Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

289 289 c   (WEST.) Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Significance of the Frontier in American History, pages 79-112 of an annual issue of Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Frontispiece plate. 173 pages. 8vo, original wrappers, moderate wear, backstrip chipped, front wrapper coming loose; contents clean with minor edge wear; uncut. Madison,WI, 1894 [2,500/3,500] first edition of perhaps the most influential essay on American history.Turner observed that “up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West” and concluded that “the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.” Turner’s “Frontier Thesis” remains enormously influential among American historians, and hotly debated.To this day, the Frederick Jackson Turner Award is a great honor within the historical profession. 290 c   (WEST.) Group of 3 pieces of Buffalo Bill ephemera. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1887 and 1903 [400/600] Henry Llewellyn Williams. Buffalo Bill (The Hon.William F. Cody) . . . a Full Account of his Adventurous Life. Frontispiece plate. 192 pages. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, some soiling, wear and dampstaining, stabilized with archival repairs in 1965. “Said to be the rarest book about Buffalo Bill. It is founded upon the many dime novels of its day . . . a ludicrous attempt to write about the American wild west”—Adams, Six-Guns 2401. HowesW454; none known at auction since 1951. London, 1887 * A Peep at Buffalo Bill’sWildWest. Chromolithograph illustrations throughout. [16] pages. 4to, original illustrated wrappers; worn with repairs. NewYork: McLoughlin Brothers, 1887 * Handbill for performance of Buffalo Bill’sWildWest at Royal Cinema de Luxe in Hastings, England. 7 x 5 inches on red paper; minor wear. Hastings, England, 20 April [1903].