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Middleboro, MA: Lawrence B. Romaine, Weathercock House. Very Good in Good dust jacket; Jacket toned and worn.. [1956]. Hardcover. Gray cloth spine with marbled paper-covered boards and glassine jacket. A facsimile publication of a rare 1817 narrative of the lengthy captivity among Native Americans of an American soldier who survived the Fort Dearborn Massacre during the War of 1812. One of 250 copies. Foreword by R. W. G. Vail.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

(Middleboro, Massachusetts: Lawrence B. Romaine), 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Gray tape-backed decorated paper boards. Touch of wear at the corners else fine. A facsimile edition of a rare 1817 narrative pamphlet of James Van Horne, an American soldier who was taken captive by Native Americans at the Fort Dearborn Massacre during the War of 1812.

Middleboro, VT: Lawrence B. Romaine, 1956. Book. Near fine condition. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo (8vo). [ix] pages of introductory text followed by [i], 18, [i] pages of facsimile of an Indian captivity narrative originally published in 1817 which is otherwise almost unknown to exist. Limited to 250 copies printed, of which this is hand-numbered 113. Signed and inscribed on the front endpaper by the publisher, Lawrence Romaine. Includes the original glassene wrapper. The text is clean and unmarked..