Description

With Axe and Rifle or The Western Pioneers by W H G Kingston

Prolific British writer William Henry Giles Kingston (1814 – 1880) wrote more than 130 adventure stories for boys. B/w illustrations signed by H. Meyer. An adventure set in the early homesteading days of Ohio when new arrivals and indigenous Native American Indians had different notions of proper land use. Narrated in the first person by a young man born in Ohio of Irish immigrants, it is the family's story of venturing further west together with a brave run-away Negro slave.

Features;

• Publisher Sampson Low, Marston & Company Limited, London; Undated c.1894
• Illustrated Green Cloth Hardback, 382 pp, +32pp cat
• With B&W Frontis and 22 further superb engravings
• Size 185 x 125mm, 700g

Condition: Good ' No Dust Jacket, Slight Wear To Edges, Slight Foxing To Endleaves, Owners Signature dated 1894, No Inscriptions, Good Copy

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