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The North West Company
by Davidson, Gordon Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1918. First Edition. Near fine in its original dark blue, patterned cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/2 by 6 1/4 inches with minor hints of rubbing to the cloth at the ends of the spine. Without a dust jacket, but protected by a clear Mylar covering. This is volume VII of the University of California's Publications In History edited by H. Morse Stephens and Herbert E. Bolton. 349 pages including two indexes, appendices, bibliography and text. Illustrated with a fold-out map of the Principal Trading Stations of the North West Company and four fold-out maps. Considered by Wright Howes in his bibliography : U.S.Iana to be "quite scarce". An extremely handsome and clean copy with no prior ownership markings of any kind. (Howes, D-90; Ewers p. 136)
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32885
- Title
- The North West Company
- Author
- Davidson, Gordon Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1918
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Gilt
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Quarto
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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