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Price: US$323.04 + 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
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.