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TOME, PHILIP. Pioneer Life; Or, Thirty Years a Hunter. Being Scenes and Adventures in the Life of Philip Tome, fifteen years Interpreter for Cornplanter and Gov. Blacksnake, Chiefs on the Allegany River. Harrisburg: The Aurand Press, 1928. Number 162 of 500 copies of this reprint of the 1854 original. Original purple cloth, the spine gilt lettered 9 x 6 inches; frontispiece, 173 pp., an original prospectus is laid-in. Fine overall, the spine a trifle faded.

This is a limited reprint of rare work considered one of the scarcest of the Buffalo sporting imprints. Tome was an early 19th century pioneer in Western Pennsylvania and interpreter to Cornplanter and Governor Blacksnake, chiefs on the Allegheny River. Besides fine Native American content, the books contains a "remarkable and accurate account of hunting elk, deer, bears, wolves, trapping and fishing from 1791 to about 1825" (Phillips). For the original work see: Graff 4162 "an important account of pioneer life in the Old West"; Phillips, Bibliography of American Sporting Books, p. 377; Streeter Sale 4088; Siebert Sale 243; Howes T288.