Solitary Rambles and Adventures Of a Hunter In the Prairies

London: John Murray, 1853. First edition, 8vo, pp. [xvi], 326, [2] ads; 7 engraved plates including frontispiece; small chip to foot of spine, names in ink to front endpapers, a bit shaken, still about very good and sound in original decorative black and white cloth gilt. Palliser (1807-1887) is best known for his explorations of the 49° and 50°… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1853. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xix, 326. 8vo. Bound in original grey-brown speckled cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt-embossed buffalo on the front board. With the original pictorial title page and seven other tissue-guarded, black-&-white illustrations. Two pages of advertising at end removed. October, 1853, signature of former owner inside front board; gift inscript.… Read more about this item

Originally published in 1853 in London. New introduction by Hugh A. Dempsey. Author was the leader of a British government expedition to explore the area between the Red River and Rocky Mountains and from the North Saskatchewan River to the American border. Light green full cloth boards, 326 pages. Top edges of boards lightly sunned, faint abrasion to… Read more about this item

Hurtig , 1969 xxiii, 326 pp. Originally published in 1853. Palliser's account of his wanderings in the 1840s in Arkansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and, possibly, Saskatchewan. Introduction by Hugh A. Dempsey. Illustrated. Gray cloth with black spine lettering. Bright clean copy. Top half of DJ has some fading, bit of wear along spine head.

Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 8vo. pp. 326, b/w illustrations.

1853. PALLISER, John. Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies. London: John Murray, 1853. 1st ed. xiv, 326 pp. Frontis, engraved title page, illus. Orig. gilt-pictorial cloth. Rebacked, orig. spine laid down, corners worn, light uniform toning, and small amount of faint scattered foxing, else a very good copy. HOWES P-43, "aa." Graff 3168. Wagner-Camp 228:1.… Read more about this item

1853. PALLISER, John. Solitary Rambles and Adventures of a Hunter in the Prairies. London: John Murray, 1853. 1st ed. xiv, 326 pp. Frontis, engraved title page, illus. Later 19th-century cloth. Light wear to spine ends, cloth faded, else a very good copy. HOWES P-43, "aa." Graff 3168. Wagner-Camp 228:1. Rader 2578. Palliser travelled to the U.S. to hunt in… Read more about this item

Charles E. Tuttle Co, 1969. First printing thus. Fine in fine, corner-clipped dust jacket, in mylar cover..

London: John Murray, 1853., 1853. 8vo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf], 326, [2]ads. 8 wood-engraved plates (incl. frontis. & additional title vignette). with half-title. contemporary polished calf, rebacked with gilt spine mounted, all edges gilt (scratch on upper cover). First Edition of this account of a hunting tour of the American west made in 1847-48. Palliser is best remembered as the… Read more about this item

Andesite Press, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Canada: M. G. Hurtig Ltd., 1969. Book. Good. Hardcover. Spine is faded. Clean tight copy..

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.