Wau Bun, First Edition (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 390 pages, map endpapers, photos, slight spine lean, outer page edges slightly foxed, interior very clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 609 pages. Illustrated. Fine condition. A tight and bright copy. (S1).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Introduction and notes by Milo Milton Quaife. 12mo. Pp. liv, 609, appendix, index. Top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Frontis. black & white illustration of the residence of John Kenzie, ESQ, behind printed tissue guard. Illustrated with a facsimile of the first edition title page, published New York,1856 and several black & white illustrations, behind printed tissue guard. Bound in red cloth with gilt rules and Lakeside Press emblem on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Near Fine, light wear to spine. A handsome, well preserved copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with decorative design in gilt on the front cover and gilt titles on the spine. Top edge gilt. A Fine unmarked book. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact, with additional illustrations with tissue guards present. The book measures 6.75 x 4.5 x 1.25 nches. Robust shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Later Printing. 8vo; 390 pages; The 1873 edition of the 1856 first edition. Green covers with some rubbing and wear. Name on 2nd free endpaper. Name, place and date on title page. Some pencil math problems on blank pages in the rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited Edition one of 156 copies. Previous owners book-plate is inside on back of front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Thus. 1st printing of this edition, the original published in the mid-19th century. Cloth with gilt-stamped spine. 390pp. Illus. In pencil on the half-title in large writing is "Property Chamber of Commerce - Portage." The front paste down has an affixed map of Wisconsin, 1831-1931 that we presume the publisher added. Near fine copy with just traces of wear to extremities and with about a 2" crack to the lower front hinge.

First Thus. 16mo (18cm). Maroon cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine, top edge gilt; plain endpapers; lxii,609,[1]pp; halftone plates. Lightly rubbed, mild superficial abrasion to cloth on boards, internally clean: Very Good. Number 30 in the Lakeside Classics series, which reprinted out-of-print texts in handsome editions. The series was never sold to the public; instead, copies were presented to R. R. Donnelley employees as Christmas gifts. For the 1856 original, see HOWES K171. [63285].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/BRAND NEW. Brown linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/NF; showing faint discoloration to spine. DJ/None. Creasing to endpaper and PO to endpaper verso; and PO name to title page. Historical Autobiography/Memoir of Connecticut-born historian, pioneer & writer Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie (1806 - 1870) who moved to Chicago at the age of two and married John H. Kinzie, an Indian agent & son of fur traders. First published anonymously in pamphlet form 1844 as " Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, August 15, 1812 and Some Preceding Events", contents of which was incorporated into the 1856 book WAU-BUN ("dawn" or "early day" in Ojibeway). This 390-page 1930 publication carries the original 38 chapters & illustrations from 1856, and, is edited w/an Introduction & annotated by historian Louise Phelps Kellogg. Autobiography/memoir; a historical travelogue covering Chicago of 1812, Chicago in 1831, and, life at Fort Winnebago (Portage), Wisconsin, 1830-1833. A rich narrative bringing to life days of early American mid-western life.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pp.: xxi, 451. Gilt titles to sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ b/w period paintings, drawings and maps. Blue cloth bds. w/ gilt designs to sp. & frt bd. T.E.G. Deckle fore-edges. First printing 1856. An edition of 256 copies printed on rag paper. Published by The Caxton Club. Sp. ends curled. Ex-lib. w/ few treatments. Red library ink stamp, rear bd. The Northwest Territory in the settlement days of the 1830's with the personal experiences of the author. Edited by and with endnotes by Reuben Gold Thawites. Includes index. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to hardcover volume in green gold embossed cloth binding. Binding very good with a little corner wear. End papers show evidence of paper remnants and a library label. Kooks like hinges have had matching cloth tape set in. The title page is set in from another copy. 498 page contents not foxed but some spotting and finger soiling. All pages tight. There are 6 lithograph prints.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 12mo., burgundy cloth lettered in gilt; top edge gilt; spine slightly rubbed. Facsimile edition, with an introduction by Milo Milton Quaife. A presentation copy, inscribed by Herbert P. Zimmerman, Lakeside executive and press historian, to a colleague. A handsome copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Maroon boards, spine sunned. Ex library numbering on spine. Internally, ex-library bookplate inside front cover and remnants of book pocket inside back cover. Body of book clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to hardcover volume in red gold embossed cloth binding. A little wear to tips else quite nice clean copy. End papers not split one small owner label. Inner page after title has small cutout at top some signature.Rest of book quite good with a little foxing to first and last pages. 498 pages with 6 lithograph prints.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo. 419pp +index, illustrated. Limited to 256 copies on hand made paper. A good copy in blue cloth,wearing at the base. Front inner hinge cracked. Name on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of classic on Chicago and the Old Northwest. Large 8vo. 498 pages. 6 full page lithographs. Title leaf is browned, scattered foxing and staining but otherwise clean. Green embossed binding, worn at spine ends and 3 corners, but joints tight and otherwise very good.

