Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Shields, G. O.. Cruisings in the Cascades. Rand, McNally & Company, 1889.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Dark teal cloth with gilt titling and decoration; in a clumsy modern rebind, which retains the original backstrip laid over green cloth spine, also preserving the original cloth boards. Heavy rubbing edgewear to original boards, including frayed fore-edge corners. New binding is sound, with no loose or missing pages. Fresh endsheets. Pages toned with intermittent staining, a few stray pencil markings. Condition: fair.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Shields, G. O.. Cruisings in the Cascades. Rand, McNally & Company, 1889.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Dark teal cloth with gilt titling and decoration; in a clumsy modern rebind, which retains the original backstrip laid over green cloth spine, also preserving the original cloth boards. Heavy rubbing edgewear to original boards, including frayed fore-edge corners. New binding is sound, with no loose or missing pages. Fresh endsheets. Pages toned with intermittent staining, a few stray pencil markings. Condition: fair.
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover in Good+ condition, 8vo, Blue cloth with titles and decoration in gold, botanical end-papers, portrait frontis, decorative chapter initials, numerous black-and-white illustrations. Tips and spine-ends worn, slightly cocked. Bookseller accession no.: RTa34. Chapters on Hunting the grizzly bear, the buffalo, elk, antelope, Rocky Mountain goat, and deer; also on trouting in the Rocky Mountains; on a Montana round-up; life among the cowboys, etc. George O. Shields, born 1846 in Ohio, was an author and lecturer on Western U.S. travel, hunting, fishing, and outdoor recreation. He died in New York City in 1925.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Shields, G.O.. Cruisings In The Cascades. Rand, McNally and Company, 1889.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth gilt decorated binding
Seller: Peasant Birch Booksellers, Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 339p, A compression tear in spine
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 339 pgs + 12 pegs advertising, bound in red patterned cloth with gilt decoration and gilt titled spine and cover. First edition. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor rubbing to edges, front cover with two small spots, else clean and bright. interior is clean and tight. Inked gift inscription on preliminary page. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Noted naturalist and writer here provides his adventures in the West and Pacific Northwest. With chapters on hunting the grizzly, buffalo, elk, antelope, Rocky Mountain goats; trout fishing, and adventures on a Montana round-up and among the cowboys.
Seller: NorthStar Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
G. O. Shields. Cruisings in the Cascades and Other Hunting Adventures. Rand McNally & Company, 1889.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. No DJ. Red cloth boards with gold gilt upper & spine text. Faded/sunned/soiled with age and use. Shaken/Upper board very loose, binding pulling from spine but secure/intact. lower portion of spine wrap missing. Rubbed/scuffed/torn, corner bumped. Pages toned with age. Prior owner library plate FFEP. Photo requests encouraged prior to purchase. Shelved in plastic. Additional shipping cost required for insurance, amount according to USPS and destination.
Seller: Burm Booksellers, Beckley, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$152.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark brown cloth binding. Illustrated in gilt to front board and spine. Decorative endpapers. Discolouration to spine and board edges. Small stain to margin of two contents pages, text is otherwise in excellent condition throughout. Illustrated. Overall condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: Europe £14.00; USA £27.60; Oceania £28.90; Rest of World £24.15. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 6.25 x 8.75 inches (16 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. 339, [1], [12] (ads)
Seller: Tarrington Books, Tarrington, HEF, United Kingdom
Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 340 pp. Original red cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding discolored and faded. Spine sunned w/ light fraying to ends. Light scattered foxing. Illust. w/ b/w drawings.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: 339 Stirring stories of hunting Western big game in the last years of the 19th century.
Seller: Antiques & Art, Piedmont, SD, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Near fine copy (very light shelf wear). 339 pps. + ads.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 339 pages; Covers with some light rubbing and wear. Interior very clean and tight.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. (22 cm.) [6]7-339p. Plus 12p. ads. Frontispiece black and white drawing of the author and profusely (!!) illustrated with black and white captioned photos and engravings throughout, including many head and tail pieces. Brown cloth blocked in triple blind; with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine; with a vignette in gilt on the front cover of an eight-point stag and a vignette on the spine of a stuffed stag head, a fishing rod and creel, and a long gun. Decorated endpapers. Some wear to extremities with a couple of corners just beginning to fray, top and bottom of spine just barely starting to fray, cloth clean, gilt bright, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, all illustrations in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. Rampaging Herd 2060. The articles on elk, bear, and antelope hunting were first published in Harper's Magazine; those on buffalo hunting and trouting, in the "Outing" magazine. George O. Shields also wrote HUNTING IN THE GREAT WEST. RUSTLING IN THE ROCKIES and THE BATTLE OF THE BIG HOLE. AN AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF GEN. GIBBON'S ENGAGEMENT WITH NEZ PERCE INDIANS, IN THE BIG HOLE VALLEY, MONTANA.
Seller: Live Oak Booksellers, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$333.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 339 + [12]ads. frontis. & numerous text illus. (some full-page). original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (covers spotted). First Edition. Adams, Rampaging Herd, 2060. Smith 9422. Starkman & Read p. 105. cfSlater p. 33.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada