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A LADY IN THE WILDERNESS
No place (Seattle?): No publisher, no date (ca 1938?). Octavo, pp (12, including covers), printed in yellow paper, stapled. Photo inside front cover, poem inside rear cover by Kathleen Keats White. Rear cover has a short creased tear at bottom of rear cover, VG otherwise. Reprints an article from the Canadian Home Journal, about Mrs. Otto H. Partridge and the famous garden she kept in the Yukon, Ben-My-Chree, and about the trip getting there, in 1930. The article was printed in the magazine in 1938. One of the noted Scottish-Canadian author's scarcest books. AMICUS locates only two copies in Canadian libraries. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Book ID: 42691More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
ARCTIC GALLERY 1978
No place (Y: Department of Information, Government of the Northwest Territories, 1978. pp [46], stapled, in card covers. Corner creases to rear cover, VG otherwise. An unused calendar, with text in English and Inuktitut, drawings by Cree artist Gail Cyr and photos by Mike Hewitt, and information on the metric system in English. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.; Oblong quarto
Book ID: 45079More details Price: USD $12.95 USD $11.66 -
BEYOND THE GREAT SLAVE LAKE
Edition: First Edition
London: Cassell, 1957. Green boards. pp 198 + plates. Spine sunned to tan, else a VG clean & unworn jacketless copy. A young man's travels in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Book ID: 44662More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
DICK KENT, FUR TRADER
Akon, Ohio: Saalfield, c1927. Brown boards. pp (2), 223, [7]. Frontispiece illustration. Pulpy text paper yellowed as always, ink gift inscription and small thin spot from erasure at front, else fine. Dust jacket has small chips and tears, VG otherwise, attactive. The fifth Dick Kent Mountie yarn for young readers, set in the frozen north. Northland Series. Saalfield 3341. ; Octavo
Book ID: 44774More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
DOWN NORTH
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1943. Variant in khaki cloth. Pictorial endpapers. pp (xiv), 274, (2) + 18 photo plates. Light damp spot to lower margin of front cover, else a fine, jacketless copy. Nice endpaper drawing by Thoreau MacDonald. Edison C61 A bit of history but mostly a contemporary survey of the North West Territories of Canada.; Octavo.
Book ID: 41763More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
First Man West: Alexander Mackenzie's Journal of His Voyage to the Pacific Coast of Canada in 1793
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. Green cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (x), 366. [6]. Map, portrait, index. Fine copy. Reprint of the University of California Press, 1962, edition.; Octavo 0837187893
Book ID: 50440More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
KLONDIKE ’98: Hegg’s Album of the 1898 Alaska Gold Rush
Edition: First Edition
Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1949. Tall octavo. Green pictorial cloth printed in black, map and decoration to front endpapers. pp (iv), (128). Photos in text. Fine copy. Pricce-clipped jacket has rubbing and small chips; VG otherwise. Klondike photos of young photographer E.A. Hegg.
Book ID: 41198More details Price: USD $22.00 USD $19.80 -
KLUANE, PINNACLE OF THE YUKON
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980. Quarto, blue boards, endpaper maps. xi, 175pp + colour photos. Many b&w photos and line drawings in text. Indexed. Slight rubbing at foot of spine, else fine in fine jacket, no owner nam3es. "The unique environment of North America's highest mountain range." Ecological focus. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Book ID: 42648More details Price: USD $19.50 USD $17.55 -
NEW RIVERS OF THE NORTH. The Yarn of Two Amateur Explorers. With Photographs by Auville Eager and the Author. The Head-Waters of the Fraser: The Peace River: The Hay River: Alexandra Falls.
Edition: First Edition
New York: Outing Publishing Company, 1912. Black cloth gilt lettered. 281, [3] pp + rontispiece with tissue guard and 23 other photo plates and one map. Moderate wear to spine tips; lacking the front free endpaper; ink name and nice large pictorial bookplate (Shannony C ottage, E. Downingtown, PA, Edward Kerr, Jr.) on front pastedown; VG otherwise. Travels in Alberta and the Northwest Territories of Canada by this prolific Canadian-born author of many crime novels.; Octavo
Book ID: 10797More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
NORTH LAND FOOTPRINTS or Lives on Little Bent Tree Lake.
Edition: First US printing
New York: Scribner's, 1937. Octavo, grey-green cloth stamped in white. [2], xviii, (19)-339, [3] pp. Spine very lightly darkened, with light rubbing; ink names to front free endpaper; damp stain to lower inner corners of front endpapers; VG otherwise. Watters p. 265. Nature fiction set in the Canadian North West around Great Slave Lake. Conibear, born in Ontario, with his family moved to Fort Resolution in 1912. It is believed theirs was the first white family, independent of government, religious organization or trading company to settle in the Territories. He attended the University of Alberta and was selected as an Alberta Rhodes Scholar in 1931. Conibear Lake in Wood Buffalo National Park is named for him. Mentioned in Peel 6271.
