THE WOOD-RANGERS. (From the French of Luis de Bellemare.). London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1860. Octavo, three volumes, inserted frontispiece in each volume with wood engravings after J. B. Zwecker, original decorated purple cloth, spine panels stamped in gold, top edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. First edition in English. An adventure novel set in Mexico in the 1830s. One of two translations by Reid of novels by the French adventure novelist, Louis Eugene Gabriel Ferry de Bellemare, a.k.a. Gabriel Ferry (1809-1852), who like Reid, spent almost a decade in the American west and Mexico. Sadleir 2034. Wolff 5763. Spine lean, several spine ends strengthened, volume three re-backed with cloth preserved, a very good copy. A nice copy overall. Scarce. (#160974).
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