Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1941. Lenski, Lois. 7th Printing. Hard Cover. Good / Fair. Item #2354446
7th printing. Very good in fair jacket. Signed by author without inscription on half-title page. A couple tiny smudges on boards, jacket edges heavily worn with loss from top edge and corners, jacket toned, ink name and date on front flyleaf. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked.
xviii, 269, [1] pp. 8vo. Original beige cloth, red titles and decorations, illustrated endpapers, color frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations by Lois Lenski throughout. Includes: Introduction by Arthur C. Parker; Foreword; Come What May; The Long Journey; Fort Duquesne; Seneca Town; Lost in Sorrow; A Singing Bird; Slow Weaving; A Second Captivity; By the Falling Waters; Old Fallenash; Running Deer; Porcupine Quills; Willing Sacrifice; A New Cooking Pot; The Rattlesnake; Born of a Long Ripening.
Price: $350.00