George Mason, the young backwoodsman; or 'don't give up the ship.' A story of the Mississippi

by Timothy Flint

$120 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. 12mo, pp. 167, 1 ; original boards rebacked in black cloth, new paper label on spine, text untrimmed; contemporary owner's signatures on title page and lower board; occasional spotting, good and sound. Timothy Flint was a failed missionary who became a successful man of letters but wrote too much. Nevertheless, he deserves to be remembered for his descriptions of the West, which he observed carefully and for

• Binding: Hardcover

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