The Red River Settlement

Edmonton: Hurtig [0-88830-054-9] [1972], 1st Hurtig Edition. (Hardcover) 416pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. Illustrations, appendices. The dust jacket spine is faded and there is a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. (Manitoba).

Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1972. Spine of unclipped dustwrapper is quite badly faded, with some wear to the edges of same. Top inch of the f/ep has been cut off (probably had a previous owner's name) but another name written below. Otherwise a good clean tight copy in crimson boards of this hard-cover book which was originally printed in… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1856. First Edition . 3/4 Calf/Marbled Boards. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Contains 416 pp., lithograph frontispiece, marbled end pages and page ends; portions of the marbled covers are peeled and rubbed, small portions of the leather spine and corners are peeled and scuffed; a respectable,… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder and Co, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. pp. xvi, 416, lithographed frontis. Original blind stamped cloth. Re-backed, keeping the original spine which is faded and chipped, with some loss at the head and foot. Small dampstain to lower innner corner of the frontis. Previous owner's embossed stamp to lower corner of the title page.… Read more about this item

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Ross and Haines, Inc., 1957. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First reprint of the 1856 original. Limited edition of 1500 copies, of which this is number 422. Pp. xvi, (6), 416, appendices A, B, C, D, octavo format in red cloth with gilt titles, dust jacket. Text is lightly worn… Read more about this item

London: Smith, Elder And Co., 1856., 1856. 12mo. pp. xvi, 416. lithographed frontis. of Fort Garry. contemporary half calf (somewhat rubbed, several library rubberstamps, light foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. The Scottish-born Ross retired to the Red River Settlement in 1825 after fifteen years' service in the employ of the Pacific Fur Company, the North West Company, and the… Read more about this item

London, 1856. [16],416pp. Frontispiece. Original maroon cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down (worn). Internally clean. Good. One of the classic works on the Red River colony, and like the author's other works, an essential book on the development of the fur trade. SABIN 73228. GRAFF 3579. FIELD 1327. TPL 3304. WAGNER-CAMP 279d. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 137… Read more about this item

ROSS, Alexander. The Red River Settlement: Its Rise, Progress, and Present State. With Some Account of the Native Races and Its General History, to the Present Day. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1856. Frontis. xvi, 416pp. plus 16pp. of publisher's advts., dated March, 1856. Orig. cloth. A very good copy. Field 1327. Sabin 73328. The author spent many years… Read more about this item

Hurtig , 1972 xxviii, 416 pp. Originally published in 1856. Ross's "analysis of colony life." Introduction by W. L. Morton. Red cloth with black spine label. Bright clean copy. DJ price-clipped, some light fading to spine.

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