THE NARRATIVE OF SAMUEL HANCOCK 1845-1860 by Hancock, Samuel (introduction by Arthur D. Howden Smith) - 1927

New York. Robert McBride & Company. 1928. 8vo. 21cm, xv,217p., double-page map, black cloth, gilt spine titles, former owner's blind stamp on p.ix., a fine copy (gar). ~ Number One of The Argonaut Series with an Introduction by Arthur D. Howden Smith. A first-person account of the Oregon Emigration of 1845 including a map of the Oregon Trail.

R.M. McBride & Company, 1927. Unknown Binding. Very Good. Mcbride. 1927. First edition. No dust jacket. Corners sharp and hinges sound. Minimal wear.

Geo Harrap London 1927. First UK edition. Green cloth, 217pp. Cloth flecked, inscription o/w good. No dj.

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. [i-iv], v-xxii, 1-217. With a map reproduced from Mitchell's New Map of Texas, Oregon and California (1846). Full seafoam green cloth with lettering stamped on spine in black. Lower spine and a good section of rear cover with a bleached dampstain, not affecting dust jacket, nor rear pastedown or endpapers (please see photo). In the decorative color dust jacket with a chip at the head of spine and two closed tears on rear panel. First printing, with a variant binding from that described by Tweney. Despite the stain and dust jacket afflictions, the book retains shelf appeal due to the brightness of the dust jacket. Please see photos. Includes an account of the Whitman massacre, trading with Native Americans on Puget Sound, and Hancock's pursuit of farming on Whidbey Island, where he settled. His overland account was used by Bancroft in chapter XIX of "The History of Oregon." SMITH, 4027. SOLIDAY I:1015, TWENEY… Read More

London; (1927): George G. Harrap & Co. Octavo. 217pp., being a description of Hancock's journey to Oregon in 1845: His adventures and sufferings; His escape from the Indians; His gold seeking expedition to California and encounters with robbers there; The wreck of the Cayuga and his near starvation and his life as a trader among the Indians along with his adventures whaling, fishing captivity among the Indians, etc. with an introduction by Arthur D. Howden Smith, illustrated with a double page map of the Oregon trail. with publisher's notice tipped in before title page. Bound in dark green cloth, spine letting gilt, top edge stained green, minor bumping to corners, off-setting to front and rear endpapers otherwise a very nice copy in clipped printed dust jacket with very minor wear to head and some toning to edges and spine.