Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$31.18 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1924. First Edition. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Contains black and white plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Some tanning to spine and edges. Light marks overall. Sticker to spine.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Adhesive tape across tail of spine. Library rubber stamp across corner of most of the plates. Front hinge broken. Complete.; [xii], 252 pages + frontispiece + 15 plates. Original brown cloth boards. Page dimensions: 188 x 125mm. ; 12mo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$74.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 252 pp. 12mo. Illustrated with 16 plates from photos (including frontispiece). Original brown cloth with blue lettering on front cover and lettering on spine. Slight wear on the top and bottom of spine. Text is clean and binding intact. Quarter page inscription from previous owner written on front end paper. In overall good, unfaded condition. Peel (3), 4949. A narritive of the author's experiences with the Canadian Pacific Railway in driving the first stake in 1871 to the last spike in 1885.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$92.35 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The author was intimately concerned with the early years (1871-1885) of the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway and here gives a racy and vivid account of the adventure and enterprise involved. HB. Tan cloth boards with dark-maroon-brown lettering to spine & fnt. 252 pages including 15 b&w illustrations + frontis. Some light foxing to page fore-edges only. DJ unclipped with wear and small tears around edges & corners; somewhat grubby around the dj spine and top edge. Book tight and clean.
Seller: Carrick-White Ltd., West Looe Cornwall, United Kingdom
Price: US$112.18 + shipping
Description: 19cm, first edition, 252p. with 16illustrations, tan cloth, black titles, a fine copy in very good jacket,scarce in jacket. (Cdn) Peel 2909. The Canadian Pacific Railway.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$134.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [16], 1 leaf, 252pp. 12mo. Illustrated with 16 plates from photos (including frontispiece). Original brown cloth with blue lettering on front cover and faded lettering on spine. Corners lightly bumped. Overall in good condition. Peel (3), 4949. A narritive of the author's experiences with the Canadian Pacific Railway in driving the first stake in 1871 to the last spike in 1885.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$186.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [16], 1 leaf, 252pp. 12mo. Illustrated with 16 plates from photos (including frontispiece). Original brown cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. Dan McCowan's copy with his signature on front free endpaper. very good Peel (3), 4949. A narritive of the author's experiences with the Canadian Pacific Railway in driving the first stake in 1871 to the last spike in 1885.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
SECRETAN, J.H.E.. Canada's Great Highway. 1st UK no dj. 1924,, 1924.
Price: US$186.97 + shipping
Description: SECRETAN, J.H.E. Canada's Great Highway : From the First Stake to the Last Spike. With 16 Illustrations from Photographs. L.: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1924). First Printing. Pp 252. 8vo, brown cloth. Covers lightly rubbed, foxed throughout, else vg. Scarce. 250.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 252 pages/16 illustrations/tan cloth. This book is scarce in a dust jacket
Seller: Empire Books, Victoria, BC, Canada