Ranching with Lords and Commons; Or, Twenty Years on the Range. Being a Record of Actual Facts and Conditions Relating to the Cattle Industry of the North-West Territories of Canada; And Comprising the Extraordinary Story of the Formation and Career of a Great Cattle Company

1903, 1st edition. (Leatherbound) Near fine. 293pp. 12mo. Beautifully re-bound in blue quarter leather over matching marbled boards. Illustrated with frontispiece and 16 monochrome plates. Internally remarkably bright and clean, tight in rebind; with only the rarest spot of marginalia in pencil (we were only able to locate one such spot). Two pieces of evidence which may denote this copy as having once been catalogued: number written in ink to verso-title page [S/B / 971.2302 / C], rubberstamp of "7895" on verso p.293. Else free of any institutional stamps or other such markings. This copy INSCRIBED by the author to John Grove: "To / John Grove Esqr. / with the compliments of / the author / John R. Craig / Montreal / September 28th 1903". An additional inscription is written beneath which states that "only twelve copies of this book were issued - it was then withdrawn from circulation," signed "W. B. S. S." A remarkable copy of this important work. Howes C846. Herd 598. Peel(3) 2682, "The story of the Oxley ranch, written by the manager. The author arraigns the general director, Stavely Hill, an English M.P., for his mismanagement of the company." See also Stavely Hill, "From Home to Home". Cover illustration by. …