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Custer Book Collection. Delightful grou

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Custer Book Collection. Delightful grou
Custer Book Collection. Delightful group of seven books relating to Custer, illustrating the status he achieved immediately following Little Big Horn, persisting to this day: Custer and Other Poems, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Chicago, 1896, 134 pp., grey linen exquisitely gold-stamped with cherub and scroll. Including epic, three-part, 107-verse ode to Custer, with wash drawing of him in battle. Minor tip and spine wear, else very fine. Beautiful for display. Barnes' New National Readers, No. 5, 1884 history schoolbook, with "Custer's Last Charge" among "Lessons in Verse," with dramatic full-page woodcut. 480 pp. Much-worn decorative cloth repasted on sturdy rebinding, good. Oddball Custer association item. The Pony Rider Boys in Montana or The Mystery of the Old Custer Trail, Frank Gee Patchin, Philadelphia, 1910, 256 pp., bold red and black pictorial cloth, suitable for display. Inner hinge wear, spine soiled, else good. The Master of the Strong Hearts - A Story of Custer's Last Rally, Elbridge S. Brooks, N.Y., 1914, 314 pp., 11 plates, pictorial cover artwork showing Custer on horseback, black on caramel cloth. Minor wear, V.G. The Pioneer West, ed. by Joseph Lewis French, Boston, 1924, 386 pp., full-color plates, red pictorial cloth. Full chapter by Custer himself, "Cheyennes and Sioux," from his 1867 My Life on the Plains. Fine. Probably unread. With Custer in the Black Hills, Capt. Ralph Bonehill, Mershon Co., 1902, 244 pp., illustrated. The author describes Custer as being "as warm-hearted as he was daring, and who lost his life while serving his country against the red men." Exceptionally pleasing multicolor pictorial board, with drum, cannon, sword, rifles, and red, white and blue flag, all on mocha cloth. Some wear, but good, and highly suited for display. Boots and Saddles, or Life in Dakota with General Custer, Elizabeth B. Custer. Harper Brothers, 1898, 312 pp. Superlatively decorated cloth, with Western hills and bars of music in black, the setting sun, its rays, and bugle in lustrous gold, blind rules extending the sun's rays. Frontispiece portrait. Older collector's embossed seal on blank flyleaf, minor tear at top of spine, else fine, the binding as artistic as those commissioned for single rare books.