The Making of Buffalo Bill a Study in Heroics

The first edition of this detailed biography on the life of American showman Buffalo Bill. The first edition.An entertaining biography on the life and career of Buffalo Bill.Buffalo Bill was an American showman, soldier, and bison hunter. He was famous for his captivating tours, which began touring the States in 1883, and Europe in 1887.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and thirty plates.Collated, bound without one plate, to face page 18.By Richard J. Walsh, in collaboration with Milton S. Salsbury.An ex-institutional copy, rebound, with stamps. Rebound in a cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light rubbing to the boards and spine. Institutional ink to the tail of the spine. Minor bumping to the extremities. Only a few small marks to the boards. Institutional stamp to the bottom edge. Stamps to the front paste down, and front endpaper, with torn label to the rear paste down and an instructional label to the verso of the rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional handling mark. Stamp to the title page, and to a few other pages. Tape repair to pages 43/44, 109/110, and 213. Repair to the tail of pages 189-292 and 369-372, and to the margin of the list of plates. Lacking one plate. Good.…