Alvin Salisbury (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. New Edition. Near-fine condition hardcover book, new edition, 1968. All maps included. The title on front cover and on spine are paste-downs on every single copy; the one on the spine has a very small chip. Light foxing inside front cover, as common with all copies of this edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Reprint. Edgeworn covers, all edges, some light staining and soil to covers. ; Fold-outs, "A New Edition with Numerous Folding Maps and Illustrations". ; 37 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [8],35pp. plus seven folding maps and plates. Cloth backed boards. The cover rubbed with minor blemishes; the text unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile of the 1797 edition. Mustard paper over boards with title laid on in paper. Deckle page edges. Numerous folding maps and diagrams . Light soiling to back cover. Photos of book on request.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. Limited. Book has minor wear thus very good plus. Foldouts are present. Book.

1968. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 37pp. Tan paper-covered boards over brown cloth spine with paper title labels on the front cover and spine. Folding maps, illustrations. The front cover title label is rubbed. "This is Daniel Boon's story as he told it in 1783 to John Filson, Pennsylvania schoolmaster turned traveler. With the addition of old maps and illustrations to his Adventures, the reader glimpses America's great frontiersman as he first appeared to the world and views the western wilderness as it looked to Daniel Boon" - from the Introduction. Book about Daniel Boon & Wars of Kentucky. Time Period 18th Century. Locale: Kentucky; Western America. (Western America, Adventure and Adventurers, Colonization, Indians of North America, Land Claims, Settlement--United States). …

Alvin Salisbury assembled this handsome reprint with the help of the Kentucky State Historical Society Museum, adding the illustrations from several sources. Written in the form of an autobiography of Boone by Filson and originally published as an appendix to Filson's DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT, AND PRESENT STATE OF KENTUCKE (1784). This edition is from Filson's narrative as reprinted by Gilbert Imlay in his TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION (London, 1797). According to Salisbury's introduction, additions were taken from the source to augment the Boon tale. OCLC 13012426. [8],35pp. plus seven folding maps and plates. Original half cloth and paper-covered boards, paper labels. Minor wear to extremities. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Near fine.…