George Simpson Introduction (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: NONE. Clean, unmarked, tight spine and flat pages. All edges have wear and all corners.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. İ 1969. 144 pp. Essentially flawless copy with previous owner's name written on first front-end page top corner. Minimal use and wear. Clean, crisp and bright pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Firmly bound with light handling wear including slight creases down the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Unnumbered limited edition issued to subscriber's of the Hudson's Bay Record Society. Bound in black cloth with gilt stamped cover and spine. Minor wear to edges and corners. Text and images unmarked. Small abrasions to front pastedown. Foldout maps are intact. The grey dust jacket is price-clipped and shows some light handling, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 212pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library. First Edition. No. 493 of 550 copies. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4." Pages lii, [3] 4-277, complete. Fifteen additional pages in back list the names of Society officers, Members, and Subscribing Libraries. Preface and Introduction in front. "Appendix A: Supplementary Documents," "Appendix B: Biographical," and Index in back. A few library marks present. Pages are clean and intact overall but have whiteout on a library mark on front pastedown, numerical ink stamp at bottom of Contents page, a few small stains on front and back pastedowns and first and last few leaves, age toning, and slight bumping to fore-edges. Covers are clean and intact except for slight darkening, light rubbing and fading, faded spot on spine from where a sticker used to be, slight wear to extremities, and a subtle skew in the binding where the front cover leans toward the fore-edge. Binding is loosened along the gutters but is still strong and holding. A Very Good copy. Volume X in The Hudson's Bay Company Series, a subset within The Publications of the Champlain Society series. This volume contains the transcription of a dispatch originally written by George Simpson (c. 1792-1860), the famous Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) administrator. This document records Simpson's second transcontinental journey to the Pacific which took place from 1828-1829. During this trip, Simpson first stopped at York Factory and then took the Peace River Route to the Columbia River. "Appendix A" contains many supplementary documents associated with Simpson's account. The supplementary documents are categorized into four categories, "The China Trade," "The American Boundary: The Columbia River Department, 1824-27," "The American Boundary: The Foreign Office, 1828-29," and "General." Front colophon: "Five Hundred and Fifty Copies of this Volume have been printed. Fifty are reserved for Editorial purposes. The remaining Five Hundred are supplied only to Members of the Society and to Subscribing Libraries. This copy is No. 493.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Limited Edition. No. 2165. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and gilt coat of arms decoration on front cover. Original beige paper dust jacket included. Dark brown lettering on beige dust jacket spine. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2." Pages lviii, [3] 4-212, complete. One black-and-white frontispiece of George Simpson and three black-and-white folding maps, complete. Seventeen additional pages in back list the names of Society Members and Subscribing Libraries. Preface, Introduction, and List of Letters in front. "Appendix A: The Correspondence: Notes on the Manuscript Originals and Copies," "Appendix B: The Authorship of Simpson's Narrative," and Index in back. Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning. Covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. Dust jacket are pristine and intact except for light age toning. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. This is Volume XXIX in the series, Publications of the Hudson's Bay Record Society. It contains transcriptions of a collection of letters originally written by HBC administrator George Simpson (c. 1792-1860) during his 1841-1842 circumnavigation around the world. The recipients of his letters were the Governor and Committee of Hudson's Bay Company (HBC)'s London Committee; John Henry Pelly, an HBC governor; and Pelly and Andrew Colvile in their capacities as agents of Puget's Sound Agricultural Company. His letters address a variety of subjects such as HBC business matters, interactions with specific individuals, and descriptions of his observations and experiences during his journey. Front colophon: "This copy is No. 2165 of a limited Edition which is issued only to subscribers to The Hudson's Bay Record Society.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original publisher's red cloth binding with gilt lettering on front cover and spine (spine faded to a light beige). 6 1/4" x 9." Pages xxxvi, [3] 4-370, complete. Appendix A, Appendix B, and Index in back. One folding map laid in back pocket, complete. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning and small spots of foxing limited to edges of text block. Covers are very clean and intact except for sunning or fading along spine. Binding is somewhat shaken but still strong and holding. A Very Good copy. Volume XXXI of the Harvard Historical Studies. This volume contains the text of a journal kept by George Simpson (c. 1792-1860), a Scottish explorer, entrepreneur, and colonial governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, during his 1824-1825 expedition from York Factory to Fort George and back. Excerpt from Introduction: "The accompanying journal of George Simpson is a memoir of trade and of empire. . His account opens with his embarkation in a North canoe on Hudson Bay bound for the Pacific and for the work of reorganizing this trade. He gives a lively narrative of his swift journey across the continent, with comments interspersed on the state of trade along his route. In Oregon the record becomes a record of Indian life, of trade problems, of the slashing reforms by which he revived a demoralized and profitless industry, and of his plans for holding possession of the country against any future competition of Americans. By the spring of 1825 he was on his way back to the east to report the results of his tour to his Council, a journey which proved to be a perilous one, and which is correspondingly exciting in the narrative.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First UK Edition. First UK edition, first impression - translated from the French by John A. Spaulding and George Simpson. Originally published in French as "Le Suicide" in 1897. ***Near fine in dark-green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and publisher's device to the spine. The boards are clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine just slightly creased. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Slight marks to the fore-edge of the page block. Internally also near fine, with two ownership names on the front free endpaper. Interior pages clean with no creases or tears. ***In a very good typographically printed dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped but has an additional publisher's 30/- net price sticker on the front flap. The dustwrapper is complete, with just slivers of loss at the head and tail of the spine and corner tips. Some slight creasing to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. No tears or chips. Dustwrapper nice and clean (please see scans). ***223mm x150mm. 404 pages including a detailed Index, plus a 16pp publisher's catalogue for The International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction at the back of the book. ***'David Émile Durkheim (15 Apr 1858 - 15 Nov 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies can maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity, an era in which traditional social and religious ties are much less universal, and in which new social institutions have come into being. Durkheim's conception of the scientific study of society laid the groundwork for modern sociology, and he used such scientific tools as statistics, surveys, and historical observation in his analysis of suicides in Catholic and Protestant groups. Durkheim's first major sociological work was "De la division du travail social" (The Division of Labour in Society) (1893); followed in 1895 by "Les Règles de la méthode sociologique" (The Rules of Sociological Method). Also in 1895 Durkheim set up the first European department of sociology and became France's first professor of sociology. Durkheim's seminal monograph, "Le Suicide" (1897), a study of suicide rates in Catholic and Protestant populations, pioneered modern social research, serving to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy.' (Wiki) ***'How can difference in the rate of suicide be explained? It was always possible to explain the incidence of suicide--why one person rather than another committed it--but the problem of why one country has a higher rate of suicide per thousand of the population than another, why one social class or religious group has a higher rate than another, was never adequately explained before Durkheim wrote his book. It was perhaps his most important work, serving for successive generations as a model in social theory. Its influence on the social sciences has increased with years.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper). ***First impression of the first UK edition - extremely hard to find now in the original dustwrapper. A scarce title in first edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Free Press Ppbk Edition 1966. 405 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.xiv,354, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and five further b/w plates; a very good copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which has chipping and several closed tears to extremities, most notably to ear upper margin.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.vii,444, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and one further b/w plate; a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped and worn to edges.

Condition: Very Good. 8vo., pp.xix,479, brown cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece and 2 further b/w plates; light foxing to top edges, a very good, clean copy, in an unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly chipped and worn to edges, with light surface soil to the pale paper, and a couple of small closed tears to the upper edge.