Mctavish George Simpson (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Worn Dust Jacket. An Autobiography by George Simpson McTavish Chief Trader Hudson's Bay Company.Maroon binding with gilt title and author on spine. 249pp with content clean, bright and sound. Illustrated with B/S Photos. (illustrator). …

Hardcover. 8vo. Bound in oxblood cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations. Light shelfwear, corners bumped, occasional underlining, paste down revision to title page; good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, (6), 249 pgs, photo illustrations. BOOK DESCRIPTION: Near fine in publishers dark maroon cloth with minor soiling, gilt title on spine. Interior has inked former owner's name / city, else is clean and tight. Pasted on title page is the revised publication and distribution notice from Miss Evelyn Gurd, the publisher and with Gray's Publishing in Sidney, BC as the distributor. Unclipped DJ is soiled. Evidence of where the publisher's added printed paper strip over the DJ has been removed on front and back panel with some loss of text. This publisher's printed feature that attached to the original dust jacket in not present. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: From the DJ: "This book deals with the salient features of the Hudson's Bay Company. A notable feature of this work is its contribution to geography, botany, meteorology, ethnically, dietetics, psychology (normal and morbid)." The author left his home in the Orkneys at the age of 15 to engage with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1897. He served in a number of positions in the North, met the explorers and travelers of the day, and was still working at the HBC's 250 Anniversary and retired in 1928. This is a very good and informative book with much interesting information of the era in the Canadian North. Nicely illustrated. NOTE: Shipping to Canada will be based on weight and adjusted accordingly; this book is smaller than average.…

1963. (Cloth) Very good in good dust jacket. 249pp. Former owner's name. DJ chipped at head and heal. Jacket protected and has Publishers advert still attached. McTavish was Chief Trader, Hudson's Bay Co. He joined the Company in 1878. R.M. Patterson says, "Mr. McTavish's book is the old life complete, as he saw it, and brings to us the daily incidents and the details of the seasonal routine which are lacking from the more formal histories.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. George Simpson McTavish of Stromness, Orkney Islands signed on for a ten year stint with the Hudson's Bay Company in 1879. He was less than twenty years old at the time. He served at York Factory. THESE 249 pages describe his impressions of those years and the people he met. TEXT assisted by b/w photos. Some commentary on his later life at page 239. LEARN more about : William Ouligbuck, Whalebone Point, Ocean Nymph, hard-tack, Nellie Spencer, Wastesecoot, the Cam Owen, and Cape Tatnam. Cond : Boards are burgundy with gilt lettering on spine only. End-papers are white. Volume is square, tight, and bright. P/O name (pencil) on ffep. No marks, creases, nor tears. CLEAN !! No bumps. Giftable !! Quote (p. 60) : " Mention has to be made of the library. York Factory was fortunate in having a goodly collection of books, amounting to nineteen hundred volumes when I left in 1889. Who started the library is probably unknown, but the process of . ." Size: Octavo. B/W Photographs (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st Edition. Published privately by Miss Evelyn Gurd, Colonist Printers Limited, dj bright but some areas covered with a sticker residue, illustrated with b/w photos, unmarked, 249pp, NF/G-. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine copy, in jacket with slightest wear to extremities and top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Published by Miss Evelyn Gurd on behalf of her sister, the late Mrs Lillian McTavish, widow of the author, Mr. G.S. McTavish. Distributed by Gray's Publishing Canada. Colonist Printers limited, Victoria, B.C. Very good condition, reddish brown boards with slight scattered foxing to upper page edges. Many b/w plates. Unclipped jacket with orange publication information stuck to centre wrapped round. Chips and tears to jacket. 'This book deals with the salient features of the Hudson's Bay Company.' (foreword). …

Condition: fine. 249pp. Octavo. Illustrated with plates from photos. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine in dust jacket. Small tears and chips to edges of dust jacket. Fine condition.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Torn and Chipped. 8vo pp. (8), 249, b/w photographs. book.