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Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Type: Hard Back Third Printing, revised 1981. The Old West Series. Hardcover Book in Very Good + Condition. No Jacket, as issued. Lavishly illustrated with rare vintage photographs, numerous paintings, specifically commissioned drawings. Embossed design on brown leather binding with pictorial cameo inset of French-Canadian voyageurs guiding their fragile 36-foot birchbark canoe down a series of fearsome rapids in the 1860s. The artist, Frances Ann Hopkins, is in the canoe. Gilt titled on spine. Very clean and completely unmarked. Slight wear to spine heel edge, trace wear to spine head edges, and a touch of wear to upper rear corner--all quite minor. Internals are As New. Binding tight , solid and square. An illustrated account of the opening up of the vast Canadian wilderness, stretching from the Great lakes to the Pacific Ocean. It was yielded with great reluctance to the French and British adventurers who went west in search of furs, then gold, and finally farmland. 240 pages with bibliography and index. 11.25 x 8.75 inches. Time-Life Books, Alexandria. VA, 1981.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Leather bound hardcover in very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the brown leather cover.

Hardcover. Condition: COLLECTIBLE - NEW. First Edition, First Printing. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Stated First Printing. Published w/o ISBN; ISBN subsequently assigned. Tooled faux-leather, padded boards w/pictorical pastedown. History of the early ranchers of American West who carved a great industry out of the wilderness. Text in 6 chapters accompanied by illustrations: 1, A Life Carved out of the Plains; 2, Battling the Odds & Elements; 3, A Wave of Woollybacks; 4, War Over Land & Water; 5, Bluebloods & Big Money in the Badlands; and, 6, "Behold Our Ditches!".

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None as Issued. First Edition, 2nd Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Illustrated boards w/black cloth backstrap/NF w/light rubs to lower edges. DJ/None as Issued. A prose and photographic essay of unspoilt regions of New England.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. L2 - Book has very light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise fine. Brown faux leather emboss on the front with gilt lettering on the spine and colored pictorial adhered on the upper front. The Old West: The Canadians. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.