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[David Crockett]. Davy Crockett's Almanack, ...
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[David Crockett]. Davy Crockett's Almanack, of Wild Sports in the West, Life in the Backwoods, Sketches of Texas, and Rows on the Mississippi. Vol. 1 "Go Ahead!" No. 4. Nashville: Published by the heirs of Col. Crockett, [1838]. 12mo, 48 pages [but lacking the back wrapper, pages 47 and 48]. Illustrated. Only the front wrapper is present, with sewn text block.Davy Crockett's Almanacks were extremely popular in their day and were heavily read resulting in most surviving copies showing tremendous wear. The precursor to modern adventure comic books, Crockett's Almanacks featured numerous engravings accompanied by tales of his exciting and generally unbelievable escapades, greatly contributing to his fame and enduring reputation as "The King of the Wild Frontier."
Streeter included this particular volume in his bibliography "because of 'Texas' in the title though the only sketch with the scene laid in Texas, and it might have been anywhere else in the Southwest, is 'A Narrow Escape of a Woman from a Panther in Texas.'"
Condition: Heavy wear throughout, particularly to the first and last pages. Top wrapper has heavy soiling and has chipping and loss along all the edges, including where tissue paper has been added along the right edge and along the spine. Small hole affecting wrapper illustration.
Reference: Sabin 17576, Streeter 1270.
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2024 April 5 Historical Manuscripts Signature® Auction #6285 (go to Auction Home page)
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