The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley by West, Nathaniel

Minnesota: Pioneer Press Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hard Cover. good+. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. (light soiling to front cover.) 596pp Some rubbing at tail of spine.

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Pioneer Press. Used - Good. 1889. Hardcover. Cloth, 596 pp. Ex-library, with usual stamps and labels. A good copy otherwise. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Sound working copy.

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Minnesota: Pioneer Press Publishing Co., 1889. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 596pp. Bound into grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine. There is a 5 x 4 cm paper repair on the title page, not effecting text. Front gutter starting. Poet and collector Eugene Field's name is written on the title page. There is also Mark Twain's "signature" (almost assuredly a forgery) on the front fixed endpaper. Field's son, Eugene Field II, was asounded by how much he could make selling signed books from his late father's library, who passed in 1895. Eventually Eugene II ran out of authentic books and entered into a partnership with forger Harry Dayton Sickles. Together, they forged signatures and used the provenance of Eugene Sr's book collection to sell cheap books with forged signatures to unsuspecting collectors. They are known to have forged signatures of many collectible figures most notably Abraham Lincoln, Frederic Remington, and Mark Twain on not so desirable books. This makes any… Read More

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Saint Paul, Minn: Pioneer Press Publishing, 1889. First Edition. Octavo. Portrait frontispiece, 596pp. (1)pp. errata. Sibley was the first governor of the state of Minnesota, an ex-member of U.S. Congress, member of the American geographical society; first delegate from the Territory,. Brevet Major General U.S.V., commander of the Loyal Legion of Minnesota; president of board of regents of the state university, of the state historical society, of the state normal school board, etc. He was appointed Justice of the Peace for both Mackinae, Michigan and Clayton, Ohio, foreman of the first grand jury impaneled west of the Mississippi, a commissioned colonel commanding the Indian expedition, he was commissioned to negotiate treaties with the Indians, also doctor of laws by the trustees of Princeton College, appropriations of Congress to the Territory of Minnesota. Bound in olive green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, floral endpapers, light wear to corners. A very good copy.