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  First Edition of John M. Oskison's Tecumseh and His Times; From the Library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman

  OSKISON, John M. [William Tecumseh Sherman].

  Tecumseh and His Times: The Story of a Great Indian.

  New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1938.

  First edition of this biography of Shawnee chief and warrior Tecumseh; from the library of Philemon Tecumseh Sherman. Octavo, original tan cloth, cartographic endpapers, frontispiece portrait of Tecumseh. P.T. Sherman’s bookplate to the half title page. In very good condition with some rubbing to the front and rear panels. 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. In very good condition.

  Price: $375.00     Item Number: 145870

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