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First Edition of Fairfax Downey's Indian-Fighting Army; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman
DOWNEY, Fairfax.
Indian-Fighting Army.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941.
First edition of this history of the conquest of the American West; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Royal octavo, original blue cloth, frontispiece of Attack on the Supply Wagons, illustrated with drawings by Frederic Remington, Charles Schreyvogel, and R. F. Zogbaum. P.T. Sherman’s bookplate to the front free endpaper beneath his ownership inscription, "P. T. Sherman from Merrison Fitch Nov. 1941." In near fine condition. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s son P. T. Sherman was a lawyer in New York, specializing in labor and insurance, and was elected a member of the New York Board of Alderman in the late 1880s. In the early 1900s, he was appointed the New York Commissioner of Labor. He transferred his library to his niece, Eleanor Sherman Fitch, the granddaughter of General Sherman through his eldest daughter, Maria “Minnie” Ewing Sherman Fitch, before he died. Until now, the book was held at the family estate in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 145740
