The Scout and Ranger; Being the Personal Adventures of Corporal Pike, of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry

Octavo, xi, [1], 19-394pp, [errata]. Publisher's cloth, boards stamped in blind, title in gilt on the spine. Spine was re-laid over new cloth, hinges reinforced. Presumably damaged in the bindery fire in 1866, which left only 100 copies, all of which needed repairs to the binding. Notable wear along boards, rubbing with loss of cloth. Complete with twenty-five full-page engravings, including the portrait frontispiece of Corporal Pike. All plates with notable toning, light foxing. This copy bears the ownership inscription of the Woodrow family of Hillsboro, Ohio, where the author wrote the book. (Howes P-369) (Graff 3286) (Sabin 62818) (Nevins I, p. 146) (Dornbusch I, OH 56) (Coulter 372) (Rader 2671) The first issue, with the oval portrait frontispiece and with the words "Indian Red" at the end of the third line on p. 151. Pike traveled to Texas in 1859 and joined John Henry Brown's company of Texas Rangers at Belton, serving in campaigns against the Comanches before returning north at the outbreak of the Civil War. He enlisted in the 4th Ohio Cavalry and served extensively as a scout and spy behind Confederate lines in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Pike returned to Hillsboro, Ohio after the war and completed this account in 1865. Jenkins calls the book an important account of both Texas Ranger service and Pike's later work as a Union spy.…