Simpson George Rich (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. About 60 poets, each with about 1 - 4 poems (12 by David Ignatow). Includes Wallace Stevens short play "Bowl, Cat and Broomstick" with a lengthy introductory note by A.W. Litz; and a conversation with Marianne Moore. Book covers are lightly soiled with age, edges and folds along spine are a bit worn and vertical crease along spine. Interior pages are clean, undamaged. 267 pages. …

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: Very Good. First Edition. Number 485 of a limited edition. March 1, 1829 Continued and completed March 24 and June 5, 1829. Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt titling and HBC coat of arms on spine, top edge gilt. Light wear, spine faded. 277 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 277 pp. with index, and appendix including supplementary documents related to the China Trade and the American boundary. Navy cloth binding is sunned but otherwise in excellent condition. Oversized book may require additional shipping.

Condition: Very good. lii, 277, xv pp. Octavo in original red cloth. Crested copy. Gilt top edge, others uncut. Mild staining on the rear board and spine. Includes charts, appendixes, index, list of members and subscribing libraries included. Copy #363 of 550 limited copies for the Champlain Society. Very good copy. Governor Simpson's observations from Hudson Bay to the Pacific in 1828; three dispatches of 1829 from the Athabasca Department, Thompson River District and the Snake River are printed in this copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp lix, 498, four maps in pocket at the rear. Original publishers blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine with top edge gilt. Slight surface wear, inner hinge slightly cracked but very sound, overall sound, very good.…

Condition: very good. limited edition. lii,277,xpp. Octavo with blue cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing to ends of spine and corners. Limited edition numbered 18166. very good The Hudson's Bay Company governor's account of his second journey of inspection from Hudson Bay to the Pacific. Simpson was governor during the height of the Company's power, and was known for his attention to detail. Due to his administrative skills many consider his work to be a precondition for the confederation of Western and Eastern Canada.…

Condition: very good. limited edition. lii,277,xpp. Octavo with blue cloth boards and gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge of textblock, untrimmed pages. Boards bowed. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. very good The Hudson's Bay Company governor's account of his second journey of inspection from Hudson Bay to the Pacific. Simpson was governor during the height of the Company's power, and was known for his attention to detail. Due to his administrative skills many consider his work to be a precondition for the confederation of Western and Eastern Canada.…

1938, a numbered copy from a limited edition. (Hardcover) Very good. lix, 498pp. Blue cloth with the HBC crest on the spine. Frontispiece, appendices, index, lacking the 4 maps in rear pocket. The inner hinges are cracked and some spotting on the front cover. Journals of George Simpson. Edited by E.E. Rich. Introduction by Chester Martin. Locale: ; Alberta; Athabasca; Canadian North-West; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. Series: Hudson's Bay Record Society 1. (Western Canada, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company).…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. . 497 pages. Number 1014 of a Limited Edition. Includes maps in rear pocket. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided *.