Edited John Garvin (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This book is bound in brown boards with faded gilt lettering on the spine and front cover. There is very light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. There is foxing inside the covers and on the end papers. The text is clean, bright and unmarked.…

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original rich burgundy cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo 9½'' x 6¼'' 536 pp. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Each group of poems is preceded by a portrait of the author, a biographical sketch, and a critic. Near Fine condition book, in near Very Good condition dust wrapper with age fading to the spine, shallow rubs to the corners and spine tips. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. CANADA (History & Culture). …

1925. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 412pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography. The endpapers are toned, edges are speckled brown, and there is a previous owner's label on the front endpaper. "The Canadian West came late into favour with the settler. The travels of the early fur traders amde the prairies known as the land of the Indian and the buffalo. Alexander Henry was the first, and Sir William Butler the last of those to whom 'The Great Lone Land' was the land of romance and of adventure, but not of settlement" - from the introduction. Biography of Sandford Fleming. Book about Sandford Fleming. Annotated by William L. Grant. Edited by John W. Garvin. Illustrations by Dorothy Stevens. Introduction by William L. Grant. (Western Canada, Exploration--Western Canada, Voyages and Travels--Western Canada).…