Beadle's Dime Biographical Library. Number Three. The life and times of Christopher Carson : the Rocky Mountain scout and guide : with reminiscences of Fremont's exploring expeditions, and notes of life in New Mexico. First edition.
New York ; London : Beadle and Co., 1861. Original wrappers, with loss upper right. 94 pp. 4.5 x 7 inches.
OCLC Number 13596052
Very scarce. Author's name does not appear in the work. Wright Howes, Final Edition, no. E116.
Provenance: Helen C Tasheira , was born about 1878. Lived at 215 La Salle Avenue
Piedmont. Piedmon Ca in 1940 census. Her husband was the attorney A. G. Tasheira, who died in 1938
Carson, Kit, -- 1809-1868.
Frémont, John Charles, -- 1813-1890.
ON THE 20th day of December, 1860, Beadle & Co., then at 141 William Street, advertised Beadle's Dime Biographical Library No. 1, as "now ready." The booklet was of the usual Dime Novel size, that is, approximately 6½ by 4½ inches, and was enclosed in orange colored wrappers printed in black. A publishers' blurb announced that the monthly issues of these "Original, Unique and Authentic Biographies" were to consist of 100 pages and to cost ten cents. "Garibaldi, the Washington of Italy" was to be followed by John Paul Jones on January 8, Daniel Boone February 8, Admiral Lord Nelson March 8, Kit Carson April 8, and Oliver Hazard Perry (no date). As a matter of fact, Nelson and Perry did not appear at all, and the sequence and dates of appearance of the others were different. The succeeding ten numbers actually appeared monthly on the 22d day, after which the intervals were irregular until No. 15, the final number, appeared in 1865. Item #51-2621
Price: $2,500.00