Portland: The Champoeg Press, 1959. First Edition. 148pp. Quarto [27 cm] Green cloth with title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. Some of the pages are uncut. In 1836, the Hudson's Bay Company assigned ordained Anglican priest, Herbert Beaver, to serve as the first chaplain to the..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1961. First Edition. 432pp. Octavo [25 cm] Light blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Good/Very good. Price-clipped jackets shows general overall wear with chipped corners. Lacks maps. "For the period in which RMF grew to be 'the greatest name in the..... More
Pierre, SD: Lawrence K. Fox - Superintendent, Department of History, State of South Dakota, 1932. 458pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon was appointed main trader at Fort Clark, a post of the American..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. First Edition. 222pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and bands gilt on the backstrip. Both the book and jacket are better than very good. This is volume 64 in the 'American Exploration and Travel Series.'. Born in 1790 in Canada, Peter..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Incorporated, 1965. 2 volume set. 1027pp. Octavos [23.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the titles gilt on the backstrips. Both volumes near fine in like slipcase with paper printed label. Complete with maps in pocket at the rear of vol. II. Volume I: The Red River of..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1967. First Edition. 144pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Near fine/Near fine. A juvenile edition of Greenwood's biography compiled from Dale Morgan and Charles Kelly's book, and printed by the same press. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. First Edition. 320pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust colored cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. "Kit Carson's life story is, in essence, the story of the West as that region developed over the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. As such..... More
Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1978. First Edition. 328pp. Quarto [28 cm] Brown grained buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. "King of Old Oregon, Emperor of the West, King of the Columbia, Great White Eagle, Savior of Oregon, Founder of Oregon..... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969. First Edition. 337pp. Octavo [24 cm] Blue cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. "The critical problem arising from Russian expansion across Asia was that of supplying the outermost reaches with food. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the..... More
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992. First Edition. 422pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with the title in gilt on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Map endsheets and pastedowns. "While previous studies have concentrated on the boom years of the fur trade, before the War of 1812, Gibson reveals that..... More
Portland: Oregon Historical Society, 1979. First Edition. 249pp. Quarto [28 cm] Gray cloth with title in black on the front board and backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket's spine is sun faded. Translated with introduction and notes by Basil Dmytryshyn and E.A.P. Crownhart-Vaughan. "The four sections of the report and the..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Signed limited edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Housed in a double slipcase covered in red and green cloth. Paper label on green slipcase. Book in fine condition with the slipcases showing minor rubbing at the..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977. First Edition. 306pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title in white on the front board and backstrip. Very good. Gentle sun fading to the backstrip. Map present in the rear pocket. "After the coalition of the North West and Hudson's Bay companies..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. First Edition. 86pp. Folio [ ] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. Gentle sunning to the backstrip with a bookplate on the front pastedown. Complete with all seven maps. The four page prospectus is laid in..... More
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1970, 1976, 1976. First Edition. Three volume set. 288, 294pp Octavos [23 cm] Brown cloth. The text volumes are near fine in like jackets - the map [102 cm x 84 cm] volume is near fine. - 'A Scientist on the Mississippi Headwaters With Notes on..... More
London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1950. First Edition. 283pp. Octavo [25 cm] Dark blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. Both maps present in the rear pocket. The Hudson's Bay Record Society Publications, Volume XIII. Ogden's expedition of 1824–25 was the first..... More
London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1961. First Edition. 255pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Both maps present in the rear pocket. The Hudson's Bay Record Society Publications, Volume XXIII. Ogden's expedition of 1826-27 traveled through the Klamath country, a part..... More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938. First Edition. 90pp. Quarto [27 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over blue boards. Title in white on front board and on a label on the backstrip. Volume is fine. Age toning to publisher's glassine jacket. Historical Documents Institut Francais de Washington Cahier XI (11)..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1950. First Edition. 325pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Gray cloth with the title on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Gentle wear to the crown of the price clipped jacket. This is volume 13 in the 'The American Exploration and Travel Series.'. "More than a travel book..... More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1963. First Edition. 490pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Orange cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. "The Astor story is a major epic. It encompasses the heroism of the men who..... More
St. Paul: Alvord Memorial Commission, 1951. First Edition. 395pp. Octavo [24 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Good/Very good. Price clipped jacket shows minor rubbing to extremities with nicking at the corners and subtle sun fading to head of jacket. Internally nice. "At Fort Stevenson..... More
Oakland, CA: Brooks-Sterling Company, 1974. 602pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Publisher's burgundy grained buckram. Spine of jacket sun faded, otherwise very good/very good. "On the trail for precious furs, their travels took them to the Pacific Coast and back, and into and out of the angry Blackfeet country and across the..... More
Stockton, CA: The Jedediah Smith, 1984. First Edition. 48pp. Quarto [28 cm] Tan illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Short illustrated work that contains a brief biographical sketch of the legendary mountain man and pathfinder which is followed by a list of all the monuments of Smith. Each listing includes the location..... More
Pasadena: Westernlore Press, 1979. Revised Edition. 125pp. Quarto [28.5 cm] Blue grained buckram. Near fine/Near fine. Profusely illustrated. Woodward formally curator of history and anthropology of the Los Angeles County Museum, has compiled an excellent anthology of writings on the material culture of the fur trade. This is a very..... More