New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Grey/green cloth with dark green lettering to front board and spine. Light rubbing and bumping to edges of boards in a lightly edge-worn and spine sunned dust jacket. Harcourt Brace edition in a Macmillan dust jacket. Inscribed 'To Sir Augustus M. Nanton with friendship and admiration from Vilhjalmur Stefansson, New York November 17 1922'. Nanton was one of the principal investors and developers of Western Canada and died in 1925 serving as the President of the Dominion Bank. -wikipedia.

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Bookseller: Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 38748
Title: The Northward Course of Empire
Author: Stefansson, Vilhjalmur
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1922

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About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA

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