Wanderings of an Artist Among the Indians of North America From Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon Through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again by Kane, Paul - 1925

22 black & white illustrations inc. fldg frontis

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Hurtig Publishers, 1974. Soft cover. Very Good. In Very Good Used Condition. With Minor Shelf Wear To Edges and/or Turned Corners. - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Vintage 1974 An Unread Copy Invaluable firsthand account of two journeys (1845-48) by Canadian artist through Northwest Territories of Canada and the U.S. Wealth of information on Indian life and customs, myths, hunting rituals, etc., interwoven with gripping accounts of incredible hardships: hostile tribes, lack of food, ferocious animals, much more. Rare, important ethnological sourcebook that is also a riveting adventure story.

Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Toronto: The Radisson Society of Canada, 1925, 329 pages. The interior is very clean, tight and unmarked. The binding is red cloth with a gilt stamped spine. The boards are heavily foxed and discolored but the binding is very tight and sound. Overall a very good copy. .

Edmonton: Hurtig 1968. (Cloth) 329pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Folding double frontispiece of Kane, illustrations. Laid in ephemera. Tasteful bookplate to insie cover. Reprint of the 1859 edition with an introduction by J.G. MacGregor. Peel(3) 253..

Edmonton: M. G. Hurtig. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. A lovely clean, hardly opened copy with a similar dust wrapper.; 8vo; 329. pages .

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contemporary tan half-calf with gilt spine, raised bands, and gilt red title label, over dark blue pebbled cloth. Marbled edges and endpapers. Some light handling and scuffing, and some minor professional restoration to covers. Lacks half-title page. Erasure to centre of title-page, thinning paper; foxing to folding map, with offsetting to facing leaf. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Folding map, plus eight chromolithograph plates (all with guard-sheets), as called for, and 13 woodcuts in-text. ii[blank]xviii,455+1[blank]+8[appendix]pp..

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. xvii,(1),455,(6) pp. Octavo. Original burnt ochre stamped cloth with gilt titles on spine. Original coated endpapers with advertising. Book plate on front free endpaper. Eight colour lithographed plates (including frontispiece) complete with tissue guards, woodcut illustrations in text, and folding map (partly coloured with route indicated in red). A very clean copy with the original plate tissues and without the usual foxing on the plates. Peel 253; TPL 2911; Wagner-Camp 332:1. Daily journal of Kane's three years travelling across the continent, studying and painting Indians as he went. Inspired by George Catlin, who he met in Europe, Kane left in June 1845 and spent the first season chiefly among the Ojibway around Lake Huron and Michigan. The following season he made his way via the Red River Settlement and the valley of the Saskatchewan to Fort Edmonton where he spent the winter of 1847-48, before continuing on to Puget Sound,… Read More