Kit Carson Fremont (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Hurst & Co., 1835. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Scuff marks on front cover. Stains on back cover. Rear hinge just barely starting to crack. Lightly read. No markings in book. Binding is fine. Rubbing to cover corner tips. Published in the 1880s.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth, with Arlington Edition stamped on cover, 493 pages, frontis, very slight cover wear, interior very clean, a dust jacket with foxing and chipping to edges. The first 70 pages are on Kit Carson with the remainder being, "A Narrative of Adventures and Explorations to the Country Between the Missouri River and The Rocky Mountains… " on Fremont. Although 1885 is on the copyright page, this edition was most likely printed in the late 1880s, and the jacket certainly is rare.…

A sensationalized look at two of the most famous figures in the Wild West, typified by the language in the title itself. The first fifth of the book includes a biography of Kit Carson; the majority of the text is taken up with Fremont's report about his explorations of the Missouri, Kansas, and Platte Rivers, and a route through the Rocky Mountains. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in black, spine gilt. Spine sunned, minor edge wear. Hinges cracked, text uniformly tanned. Good. In a modern half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt, leather labels.…