Search Results: history of the sioux war and by heard isaac v

Millwood, New York: Kraus Reprint Co., 1975. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. 354pp. Bound into green boards. Facsimile of the Harper & Brothers 1864 printing.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1964. Cloth - Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 8vo. 354 pages, plus ads; Binding Copy; Missing spine cover and rear board; Recto of frontispiece has writing; Scattered penciled underlines and marginalia; Last few leaves with closed tear from outside edge, not affecting text.

Harper & Bros. Collectible - Good. Condition: Good; Hardcover. Green cloth binding with gilt printing on spine. 354 pages with portraits and illustrations. The book is in Good condition with clean pages and a tight binding. Soiling and wear wear to covers. Internally repaired with new endpages. Photos upon request.

New York: Harper & Brothers. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1863. First Edition. Hardcover. Wear to covers -- corners worn through, front outer hinge cloth split and repaired, spme loss at spine ends. A few small tears to pages with old repairs. 33 engraved illustrations -- full and partial page. Howes H378a. Small bookplate. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 354 pages .

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1865.. Early edition.. publisher's cloth. . Rubbed and frayed at extremities; but still tight and sound.. 12mo,. With portraits and illustrations.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1865. Very Good. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1865. Early edition. Octavo. 354 pp. Black and white portraits and illustrations, complete. Publisher's blind-stamped green boards with gilt lettering to spine; pale orange endpapers. Corners bumped and brief exposure along bottom edge. Binding sound and interior unmarked. Field comments on this history: "The gloomy details of this dreadful massacre, lead us to inquire the cause of such an apparently unexplainable frenzy for slaughter..." and notes the causes that led to the conflict, as the Sioux people were "pushed back from their fertile and game-thronged hunting-grounds, to sterile lands unfrequented by the animals upon which they subsist, deluded by promises of annuities which fail to come, while their wives and children perish by famine or cold." [Sabin 31178; Howes H378; Field 875].

N.Y.: Harpers & Brothers, 1863. Book. Good +. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 354pgs + ads cloth with gilt lettering , illustrated, wear to exterior, and tips, G+ The author was a member of General Sibley's expedition against the savages in 1862. Rader 1838 Howes 378a.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First edition. 8vo., 354 pp., frontis portrait and other illustrations. Half red morocco, front joint slightly rubbed, all edges marbled. Owner's engraved bookplate. A very good copy. Howes H-378a.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-x, [3], 14-354, [1]-2 (pages of publisher's advertisements), [4] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with decorations and borders in blind on the boards, gilt lettering and an Indigenous American in gilt on the spine. Illustrated with several full-page and in-text engravings. Field 675. Howes 378a. Rader 1838. Storm 272. Difficult to find in the original cloth. The spine ends and corners visibly rubbed, a few previous owners' inscriptions, one leaf with a few small brown discolorations.