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The Life of the Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill by CODY, William F. (Buffalo Bill)
First edition
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Book desription: Hartford, CT: Frank E. Bliss, 1879. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. The Autobiography of Buffalo Bill Cody Signed and Dated CODY, William F. The Life of the Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill. Hartford: CT: Frank E. Bliss, 1879. Illustrated. Original brown cloth with gilt buffalo device on front cover. Expertly rebacked, in clamshell case. Very Good Condition. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed in the year of publication. “Yours Truly/W.F. Cody/Buffalo Bill/Oct. 25th ’79.” “My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845 in the state of Iowa ” So begins this self-spun yarn by one of America’s greatest Tall-Tale Tellers. From his earliest years as Pony Express rider, through Civil War enlistment as a scout for the Union Army in Tennessee, and his renown as a hunter of both buffalo and Indians, William F. Cody managed to infuse each incarnation of himself with the stuff of legends. Indeed his greatest achievement, outranking even the international fame of his Wild West Shows, was his phenomenal promotion of himself. Buffalo Bill did much to introduce the mythology of the American West to his country’s gullible City Slickers, and thereby secured his own home-cooked immortality by the mere mention of his name. Signed First Editions of Cody’s autobiography are Very Rare. Only a handful of inscribed copies have been on the market in the past 20 years.
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