cloth over boards, silver stamping on covers and spine. Consisting of stories taken from American artist and writer Frederic Remmington's books, Crooked Trails and Pony Tracks. Very good, light shelf wear, bottom two inches of front free endpaper detached.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Frederic Remmington (illustrator). 1st Edition. In 1892, a special edition of Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail, originally published in 1847, was issued with 77 illustrations by Frederic Remington. Parkman's work contained some of the earliest accounts of life on the prairie and in the Rocky Mountains. The work features numerous full page and in-text illustrations by Frederic Remington printed on coated paper. The frontispiece is a Remington illustration which is protected by a tissue guard. Measures 9" x 6". In May 1846, the twenty-three-year-old Bostonian Francis Parkman, recently graduated from Harvard Law School, also came to Westport, Missouri, intent on visiting an Indian village somewhere along the newly established roads to the West. The Oregon Trail, the book that came out of the notes Parkman took along the way to Ft. Laramie, in an Oglala village, and around Bent's Fort in Southeastern Colorado, came to have a lasting impact on generations of readers, shaping their views of Native Americans. "When Parkman accompanied his cousin Quincy Adams Shaw on a tour of the west, the outing seemed a summer's romantic rambles "out of bounds." It was, rather, another calculated step in the career he had staked out for himself whatever adverse effects it may have incurred. Parkman had spent previous vacations roaming the receding wilderness areas of New England, and during his senior year at Harvard he had been to Europe for seven months, on the grand tour. Now, in further preparation for his calling as America's historian of colonial times, he wanted to inspect what was left of the continent's native population in its original habitat. "What Parkman saw on his trail, convinced him that the Indian was doomed; but he was not too worried about that insight. If the realistic descriptions contained in The Oregon Trail offered a correction of the image sentimental fiction produced about the Noble Savage, they were also laden with 'condescension that Melville recognized as the genteel New Englander's conception of progress' . "In the numerous accounts and the more obscure journals that make 1846 perhaps the best-documented year in the history of the West, there runs a predominant symbol of civilization and security the road but Parkman seems particularly to have sensed the importance of that symbol, to have understood how the road, stretching westward in vast isolation and terrifying loneliness, dominated the imagination of those who traveled it" (E. N. Feldskog, editor of the 1994 edition). "Recreat[es] for us, as perhaps no other book in our literature, the wonder and beauty and intensity of life in a new world that is now old and but a memory." Henry Steele Commager. "The acknowledged masterpiece of America's most readable historian" (Printing and the Mind of Man, describing the first edition of 1849). "Born at Canton, New York, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) became the foremost turn-of -the-century illustrator, painter, and sculptor of western action-packed subjects with cowboys, Indians, horses, soldiers, and other frontier characters. Very good copy of this important work. Tan cloth boards with a bit of soiling and a tiny bit of fraying at the head and foot of the spine and the tips of the boards. There is a previous owners inscription in an early 20th century hand that states Frederic Dallett from Ella, Xmas 1900. This is in all likelihood a 2nd printing of the first edition as the list of illustrations is present which it was not in the first printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Remmington, Frederic (illustrator). 1st Edition. No date. 8vo. Pp xiii, 180. Frontis & lates. Original cloth. Top edge gilt. Spine darkened and hinges rubbed. Light wear to head & foot of spine.Light satin to the top edge of the text block through to page 13.