Calgary, AB: Alberta Book and Novelty Company. Softcover. Good+. Undated, c. 1944. 9.25 x 12 inches. 2 pp text and 15 black and white photographic plates provided by the National Film Board (Ottawa) and A. Blyth Studios (Edmonton) showing views along the Alaska Highway (also known as the ALCAN or... Item #13968
Boston: Warren Press, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Early reprint (first published 1898). 198 pp, with 4 b/w plates. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on front and spine. Spine faded from sun, but fully legible, light shelfwear to boards. Binding tight and square, contents unmarked. Interesting account of an 1894 assault... Item #11987
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 18361837. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo, pp. 4 (ads), viii, 456, with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in later cloth-backed boards with paper spine label (resembling, but not a facsimile of, the original binding). Second American edition, which is apparently identical to the first of... Item #19173
New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1903. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Number 63 of a limited edition of 210. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, mounted spine label. 360 pp, folding map. Very near fine, partially unopened. Recounts and trip performed in 1873 across the wilderness from... Item #11185
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Hardcover. Near Fine. Undated, by c. 1913. 310 pp plus index, folding map. Originally published in wrappers, but this copy a contemporary rebinding in beige buckram (and thus in better condition than usually found) with title section of front wrap neatly mounted on front board. An engaging, early travel guide... Item #11262
Ottawa: S.E. Dawson, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 80 pp, with five colored maps (four folding), b/w illustrations from photographs. Original blue cloth boards with map of Canada and the upper United Stated on front board, gilt lettering on front board, title hand-lettered on spine. Moderate soiling to boards... Item #17390
Chicago: Chicago Record, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii, 413 pp, + 5 pp ads, with 8 maps (some double-page) and more than 30 illustrations. Illustrated buckram boards are well rubbed, with spine no longer legible. Front hinge starting, but binding still quite sound, text unmarked. One of the many... Item #11743
Raincoast Books, 1989. Softcover. Very good. Later printing. Trade paperback. Clean, tight, and unmarked, with mild shelfwear. Memoir of the author's work as a physician in the Yukon in the 1930s. Item #14251
Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Company, 1905. Hardcover. Fine. Second edition. 335 pp, with many illustrations from photographs and 2 maps. Ribbed blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt; totem pole illustration in white, top edge gilt. A lovely copy, clean and tight, with very mild wear to the spine ends. The... Item #11731
New York: David McKay, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 227 pp, illustrated with photographs. Index, endpaper maps. Blue cloth boards with lettering/decoration in gilt. Clean and tight. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and has some small tears at... Item #11827
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1971. Hardcover. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 294 pp, with index, bibliography, illustrations, maps. Book and jacket both as new. Examines the contest for the Columbia country (1810-1818), the Oregon Crisis (1844-1846), the gold rush crises (1850-1868), the dispute over the San Juan... Item #14433
Amsterdam: Herman Uytwerf, 1738. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. Two volumes, pp. [xiv], 370, [6]; 430,[ 6], with six folding plates and a folding map. Modern full-leather with marbled endpapers. Title pages clipped at upper and lower edges; damage with losses to three plates, repairs to back of map; all... Item #14194
Boston, MA: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 272 pp. Slight spine lean, very light edge wear including lightly bumped corners; else clean and sound. Dust jacket is clipped with light shelf wear and soiling. McGill University Professor Stephen Leacock's... Item #953
New York: Wm. H. Colyer, 1839. Hardcover. Very Good. Pirated edition, complete in one volume (small type), following the two-volume edition issued by Carey & Hart. 8vo. 263 pp, in original cloth-backed boards with paper spine label. Moderate foxing throughout; about very good. Based on Marryat's travels in the United... Item #14931
New York: George H. Doran, 1924. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. 178 pp, with 12 illustrations from photographs. Small stain on lower front board; otherwise a lovely copy, lacking the dust jacket. Grenfell was a British physician sent to Labrador and Newfoundland in 1892 to... Item #11633
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Hardcover. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Early printing. Tightly binding, minimal wear to boards; some evidence of erased owner info on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is missing several sizeable chips, but remains attractive; in mylar. Merrick fell in love with Labrador... Item #12047
New York: Arno Press, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Abercrombie and Fitch Library edition. xvi, 340 pp, with illustrations. Minimal wear to edges; else fine. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, a few short tears. Reprint of the 1907 Longmans, Green and Co. edition. "This... Item #2072
Watertown, NY. 4 pp on a single folded sheet, 8.5 x 11 inches when folded. Undated, but reprints an article from The American Mining News, August, 1901. Old creases from folding, staple holes at upper corner, all else very good. Dunbar, a broker, appeals to Americans for investment in this... Item #18139
Bell and Cockburn, 1913. R.A. Stewart. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 569 pp, plus introduction and 17 plates, including 9 in color, which are tipped in. Original red buckram with gilt lettering, top edges gilt. Spine lightly sunned, but quite legible. Corners lightly bumped.Very light foxing to first few pages and... Item #11165
London: A.W. Bennett, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. pp. viii, 278, [2] (ads), frontis portrait of the author and 15 plates illustrating aspects of Ojibwe life and culture. Rebound in green cloth, gilt title on spine. Edges trimmed, mild spine slant; very good. Jones (1802-1856) was a Mississauga... Item #14866
Softcover. Good. 10 pp, in original wrappers. Light handling wear and soiling to wrappers, dampstain tolower spine; text clean. Undated. Reprinted from Canadian Home Journal. Describes a trip to Ben-My-Chree, British Columbia in the summer of 1930, to visit the home and garden of Otto and Kate Partridge. Item #2652
British Columbia Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources, 1963. Soft cover. Near Fine. Bulletin No. 21. 42 pp, with diagrams and 8 photographic plates. Stapled binding. Minor wear to wraps, stamp on a mineral company on front cover, no internal markings. Includes a history of placer mining, characteristics of placer... Item #13484
New York: Arno Press, 1967. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Abercrombie and Fitch Library. xiv, 295 pp + folding maps, with illustrations. Minimal wear to edges; else fine. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, including some shipping to the spine. Reprint of the 1896 Edward Arnold edition. Item #2073
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 162 pp plus ads, illustrated with photographs. Bound in bright blue cloth with map endpapers. Corners lightly rubbed, else fine. No dust jacket. Part of a series of nonfiction adventure books published by G.P. Putnam, written by and for... Item #12322
San Francisco, CA: Mining and Scientific Press, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 392 pp, indexed, with 9 maps and numerous b/w photos. Original pictorial cloth boards. Spine lettering partially rubbed off, cloth frayed at the corners and lower spine. Binding sound, contents unmarked. Account of an 8250-mile journey through the... Item #13482
