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This sale features some of the rarest Ernest Hemingway items to come to market in recent years, along with rare and important newspapers, a closely-curated selection of works by African-American authors, and some of the finest early printed books to come to market in recent memory. Purchase Catalog
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Lot 707

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. [OREGON]. CUMMINS, Sarah J. (1828-1919...

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[WESTERN AMERICANA]. [OREGON]. CUMMINS, Sarah J. (1828-1919). Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins Touchet, Wash. La Grande, OR: La Grande Printing Co., [1914]. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait. 63 pp. Publisher's staple-bound gray printed boards (mild rubbing, bumping to wrappers, light bumping to fore-edge of text, front hinge cracking). Fine. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING; A SUPERB COPY OF THIS RARE AND FRAGILE BOOK. An excellent account of a pioneer's journey to Oregon and settling there. She comments on Fremont, Kearny's Dragoons, Marcus Whitman, and what she mis-labels the Yellowstone region (most likely Soda Springs, ID). Howes C952. Housed in chemise and slipcase (worn).

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From the renowned personal collection of Dr. George D. Lacy.