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Ernest Thompson Seton. The Arctic Prairies. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
Price: US$24.07 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1911. No Edition Remarks. 415 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are rough cut. Notable tearing to front paste-down. Insect damage to rear board. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a pencil inscription on paste-down. Minor dog-eared corners, with a few small nicks and creases along text block edge. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting. Binding remains firm. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with mild bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends. Boards are subtle bowed.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Charles Scribner's Sons January 1911 Binding: Hardcover
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Used-Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo., 415 pp., corners lightly bumped, light toning to pages .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Charles Scribner's Sons. 1911. xvi+415pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. In very good condition. Gilt bright on cover but slightly chipped on spine. Light overall shelfwear with several bubbles to cloth on rear board. Several edge points gently bumped. Internally, bookplate to iniside front board but otherwise pages clean and bright. A very good copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$84.56 + shipping
Description: 22cm. The First Edition, xvi,415p. with 54 plates and illustrations from photographs & 125 text illustrations, appendices, original blind decorated green cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, a fine copy. A.B. 15779. The author's trip down the Athabaska and Slave Rivers, by Great Slave Lake, northeast to the Aylmer and Clinton-Colden Lakes regions of the barren grounds. Observations on the natural history appear throughout. The first London edition was in 1912.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A RARE TITLE SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE AUTHORS EXPEDITION BY CANOE IN SEARCH OF THE CARIBOU IN THE FAR NORTH WEST OF CANADA BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE FOREMOST WRITERS OF NATURE AND ITS STUDY BOOK STATES 1911 ON TITLE AND COPYRIGHT PAGES AND STATES PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 1911 WITH COLOPHON AT BOTTOM OF PAGE VERY WELL PRESERVED BOUND IN GREEN WITH BRIGHT GOLD LETTERING AND BLIND STAMP DESIGN OF HORNS ON THE FRONT COVER PREVIOUS OWNERS BOOKPLATE AN EXCELLENT COPY
Seller: ARD Books, cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: xvi, 415 pages of text. Green hardcover cloth binding with minimal shelfwear; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. Illustrated with 54 black & white plates, and 125 in-text drawings (including maps). Edward A. Preble, trained American naturalist, was Seton's only company on this journey. Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946). First American edition. Size: Octavo (8vo)
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Ernest Thompson Seton. THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1911.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 415p. A green cloth hardcover book in good condition. Gilt cover lettering shiny. A few small stains on covers. Hinges are weak, but the book remains whole and secure enough for normal handling. Text clean. Black-and-white illustrations throughout.
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Frontispiece, 33 plates. 416 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green gilt-stamped cloth. Ex-library, with shelf number on spine, card-pocket removed from rear pastedown. Spot on front cover, else very good Frontispiece, 33 plates. 416 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$112.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. xvi,415pp. Octavo in original gilt lettered green cloth with plates (including frontispiece) from photos and illustrations from drawings (including maps). Faint dampstain lower right hand corner of text block and along bottom edge else a nice clean bright copy. very good AB 15779. Account of a naturalist's trip with E. A. Preble of the U.S. Biological Survey in May of 1907, down the Athabaska and Slave Rivers, by Great Slave Lake northest to the Aylmer and Clinton-Colden Lakes region of the Barren Grounds. Appendices lists of insects, plants, mammals, and birds.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo (9 x 5.75"), green cloth, gilt. Blind stamped caribou horns on cover. 415pp with index and appendices. Frontispiece and 53 plates in black and white. Light wear at the extremities. Top edge dusty. A nice copy. Account of the author's journey down the Athabasca and Slave Rivers to Slave Lake and northeast to the Aylmer and Clinton-Colden Lakes.
Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.
Seton, Ernest Thompson. The Arctic Prairies. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth over boards, bright gilt on cover and spine. Bottom corner of front board bumped. Gift inscription in pencil on front endpaper, otherwise clean throughout. B/W photos throughout.
Seller: Bearly Read Books, Sudbury, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. Dark green cloth boards with caribou head blindstamped on front cover. NEAR FINE. Has prior owner's name on ffep. No other marks. Tight square binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.