Search Results: the romance of commerce by j macdonald oxley

W. & R. Chambers, 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1897. No Edition Remarks. 242 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with plate to front. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean, with tanning overall.

W & R Chambers. 1897 W & R Chambers first edition hardback, bright pictorial boards, decorated end papers; very good lightly aged copy; no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1897.

Toronto. The Musson Book Co. N.d., [1900?]. Hardcover. 12mo, 18cm, 242p., (British sheets), colour frontis & 14 plates, original colour pictorial decorated blue cloth, black and gilt block titles on the spine and upper cover, a near fine copy James Macdonald Oxley was born in Nova Scotia in 1855 and became a very successful and prolific writer of booksfor boys. This book relates mainly to Canadian subjects: the Hudson Bay Company, Canadian Pacific Railway, lumbering, trapping, Eskimo and Indian life, the North-West Passage.

London: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd.. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue pictorial cloth, gilt titles, edges lightly rubbed, prize bookplate, a lovely, clean tight copy. Hudson Bay interest. An interesting report on the various commercial enterprises of the age ranging from tulip exports from Holland to the search for the North West Passage. ; 8" x 5"; 242 pages .