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Philip St. George Cooke, 1857.
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Scenes and Adventures in the Army: or Romance of Military Life
Philip St. George Cooke, 1857.
COOKE, Philip St. George (1809-1895). Scenes and Adventures in the Army: or Romance of Military Life. Philadelphia: Lindsey & Blakiston, 1857.
First edition of this personal narrative of an Army officer on the Plains; with possible Melville connection. "This volume spans the exciting period from [Cooke's] posting at Fort Atkinson on the Missouri in 1831, through his overland journey escorting emigrants from Fort Leavenworth to Oregon in 1845 and return via Bent's Fort ... Readers have noted that the text seems written by two utterly different voices, and there is a theory that part of it was possibly ghostwritten by Herman Melville" (Best of the West). Best of the West 145; Howes C740; Graff 781; Rader 914; Sabin 16339 (erroneously citing an 1850 edition); Streeter sale 3063; Wagner-Camp 288.
Octavo. (Light spotting, mostly at ends, intermittent foxing.) Original red cloth, spine gilt (recased with new endpapers, a few small stains). A few light smudges on cloth, stain at foot of spine. Provenance: Julian C. Baker of Gallatin, Tennessee (two early ownership inscriptions partially effaced, ink stamp to first leaf of text).
Philip St. George Cooke, 1857.
COOKE, Philip St. George (1809-1895). Scenes and Adventures in the Army: or Romance of Military Life. Philadelphia: Lindsey & Blakiston, 1857.
First edition of this personal narrative of an Army officer on the Plains; with possible Melville connection. "This volume spans the exciting period from [Cooke's] posting at Fort Atkinson on the Missouri in 1831, through his overland journey escorting emigrants from Fort Leavenworth to Oregon in 1845 and return via Bent's Fort ... Readers have noted that the text seems written by two utterly different voices, and there is a theory that part of it was possibly ghostwritten by Herman Melville" (Best of the West). Best of the West 145; Howes C740; Graff 781; Rader 914; Sabin 16339 (erroneously citing an 1850 edition); Streeter sale 3063; Wagner-Camp 288.
Octavo. (Light spotting, mostly at ends, intermittent foxing.) Original red cloth, spine gilt (recased with new endpapers, a few small stains). A few light smudges on cloth, stain at foot of spine. Provenance: Julian C. Baker of Gallatin, Tennessee (two early ownership inscriptions partially effaced, ink stamp to first leaf of text).
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