Chief Seattle - SIGNED Copy with Dust Jacket
Caldwell Idaho: Caxton Printers Ltd., 1943. Fern Cousineau Ducan illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo. Pp. 390. Frontis. line drawing. Illustrated with color reproductions of Duncan gouache paintings and numerous black line drawings in the text. With glossary of Chinook words, notes and index. Author signed and dated June 1943 on verso of the FFEP. Red, blue and gilt cloth covered boards, color map endpapers: previous owner ink notations above author signature and "1st edition" beneath copyright line, transparent tape repairs to final blank leaf closed tears, else crisp and square. In the color illustrated dust jacket with author portrait photo on back, publisher advertising verso, original price intact on the front flap: transparent tape repaired short closed tears and toning to edges. Very Good / Very Good. Item #12211 Dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve.
The flap blurb proclaims this to be the first complete biography of Chief Sealth, to "be read with the fascination usually tendered to books of adventure and romance." Anderson was a prominent Washington educator and resident of Lake Chelan. SMITH, 227; TWENEY 89, 2.
Price: $75.00