SILVERSTEIN, Theodore. Edited by John C. Jacobs. Foreword by Winthrop Wetherbee. [Editor’s presentation copy]

Literate Laughter. Critical Essays in Medieval Narrative and Poetry.

Peter Lang, 1974. 8vo., pp.246, paperback; from the library of Derek Pearsall, with editor’s presentation inscription to half title,

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Book number: 37988

Catalogue: LITERATURE

Winthrop, Theodore

The Canoe and the Saddle: Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests and Isthmiana

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in original publisher's brown cloth over boards, blind-stamped illustration to front cover, gilt lettering to spine, rubbed. Welch, Bigelow & Co. stereotyped this copy for the publisher. Ink-blotch to bottom edge, bumping to, fraying of spine head and foot. From the personal library of a Civil War soldier, Mr. E.W. Rogers, 1st Lieutenant of the 19th N.Y. Battery, having "arrived from home" on December 26th, 1862. Title page says 1863, copyright page says 1862. 375 pp. plus 16 pp. of publisher's advertisements. This is Winthrop's account of his travels in Oregon and Washington in 1853, during which he spent much time among the Native American Indians of the Northwest, and he includes a partial vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon. He then travels to the isthmus of Panama and provides an account of his crossing there, quite perilous.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Winthrop, Theodore

The Canoe and the Saddle; Adventures Among the Northwestern Rivers and Forests / and Isthmiana by Theodore Winthrop

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1863. 5th edition. Hardcover. pp. 375. 8vo. Newer brown cloth spine with burgundy spine label; over origibnal cloth boards. Faint smoky odour, light shelfwear, pencilled name to first blank page, title page a bit chipped but stable; very good-. With"A Partial Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon" at page 299-302. .

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Book number: 082592

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Chinook;