The Poet Scout: Being a Selection of Incidental and Illustrative Verses and Songs

San Francisco: H. Keller & Co, 1879. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition - the 1879 San Francisco printing, significantly preceding the Funk & Wagnalls edition of 1886, which is commonly mischaracterized as the first. Boards rubbed and soiled (most of gilt rubbed away), front free endpaper removed, hinges weakening, ink name on front flyleaf, pencil gift note on rear endpaper. xx, [21]-208 pp. Brown cloth, black and gilt titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece and illustrations. A collection of verse about Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickok, George Custer, mining camps, temperance, etc. Crawford himself was a frontier scout of some note, though this work focuses on other individuals.