French james attributed (3 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First English Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 209 pages; Bound in 1/2 cloth and boards. Light rubbing and wear. The scarce 1st English edition.

(CROCKETT, David). FRENCH, James S. (attributed). Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee. London: O. Rich, 1834. 209 pp. In later calf-backed marbled boards. The leather at both joints is separating, but the boards remain fairly well attached. Rippling from moisture exposure to the bottom quarter of the textblock. Sabin 17573. Howes C-898: "Spurious biography, not authorized by Crockett; attributed to James S. French." This is the scarce London edition, issued a year after the first American edition printed in Cincinnati under a slightly different title.…

(CROCKETT, DAVID). [FRENCH, James S. (attributed)]. The Life and Adventures of Colonel David Crockett, of West Tennessee. Cincinnati: Published for the Proprietor, 1833. 1st ed. 12mo. 204 pp. In orig. boards tastefully rebacked to style in muslin. Manuscript title and ownership markings on the front cover and the rear pastedown as well as page 99. Boards are stained. Contents are foxed with scattered browning and staining. Very good or nearly so. Howes C-898, "aa." Sabin 17568. Midland Notes 34-158. First edition of this famous account, one of the great American sagas, and the root of many legends. It appeared later in many versions and editions. Howes refers to this as a "spurious biography, not authorized by Crockett; attributed to James S. French." Sabin does not give any collation, and Howes lists this first edition with only 113 pages. The NUC cites this edition, with 204 pages as in the present copy, in one copy only. All OCLC holdings note 204 pages.…