A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison, Who Was Taken by the Indians, in the Year 1755, When Only About Twelve Years of Age, and Has Continued to Reside Amongst Them to the Present Time, Containing an Account of the Murder of Her Father and His Family; Her Sufferings; Her Marriage to Two Indians; Her Troubles with Her Children; Barbarities of the Indians in the French and Revolutionary Wars; the Life of Her Last Husband, &c.; and Many Historical Facts Never Before Published. Carefully Taken from Her Own Words, Nov. 29th, 1823. to which is added, An Appendix, Containing an Account of the Tragedy at the Devil's Hole, in 1763, and of Sullivan's Expedition; the Traditions, Manners, Customs, &c. of the Indians, as Believed and Practised at the Present Day, and Since Mrs. Jemison's Captivity; Together with Some Anecdotes, and Other Entertaining Matter. [The White Woman of the Genesee] [De-He-Wa-Mis]

New York: Random House / Pynson Printers, 1929. Limited Edition. Small Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Limited edition, #815 of 950 copies. Rebacked with plain cloth, with tape over the new spine, otherwise an excellent copy. 1929 Small Hard Cover. xv, 459 pp. 5 5/8 x 3 5/8. This is the twenty-third recorded edition of the work, and reproduces the contents of the first edition printed by J.D. Bemis and Co. The edition was designed and printed by Pynson Printers, founded by Rochester native Elmer Adler. The original edition was published in 1824 (Howes S-263: 'One of the most authentic and interesting of captivity narratives, told by one who spent a long life among the Senecas and was the first white woman to descend the Ohio.'), and quickly republished in London in 1826 (Sabin 78678, Church 1334: 'This well written narrative, purporting to be only the biography of a captive among the Senecas, is really the best resume we have of incidents in the history and common life of the Seneca Indians. Its truthfulness is vouched for by such veracious testimony as that of Eli Parker, an educated chief of that nation, though its authenticity can scarcely have greater corroboration than the fact that Mr. Seaver received almost the whole mass of incidents narrated in his book, directly from the lips of the aged captive herself. - FIELD. Forty years had passed since the close of the revolutionary war, and almost seventy years had seen Mrs. Jemison with the Indians, when Daniel W. Banister, Esq., at the instance of several gentlemen, and prompted by his own ambition to add something to the accumulating fund of useful knowledge, resolved, in the autumn of 1823, to embrace that time, while she was capable of recollecting and reciting the scenes through which she had passed to collect from herself, and to publish to the world, an accurate account of her life. - Introduction, p. viii. At this time Mrs. Jemison was about eighty years of age, and was living in the neighborhood of Genesee River, about four miles from Castile, New York, to which place she went on foot to meet the author and his publisher and tell the story of her life.').