[HUDSON'S BAY] BALLANTYNE, ROBERT M. Hudson's Bay; or Every-day life in the Wilds of North America, during six years' residence in the territories of the honourable Hudson's Bay Company. Edinburgh: For private circulation ... William Blackwood & Sons, 1848. First edition, first issue of the author's first book. Publisher's green cloth, spine titled in gilt. 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (19 x 12.5 cm); xii, 328 pp., with four plates including pictorial frontispiece, vignettes throughout text. Minute wear, but in all a brilliant copy, with the bookplate of Robert Wilson Redford. A superlative example of Ballantyne's very rare privately published account; it was reissued later in 1848, in essentially the same format, as a trade publication. It presaged a long and successful career for Marryat as a writer of juvenile fiction, including The Coral Island. Ballantyne went to Canada at age sixteen and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company, and the book extensively quotes from the journals he kept during his travels. Quayle 1a; Phillips p.32; Graff 154; Wagner-Camp 144a etc. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[HUDSON'S BAY] BALLANTYNE, ROBERT M. Hudson's Bay; or Every-day life in the Wilds of North America, during six years' residence in the territories of the honourable Hudson's Bay Company. Edinburgh: For private circulation ... William Blackwood & Sons, 1848. First edition, first issue of the author's first book. Publisher's green cloth, spine titled in gilt. 7 1/2 x 4 7/8 inches (19 x 12.5 cm); xii, 328 pp., with four plates including pictorial frontispiece, vignettes throughout text. Minute wear, but in all a brilliant copy, with the bookplate of Robert Wilson Redford. A superlative example of Ballantyne's very rare privately published account; it was reissued later in 1848, in essentially the same format, as a trade publication. It presaged a long and successful career for Marryat as a writer of juvenile fiction, including The Coral Island. Ballantyne went to Canada at age sixteen and spent five years working for the Hudson's Bay Company, and the book extensively quotes from the journals he kept during his travels. Quayle 1a; Phillips p.32; Graff 154; Wagner-Camp 144a etc. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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