Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians in North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen.

8vo (8½x5"), full cloth, leather spine label (detached and laid in xi, 468 pp., with lithograph frontispiece portrait by C.R. Leslie. Third Edition, with additions. Cloth heavily rubbed; bookplate; dampstains to frontispiece, light foxing throughout; very good. Revised later edition of John Hunter's narrative. The accuracy of this story has always been hotly debated. He wrote of being seized by Kickapoo Indians at such an early age that he remembered nothing of his family, of being traded from tribe to tribe, and of growing up as a full-fledged warrior, until he returned to the white settlements in 1816 to seek an education. Lionized in London during the winter of 1823-1824, he later returned to America, where he was murdered by Cherokees during a complex boundary dispute in Texas in 1828. For first edition, see: Graff 2019; Howes H813; Sabin 33921; Streeter Sale 4237; Wagner-Camp 24:2. Ayer covers various editions 141-145. Field 743.