THE INDIAN SCOUT. OR LIFE ON THE FRONTIER

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1862. Large octavo. Original cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. A very good copy. First American edition, first or very early impression, of L'ELAIREUR, probably based on the Ward, Lock yellowback edition published in Britain. Includes a prefatory essay about Aimard, popularly known as the French Fenimore Cooper, reprinted from BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The NUC assigns dates of 1862, 1863 and 1875 to editions published by Peterson; the preponderance of ads for soldier's manuals and the like in this copy suggests one of the two earlier dates. (Inventory #: WRCLIT27015)