Seven and Nine Years among the Camanches and Apaches. An Autobiography.

Jersey City, N.J. Published by Clark Johnson, M.D., 1874.

Octavo (19 x 12.5 cm.), 309, [1] pages. Illustrated. Advertisement. Second edition, second printing. Graff refers to an earlier undated issue of 219 pages. This 309 page edition, was originally issued in 1874. Felcone also notes copies of the 1874 printing with and without the two line printers attribution to the title page verso. A false Indian captivity narrative in the service of advertising a patent medicine. "A revolting fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian blood syrup, and made up mainly of descriptions of Indian life and customs, some of which are cribbed, with considerable garbling from Catlin. - G. P. Garrison." (Ayer 90 as quoted in Graff). Closed tear to fore edge of rear fly and two blank leaves. Foxing throughout, a bit musty. With the bookplate of the West Townshend Sabbath School Library. endpapers a bit stained. In black and blind-stamped decorated orange cloth; soiled; edges rubbed and worn. Good only. [Ayer 90; Felcone 3401; Graff 1199].

Price: $60.00