Anness, Milford E. — Song of Metamoris

Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A story that remains of a people who passed this way . . . , says the title page. "The book is historically accurate, considering the occasional contradictions that exist among authorities on the times, and all the principal characters are depicted as history and tribal traditions represent them." A fine and engrossing narrative akin to those of Allan Eckert, dealing also with Native Americans of the Ohio/Indiana region. Special focus on Tecumseh and Metamoris, the Delaware Indian chieftain who accompanied the Shawneed Tecumseh and who became besties. SIGNED by the author at the first free endpaper, being half of a two-page endpaper map (reproduced at rear). Bound handsomely in brown cloth over boards, red lettering to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny, pictorial dust jacket, moderately rubbed and little worn beyond two faint remains of former price-sticker. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xviii [2], 2-509 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Near Fine/Very Good,