TRAILL CATHARINE PARR

Lost in the Backwoods - A Tale of the Canadian Forest

London, T. Nelson and Sons. 1886, reprint. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Originally published as ' The Canadian Crusoes', red cloth with gilt and black titling and decoration to upper board and spine, spine faded, soiling to boards, head and tail of spine rubbed and starting to fray, lower joint rubbed with short split, decorative prize plate from the Charteris Bay District School (Banks Peninsula Canterbury), presented in 1890 to William Anderson of standard 4, from his teacher Alice M Shailer, 319pp with 32 engravings. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010555

Catalogue: Fiction Literature & Criticism

Keywords: Victorian, Extra Gilt, Decorative Cloth, Canadian Frontier, Boys Own, Fiction, Adventure Novel, William Anderson Charteris Bay Banks Peninsula Canterbury, Charteris Bay District School

TRAILL, CATHARINE PARR; SCHIEDER, RUPERT - EDITOR

Canadian Crusoes: A Tale of the Rice Lake Plains

Carleton University Press, Canada, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 088629035x. 324 pages. "Catherine Parr Traill was a pioneer settler in the Peterborough-Rice Lake area of Upper Canada. A prolific writer whose works include 'The Backwoods of Canada' and 'Canadian Wild Flowers', she was one of Canada's foremost naturalists." - from back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; CANADIAN LITERATURE HISTORY Rice Lake Pioneers Settlers. Good .

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Book number: 714a4743

Keywords: 088629035x Canadiana Natural

Traill, Catharine Parr

Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Gleanings from Forest, Lake and Plain

Ottawa, Woodburn, 1885. 1st. Original Cloth. First printing. 288 pp. frontis port. with tissue guard, chromolithograph plates with tissue guards, small quarto in original green morocco-grain cloth and gilt decorations, aeg. A complete, original copy with all contents, endpapers and binding present. Both hinges are split, with the contents loose within the covers. However, the binding is in excellent, unfaded condition with only minor wear to tips. Certainly a worthy candidate for repair. "C. W. Spencer with compliments of Publisher" inscribed on the front blank leaf in attractive 19th century calligraphic hand. The inscribeed may have been C. W. Spencer Manager of the Eastern Division of the CPR. Poor.

Inno Dubelaar BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 784093

Catalogue: Canadiana, Old Stuff