Kaskaskia, Signed (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by Good at half-title page: "For_ and _/ With kindest personal regards/ Mary Elizabeth Good/ August 8, 1972". Clean and tight w/ light toning. wear and soiling to wraps. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Signed by the author & dated 2 August 2002. The author has also provided a brief addenda in pencil to a preliminary leaf. NEAR FINE copy in glazed pictorial boards. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Political letter from Western explorer Zebulon Pike, sent from Kaskaskia, then part of the Northwest Territory, in September 1808 to Samuel C. Vance in Lawrenceburg, Indiana Territory. In the letter, Pike requests political support from Vance for his friend, Robert Morrison (1770-1842), one of the early settlers of Kaskaskia. Single sheet, 12.5" x 7.75", one page of text with Pike's hand-addressed panel to the reverse, with recipient's docketing. Some discoloration to left margin, with a few areas of loss to folds. Sent just prior to the separation of Illinois Territory from Indiana Territory in 1809, the letter links the famed explorer of the Southwest, having just returned from his second major expedition, with the political history of the Old Northwest, where Pike would later serve under William Henry Harrison in the Battle of Tippecanoe. Letters from Pike are scarce in commerce, as are letters sent from Illinois during the pre-Territorial period. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. First Edition. Near fine in blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Tiny initials and date at top right corner of front endpaper. 103 pages plus a 25 page name index. Signed by the author on the Introduction page. Signed by Author.