[Rarebooks] FS: THE GREAT SCOUTS Inscribed and Signed by Buffalo Bill

[Charles Agvent]

 From our latest Catalogue now posted on our website: 
http://www.erols.com/agvent.  It contains 34 select items in a variety 
of fields.  Highlights include Catlin's NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS (1876) 
with color prints, a first edition of Goethe's FAUSTUS, the signed 
limited first edition of THE LITTLE PRINCE, several fine illustrated and 
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(CODY, William F. "Buffalo Bill") WETMORE, Helen Cody. THE LAST OF
THE  GREAT  SCOUTS: THE LIFE STORY OF COL. WILLIAM F.  CODY  ("BUFFALO
BILL").  [Duluth]: [Duluth Press Printing Co.] [1899]. First  Edition.
The  true  First  Edition  in the original  dark  green  cloth  with a
buffalo   head  embossed  on  the   front  cover;  (xiv),  267  pages.
Illustrated  with  19 inserted plates after sketches  and  photographs
and  32  illustrated  chapter initials. INSCRIBED and  SIGNED  by  the
subject   on  the  half-title  page:   "With  the  Compliments/of  the
Subject/W.  F.  Cody/'Buffalo Bill'/To A. T. Taylor/Oct.  14th  1899."
Graff  4616;  Howes  W-297. Typical slight brittleness  to  the  cheap
paper;  front  hinge  partly cracked but neatly  repaired  and  tight;
slight  wear  to spine tips with possible repair to spine  edge.  Very
Good or better and increasingly scarce.                       $3500.00

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