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MRS ALGERNON ST. MAUR. IMPRESSIONS OF A TENDERFOOT. JOHN MURRAY, 1890.
Price: US$130.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Covers a little grubby and binding loose but still in tact. Impressions of a Tenderfoot During a Journey in Search of Sport in The Far West. Map intact.
Seller: HAWKMOOR BOOKS LTD, WINCHESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: xv, 279, 32 p. 21 cm cloth hardcover binding with gold impressing on front board. Fold-out map and 7 b&w plates including frontispiece. Tan cloth. Spine darkened, hinges cracking, cloth soiled. Ex-library with labels and label residue on spine. Envelopes, barcode, and labels on endpapers. Map tape-repaired at crease. Pages clean and neat. Contents: Introduction; The Voyage-Land-Quebec; From Toronto to North Bay by the Great Lakes; Journey to Winnipeg-The Prairie to Calgary; Calgary-Mitford; Banff-Good Fishing in Minnewonka Lake; Vancouver-Victoria; Cowichan Lake-Our Hawati Indians - Down the Rapids; Victoria-Portland-Notes About Alaska; San Francisco and Chinatown-The Chinese Question; San Francisco-Monterey-Journey to Vancouver; Vancouver-Canoeing in Howe Sound; Glacier House-The Columbia River; Sam's Landing-The Trail to Findlay Creek-The Ponies; Fishing-Miners-Algernon's Diary; In Searh of Better Sport-Life at Findlay Creek-Goodbye-Days on the Trail; Brewer's "Stopping-House" - Hot Springs-Indian Women-From Windermere to Golden City; Notes about Early French Settlers-Hunting in the Moutain; The Prairie-Winnepeg-Moose Hunting-Manitoba; Life in a Lumber Camp; Homeward Bound.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.24 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original pale yellow cloth, gilt. Folding map, frontis., and 6 plates. Spine darkened and with significant general soiling. Extremities rubbed with some slight loss. A sound enough copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A signed copy of the first edition of the Duchess of Somerset's account of a journey taken through Canada with her husband, the Duke of Somerset. The first edition of this work, with the inscription 'presented to Mr A J Westover from the Duke & Duchess of Somerset, Christmas 1903, to a front blank.Illustrated with seven illustrated plates, and with a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete.In this work, Susan St Maur, Duchess of Somerset, provides an account of a journey made over several months across Canada in the company of her husband, the Duke of Somerset.She provides a vivid description of Canadian life and culture in the late nineteenth century. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with bumping to back strip head and tail, and a touch of cockling to the tail of the front board. Small closed tear to cloth at back strip head. Inscription to a front blank. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright, with a small number of leaves unopened to the head. Significant closed tears to fore edge of folding map. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 8 x 5.5 inches. Beige cloth covers with decorative gilt lettering to spine and front with gilt pictorial vignette to front. Black endpapers. In Very good condition. Some wear to cover: small nicks to ends of spine, a couple of minor handling marks to front else front bright; some soiling and bubbling to cloth on rear side. Endpapers clean, Author?s neat inscription to front ?To Lettice St. Maur, with the kind love of the Author Susan Somerset, telling of life in the far west. 1918.? (Susan Margaret St Maur, Duchess of Somerset, aka: Mrs Algernon St. Maur.) Inside pages all very clean and tight, one or tow very minor handling marks, and one area of light foxing between p72-3. Edge of map rubbed from sitting slightly proud. Else a very clean and tight copy. 279pp. Folding map at rear. With 7 full page B&W illustrations.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
St Maur, Mrs. Algernon. IMPRESSIONS OF A TENDERFOOT. London, John Murray, 1890, 1890.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, brown cream boards with gold stamping of an indian with rifle on horse on front board, an almost fine copy with very slight rubbing.FULL PAGE INSCRIPTION.signed by the AUTHOR.in 1924.279pp with fold-out map (LI1)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.