RACHAEL PLUMMER'S NARRATIVE of Twenty-One Months Servitude as a Prisoner among the Commanchee Indians.
by Plummer, Rachael
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- Hardcover
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- FINE
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Blanco, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Austin: Jenkins Publishing, 1977. Limited Edition. Hardcover. FINE. Reproduced from the only known copy. Preface Archibald Hanna, introduction Wm. Reese, #342 of 400 copies SIGNED by Hanna and Reese. Brown cloth backed buckskin boards, gilt titles, no names, no writing.
"Rarest of all Indian captivities and the rarest Texas book, known only as a probably non-existent ghost. A copy is now at Yale, original was printed in Houston in 1838. It recounts one of the most amazing tales of Indian capture and captivity of a Texan woman and her children by the ferocious Comanche Indians." - John Jenkins who has here re-issued in an edition of 400 numbered, autographed copies.
"Rarest of all Indian captivities and the rarest Texas book, known only as a probably non-existent ghost. A copy is now at Yale, original was printed in Houston in 1838. It recounts one of the most amazing tales of Indian capture and captivity of a Texan woman and her children by the ferocious Comanche Indians." - John Jenkins who has here re-issued in an edition of 400 numbered, autographed copies.
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- Bookseller
- Maggie Lambeth (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5548
- Title
- RACHAEL PLUMMER'S NARRATIVE of Twenty-One Months Servitude as a Prisoner among the Commanchee Indians.
- Author
- Plummer, Rachael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Jenkins Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- captives
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