Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: A FAIR TO POOR COPY OF THE TRUE FIRST PRINTING. HINGES BROKEN, BUT NOT SEPARATED, MAPS MISSING, ONE LOOSE PLATE, BOARDS AND SPINE LIGHTLY WORN, TEXT QUITE CLEAN. For information or rebinding.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Frontispiece has been cut out and is missing. One text leaf containing an illustration has also been cut out and is missing (pages 59-60, which had an illustration of a 20-point Wapiti Head on page 60). Inner hinges broken, with text block nearly completely separated from front board. Front free endpaper detached. No tears to the folding maps. ; xii, (1)-58, (61)-403 pages + plates + 1 leaf of "Press Opinions" + 3 folding maps in pocket at rear. Lacking the frontispiece and also lacking pages 59-60. With 75 of 77 illustrations. Some of the illustrations are full page plates, others are smaller in-text illustrations. Green buckram cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Top page edges gilt. Page dimensions: 238 x 160mm. ; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$190.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Occasional foxing, moreso to plates, but in general all is in good internal order. No inscriptions. Bookplate (John Wormald) to front pastedown. 3 good fold-out maps to rear pocket. Decorated boards rather worn with evidence of former label top front. 4to. 403pp
Seller: Dodman Books, Morston, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Some foxing to a few pages. Short gift inscription on front end page. Small mark on front cover. Hinges cracked. xii. 403 pages. 3 folding maps in rear pocket. In protective mylar cover. Top edge gilt. Chapters on hunting wapiti, mountain goat, moose, caribou, deer, bighorn, bear, bison and seal. Also, a chapter on the natural history of salmon on the Pacific slope." (Heller no12) Phillips p31; Bruns B-15.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.53 + shipping
Description: tall8vo, 24.5cm, The First Edition, xii,403,[2]p., (reviews), index, with a photogravure frontis portrait, and 77 plate illustrations, many text illustrations, 3 folded colour maps in rear pocket, in the original olive green linen, with gilt block decorated titles on the spine and upper cover, and floral black stamped decoration in the spine panels, bevelled boards, t.e.g., some fading at the outer and spine edges of the boards and on the inner dentelles, the laid paper endpapers are quite acidic, hinges shaken but holding, good to very good. Note. The copies on line would all seem to be in a later, (perhaps remaindered), plain cloth. Lowther #1458. Heller #12. Phillips p31. Bruns B-15. Hunting big game on the Pacific Slope and British Columbia, pioneer life in the Kootenay area of British Columbia, with a chapter on Chinese servants by Mrs. Baillie-Grohman.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada