Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies
by William T. Hornaday; Illustrated by John M. Phillips
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
E-363. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Charles A Scribners, New York. 1916. Xvii 353 pgs, Illustrated with 70 illustrations and 2 maps. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and black and white pastedown of a goat present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "It will not be many years more ere the most beautiful haunts of Nature are ripped open by improvements, scarified by roads and tourist camps, and everywhere infested by rushing automobiles. . I fear that even 10 years from now there will not remain enough wild animals in the outdoors to salt their pallid flavour, or to interest our pleasure-mad young people." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Last Exit Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67014
- Title
- Camp-Fires in the Canadian Rockies
- Author
- William T. Hornaday; Illustrated by John M. Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Place of Publication
- E-363
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