Item #12309 Ten Years of Missionary Work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 - INSCRIBED to Edmond Meany. Rev. Myron EELLS.
Ten Years of Missionary Work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 - INSCRIBED to Edmond Meany
Ten Years of Missionary Work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 - INSCRIBED to Edmond Meany
Ten Years of Missionary Work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 - INSCRIBED to Edmond Meany
Ten Years of Missionary Work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 - INSCRIBED to Edmond Meany

Ten Years of Missionary Work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884 - INSCRIBED to Edmond Meany

Boston: Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society, (1886). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. x, 271. Frontis. illustration with tissue guard. Illustrated with engraved views, portraits and drawings of artifacts in the text. Brown publisher's cloth, titles and rules stamped in gilt. Label shadow at foot of spine, edges rubbed and corners bumped, hinges skillfully repaired, new rear pastedown. Bookplate of Edmond S. Meany to the front pastedown. Inscribed by the author to Meany and dated Nov. 29, 1889. Scarce thus. Very Good. Item #12309

An account of Protestant missionary work among the Native Americans down at the south tip of Hood Canal. A core association copy, inscribed to the eminent historian.

Meany's color bookplate, on the front pastedown, shows three knives in color: "Three Knives" was the name bestowed on Meany by Chief Joseph, symbolizing Meany's preeminent attributes of mind, heart and hand. SMITH: 2768, SOLIDAY I: 771.

Price: $1,000.00

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