ROWLANDSON, Mary.

Narrative of the Captivity and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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ROWLANDSON, Mary. Narrative of the Captivity and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, Who Was Taken by the Indians at the Destruction of Lancaster in 1676. Written by Herself. 100pp. 12mo. Lancaster, [Mass.]: Carter, Andrews, and Co, 1828. The scarce 6th edition, 2nd Lancaster edition. Later quarter brown morocco-backed marbled boards. Small repair to title, else very good. HOWES R-478. Grolier 100-5; Sabin 73590; Ayer 241; Eberstadt 122-315. The Rowlandson captivity is the first and perhaps the most famous of all Indian captivities. Tyler in History of American Literature, Vol. II, p. 138, comments, "[T]here is no more graphic or more exquisite literary memorial," and Samuel Eliot Morison in Puritan Pronaos, (New York, 1936, p. 184), says of it: "The classic that came out of that desperate struggle [King Philip's War] is an unpretentious personal narrative by Mrs. Rowlandson ..." The first edition, published 1682, is unobtainable. Sabin lists under Rowlandson thirteen later editions of the Captivity, including the present. "First printed account of a New England Indian captivity" (Howes).

Price: $2,750.00