Verlag: Harcourt, Brace & Company (c.1959), New York, 1959
Anbieter: ReadInk, ABAA/IOBA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Bernard Krigstein (illustrator). First Edition. (price-clipped) [very nice copy, slight bump to upper rear corner, no other discernible wear; jacket shows just a trace of wear here and there at edges and corners]. Novel about "a hard-bitten, Irish-born cavalryman assigned to Fort Sill after the Civil War, and placed in charge of some Negro recruits whose unwelcome mission is to escort a band of Comanches on their last buffalo hunt before these Indians are confined to a reservation.".
Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy/Jewish Publication Society, New York, 1958. 182 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn to the extremities; Name present to the FFEP). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are lightly rubbed and worn). Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The authors 2nd novel and first work for children pre-dating his Prydain cycle by many years. An early adult novel by Alexander about August Bondi, 1833-1907, an abolitionist involved in what he called the Border War, but is also called Bleeding Kansas. Bondi fought with John Brown. August Bondi (Jewish name Anshl) (July 21, 1833, Vienna, Austria â" September 30, 1907, St. Louis, Missouri, United States) was an Austrian-American Jew involved in the Border War (Bleeding Kansas) and later the American Civil War. In Kansas, he was a part of the Pottawatomie Rifles and fought alongside abolitionists John Brown and James Lane.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.