Book ID: 19457More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
PIONEERING IN THE PRAIRIE WEST: A Sketch of the Parry Sound Colonies that Settled near Edmonton, N.W.T., in the Early Nineties
Edition: Third Printing
Toronto: T. Nelson, for the author, 1926. Brown cloth. pp (vi), 92 + frontispiece portrait and 6 photographic plates. Slight wear to spine ends neatly repaired, ink owner name at front, else a VG tight and unworn copy.; 12mo
Book ID: 55486More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
PURSUIT IN THE WILDERNESS
Edition: First Edition
Boston: Little Brown, 1965. Grey cloth, endpaper maps. pp (viii), 343. Ink owner names at front, else near fine in VG+ price-clipped jacket. Author was former Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 35 years a Mountie.; Octavo.
Book ID: 44233More details Price: USD $18.00 USD $16.20 -
RENFREW'S LONG TRAIL. Illustrations by Neil O-Keefe
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no date. 1930s or 40s reprint from plates of the Appleton-Century second printing. Red cloth stamped in black, endpaper maps. 1945 ink ownership inscription on half-title leaf mostly crossed out with black marker, corner of rear cover faded, occasional small soil spots, slight musty odour, else a VG jacketless copy. Juvenile fiction series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Book ID: 43380More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE BATTLE OF THE BEARS and reminiscences of life in the Indian country
London: Robert Culley, no date, 1916. Octavo, blue pictorial cloth stamped in multiple colours, author & title in gilt on spine. pp 318, (2, ads) + 8 plates, most photographic. Spine lightly darkened; large 1916 ink inscription and vertical crease to front free endpaper; yellowing and slight foxing to page edges; bit of foxing to first few leaves and occasionally in text; text paper lightly toned; VG otherwise. First published by Culley, undated, in 1907. This copy has a Kelly spine imprint, thus a later issue binding and / or printing. Watters p 421 misclassifies the book as fiction. Missionary life among the Indians in the Canadian Northwest.
Book ID: 42635More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
The Canadian North-West; Its Early Development and Legislative Records; Minutes of the Councils of the Red River Colony and the Northern Department of Rupert's Land
Edition: First Edition
Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1914-15, 1915. Two volumes, tall octavo, original paper covers. pp 688; (ii), [689]-1348. Lacking the 6 maps, as usual, which were contained in a separate envelope. Peel (3) 4151. Volume I has chips to spine tips (no printing lost), edge nicks, some sunning to spine and front cover, VG otherwise. Volume II has small chips to spine tips, edges nicks, slight sunning to spine and rear cover, VG otherwise. Publications of the Canadian Archives No. 9. Note: 2.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.
Book ID: 31609More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
THE CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAY. Pioneer Road of the Northern Prairies 1895-1918.
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Macmillan / Maclean-Hunter, 1976. Grey boards, black endpapers. pp (xvi), 543 + plates inserted. Fine copy. Jacket has nicks and mild rubbing at head of very lightly yellowed spine, else fine. Uncommon book. 1.275 kg parcel; Octavo 0770512852
Book ID: 54387More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50 -
THE CONQUEST OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST. Being the Story of the Adventurers of England Known as The Hudson's Bay Company. New Pages in the History of the Canadian Northwest and Western States
New York: Moffat, Yard, 1911. First one volume edition (first was 1908, in two volumes). Green cloth. pp (xxii), (410); v-(x), 415 + 2 plates and 2 folding maps. Page edges yellowed, bookplate at front, page edges yellowed; VG otherwise. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.; Octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 44890More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE CONQUEST OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST: Being the story of the Adventurers of England known as The Hudson's Bay Company. New Pages in the history of the Canadian Northwest and Western States (2 volumes)
Edition: First Edition
New York: Outing, 1908. Two volumes, blue cloth gilt, dark blue top page edges, other edges rough trimmed. pp (xxii), 409 + addenda slip at p. xiii and numerous plates and maps, folding map at rear; (xii), 415 + plates and maps. Spines a bit sunned with gilt lettering dulled; private bookplate on front pastedowns; 22 April, 1909, ink gift inscription at front of Vol. I; Vol. II has a bruise to lower outer corner of front cover and front inner hinge neatly repaired with rice paper; else a VG clean and tight pair. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required.; Octavo
Condition: Very Good
Book ID: 29548More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
THE DENE: land and unity for the native people of the Mackenzie Valley. A statement of rights
Yellowknife, N.W.T: The Dene of the N.W.T, 1975. Octavo, pp [16], stapled in red card covers. Map, photos. Soft vertical crease to front cover, else a fine copy. A sketch history, explanation of grievences, and text of The Dene Declaration of rights. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 45374More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
THE LEGEND OF DANIEL WILLIAMS
Edition: First UK edition
London: Robert Hale, 1958. Octavo, green boards. pp 256. Fine copy, no owner names. Dust jacket has small chips and tears, VG otherwise. Story of an ex Negro slave who became an outlaw in the Canadian North West. "The little courtroom in Fort Saskatchewan was all but empty on a cold March day in the year 1880. The judge glanced at the giant Negro prisoner, Daniel Williams, and the accused outlaw, thief and murderer rose to his feet roaring 'Jesus, save me !' " - jacket flap.
Book ID: 31044More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50