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Zancudo Press, 2008-04-01. Hardcover. Used: Good.

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New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. First Edition. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration, 214 pp, photographic illustrations, two folding maps at rear. Gift inscription to front endpaper, from one mining engineer (W.R. Crane) to another (C.W. Wright). A good, bright copy with wear and discoloration to corners and edges of covers, slight chipping to portion of text block edge, mild soiling to covers, bit of toning and foxing to pages, dulling to spine lettering.

New York and London:  G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press,, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition /In quite good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed pictorial navy cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xv, 285 w/ appendices. Illustrated with colour frontis of the author and180 b-w halftone plates as well as two,-unopened- large folded maps of northwestern Canada. The dust jacket boasts a quarter-inch, chip in the upper right hand front corner and a quite attractive map-like tea stain on the backside; otherwise bright and clean. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... A First hand account of a three-man mining expedition, -(1911-12)-. along the Coppermine River which straddles the Arctic Circle. With "an account of the wintering at Great Bear Lake, and a second journey down the Coppermine to its mouth; descriptions of the routes (with map), natural history, Indians and Eskimos; the hunting and… Read More

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1914 . First edition, 4to, original blue cloth, front board lettered and decorated in gilt and black. With the dust jacket.

New York: Putnam's Sons, 1914. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. xv, 285pp. Octavo. Bound in original gilt decorated blue boards. Coloured frontisipiece. 181 black and white illustrations from photos. Two folding maps at the end. Top edge gilt. Foredge has some mild foxing otherwise the book is very clean. Dust jacket has minor wear at the top of the spine otherwise is in very nice condition. very good Arctic Bibl. 4074. Story of a three man expedition to the Coppermine via Great Bear Lake, a winter at Great Bear, then down the Coppermine to its mouth the following summer. A barren lands classic and a wonderful read. This copy inscribed to Miss D Mevell in memory of her brother Cosmo from the author. Cosmo Melvill(e) was a British Big Game Hunter who made a trip tot he Barrens. Several pages have annotations in the authors hand. A prime and very collectable copy of the book. 1914

New York & London, 1914.. xvi,285pp. plus illustrated frontispiece portrait and two folding maps. Includes 180 photographs in the text, all by the author. Original blue publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and black. Light wear to edges of jacket, with small chips at head of spine and short separation at foot of front hinge fold. 20th-century bookplate on front pastedown. Light foxing to titlepage, otherwise internally clean. A near fine copy. In the original printed dust jacket, in very good condition. A rare narrative of an expedition undertaken by August Sandberg, L.D. Douglas, and the author in 1911-12, down the Athabasca and Mackenzie rivers, to Great Bear Lake, Dease River, Dismal Lakes, and the Kendall River to Coppermine River. Includes "an account of the wintering at Great Bear Lake, and a second journey down the Coppermine to its mouth; descriptions of the routes (with map), natural history, Indians and Eskimos; the hunting and geological observations and prospecting especially in the Copper… Read More

New York; London: G. P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 9" by 6.5". George M. Douglas. A superior first edition copy of George Douglas' exploration work on the Coppermine River, including a signed letter by his first cousin once removed, Lewis Douglas. The first edition of this work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.Signed letter from Lewis Williams Douglas III loosely inserted, dated September 30 1966, 'Dear Luigi: I thought you would like to have a copy of LANDS FORLORN which your Great, Great Grandfather financed and NEW ENGLAND and NEW FRANCE which he wrote, so much love, Lula, Master Lewis Williams Douglas III'.Lewis Douglas was a politician, businessman, and academic, his father was the author's cousin.George Douglas' first hand account of the 1911-12 expedition of the Coppermine River in Canada, a three man expedition led by Douglas.The purpose of the expedition was to search for minerals in the watershed of the Coppermine about the… Read More