[Rarebooks] FS: FS: "Captivity of the Oatman Girls... by the Apache Indians" NY: 1858

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(AMERICANA) Stratton, Royal B.  CAPTIVITY OF THE OATMAN GIRLS; Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians. Containing an Interesting Account of the Massacre of the Oatman Family, by the Apache Indians, in 1851... the Five Years' Suffering and Captivity of Olivia A. Oatman; Also Her Singular Recapture in 1856... Fourteenth Thousand [i.e., the 3rd, Enlarged Edition]. New York: Printed for the Author. 1858. 290pp. Plus 2pp. "Notices of the Press." Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait, a map, 4 plates and 10 text drawings. Orig. blind stamped brown cloth, pictorial gilt spine. Spine rebacked and original cloth spine laid back down. Minor fraying at edges.    $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work was originally published as, "Life Among the Indians." Wagner-Camp 294:4; Howes: The Final Edition S1075; Sabin 92742.

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