Hudson's Bay Trader
by Tweedsmuir, Lord
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Clerke & Cockeran. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ shows light shelf wear with short tears, chipping, light soil. Tape remnants on inside front and back DJ flaps. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. Illustrated throughout by photographs which were, for the most part, the author's own. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 176 pages; The second Lord Tweedsmuir, oldest son of the author, John Buchan, spent a number of years in Canada. He was also John Buchan but better known as Johnnie. He spent 1938-1939 as a fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company in the far north at Cape Dorset on Baffin Island. This is his diary of that time. It was from this diary that his father took the background information for his last book 'Sick Heart River', published posthumously in 1941. .
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- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18866
- Title
- Hudson's Bay Trader
- Author
- Tweedsmuir, Lord
- Illustrator
- Map Endpapers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- Clerke & Cockeran
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- Hudsons Bay Company, sick heart river, John Buchan, Baffin Island, Cape dorset, Fur Trade
- Bookseller catalogs
- NORTH;
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Ainsworth Books
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Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- Shelf Wear
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
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- Flap(s)
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.