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Published by Mentor Association, New York, 1920
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
Printed wrapper. Condition: Near Fine. Twelve page booklet featuring the American pioneers and explorers, Daniel Boone, David Crockett, John Charles Fremont, George Rogers Clark, Stephen Fuller Austin, and Christopher Carson. Six sepia gravures of the these pioneers laid in. A near fine copy. Book.
Published by Printed for the Author: By Davidson & Bourne, Harrisonburg, 1813
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
252, 12 pp. "List of Subscribers" last 12 pages, which lists names, in 3 columns per page [~ 60 names / column], from 11 states: Virginia [7 pp], Kentucky [3 pp], Tennessee [1 page], Ohio [2/3 page] & Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, South Carolina, Connecticut, North Carolina, & Louisiana comprising the last 1+ columns. Of particular interest today is the large number of women so listed throughout this early 19th C. subscriber list, providing strong evidence of their literary interests & financial wherewithal [easily an academic project to research these women, and gather additional demographics for this group]. 12mo. 6-1/2" x 4" From Harris we learn the author was born in Virginia, served as a State Senator, and subsequently as Postmaster at Georgetown. Captain Jacob Ritner, a self-styled "MOUNTAIN MUSE" [in his hand, under his signature to the front paste-down], played a role in "most of the major military events of the Western Theater: Wilson's Creek, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, the Atlanta Campaign including the Battle of Atlanta, Sherman's March to the Sea, the Occupation of Savannah, and the Carolina's Campaign." Perhaps he viewed himself as a mid-19th Century Daniel Boone? A nice copy of this heroic poem centered on one of America's frontier icons. General wear to binding. Usual age-toning & foxing to paper; ffep lacking lower quarter. Prior owner signatures [one dated 1858] of Jacob, and Emeline, Ritner. A solid VG copy. Period full brown sheep binding with red leather gilt stamped title label to spine with 7 horizontal rules to same, speckled edges 1st edition (American Imprints 28029; Field 199; Harris Collection, p. 42; Sabin 8787; Wegelin 889).