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Title: Chronicles of Border Warfare, or, A History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-western Virginia: and of the Indian Wars and Massacres, in that section of the State; with Reflections, Anecdotes, &c Author: Withers, Alexander Scott Place: Clarksburg, Va. Publisher: Published by Joseph Israel Date: 1831 Description: 319 pp. + 1 ad leaf. (12mo) period full calf, morocco spine label, edges stained yellow. First Edition. First edition of one of the classic books concerning the hostile settlement of the Ohio country. "The author took much pains to be authentic, and his chronicles are considered by Western antiquarians, to form the best collection of frontier life and Indian warfare, that has been printed" (Field). This copy without the 4-page contents, as usual, but with the advertising leaf. Field also notes that: "Having been issued in a remote corner of Northwestern Virginia, and designed principally for local circulation, almost every copy was read by a country fire-side until scarcely legible", not true of this copy. Field 1690; Howes W601; Sabin 104928. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding rubbed, small chip to spine; foxing throughout; very good. Item number: 288102