498 pp. With six tinted lithographic illustrations. 8vo, original purple cloth. First edition. 19th c. gift inscription on front free endpaper; cloth worn and spotted, particularly at the rear panel; tight and sound.

First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original blind-stamped cloth with a decorated spine stamped in gold, dark grown front & rear endpapers, xii, 13-498 pp., frontispiece [home of John Kenzie, Esq., the first house built in Chicago], preface, illustrated, six plates, appendix. Details in depth the early history of Chicago, including early settlers, Indian troubles, etc. A section on the American Fur Company and their trade with the Indians, pioneer life in the Great Lakes greater regions, some discussion of the Black Hawk War, travel on the Great Lakes from Detroit to Duluth, inland rivers, military forts, Indian captivity, the Chicago Massacre, etc. Field 833 says " This picture of the early days of the Northwest, drawn from the lips of an aged pioneer, is replete with authentic details of aboriginal manners, and the association of the frontiersmen with them in peace or war." Original spine replaced and light foxing to some pages, else near fine tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition; Second edition. 8vo. [5], vi-xii, 13-498, [4]; [5], vi-xii, 13-498, [4] pp. Publisher's red cloth with borders and decorations in blind on each board, gilt lettering and gilt vignette on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Publisher's dark brown cloth with decorations and borders on the boards in blind, vignette and lettering in gilt on the spine. Dark brown coated endpapers and pastedowns. Both volumes are housed in a red clamshell case with black labels lettered and decorated with gilt on the spine of the case, case produced by O'Connell & Gabriel. Both volumes illustrated with a frontispiece depicting the Kinzie residence (the first house built in Chicago) and with five additional plates, all of which are tinted lithographs. ANB, JoAnn E. Castagna "Kinzie, Juliette Augusta Magill". Buck 230. Caxton Club Chicago 101, #1. Eberstadt 113: 239, 122:223, 133:493. Howes K171. Larned 1799. Sabin 37941. The second edition is inscribed by Juliette Kinzie on the verso of the frontispiece (To Mrs. Spenser, with the kind regards of her friend and pupil The Author). The author and her husband moved to Fort Winnebago in Portage, Wisconsin in 1830 shortly after they were married. In 1834 the couple moved to Chicago where they were among the earliest settlers and remained prominent citizens of Chicago until their deaths. The present work is a combination of the author's first-hand experiences and a general history of the early days of white settlement in northern Illinois and Wisconsin. Kinzie's book is notable for its scholarly approach to and inclusion of Native people's history (the customs and culture of the Indigenous Americans who lived in the region at the time are described in her work). Each volume skillfully rebacked with the original spines laid down, each volume also with a bookplate on its front pastedown. Volume one's front joint with a repair, its leaves show light foxing. Volume two's pageblock shows (at times heavy) foxing with an occasional dampspot.

8vo., (9 x 5 4/8 inches). Lithographed frontispiece and 5 plates. Original publisher's brown cloth, decorated in blind and gilt (a bit worn at the extremities). Provenance: with the near contemporary ownership inscription of "C.J. Starr" on the front free endpaper; with the bookplate of Jay T. Snider on the inside of the chemise, his sale, Jay T. Snider Collection of Historical Americana, his sale Christie's 21 June 2005, lot 154, for $2,400 First edition. Juliette Kinzie was the wife of one of the earliest settlers of Chicago, and an important trader in the Great Lakes region, John Kinzie. "Wau-Bun" is a mixture of autobiography and history. "It recounted Juliette Kinzie's own experiences as an early settler of Wisconsin and Illinois amid a general description of the lives of local Native Americans, the history of white settlement in Chicago, and the activities of her father-in-law. As Kinzie noted in her preface, "It never entered the anticipations of the most sanguine that the march of improvement and prosperity would, in less than a quarter of a century [that is, since the time when she had arrived at what was a frontier outpost], have so obliterated the traces of 'the first beginning,' that a vast and intelligent multitude would be crying out for information in regard to the early settlement of this portion of our country." 'Wau-Bun' attempted to fill this gap and was well received, perhaps because its historical narrative is combined with what Milo Quaife called Kinzie's "fondness for romance and for dramatic effect" (Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1913). Kinzie was aware that her descriptions of relationships between the white settlers and the Native Americans were out of keeping with the majority cultural opinion. She noted in her preface, "Some who read the following sketches may be inclined to believe that a residence among our native brethren and an attachment growing out of our peculiar relation to them, have exaggerated our sympathies, and our sense of the wrong they have received at the hands of the whites." And despite the centrality in her account of the "massacre," Native Americans were presented as fully rounded characters, and their cultures, customs, and language were discussed with respect" (JoAnn E. Castagna for ANB). Catalogued by Kate Hunter.

V.good with half inch chip at upper spine. Some minor foxing. Former owner's name stamp.