Title: The Canoe and the Saddle, or Kalam and Klickatat: To which are now first added His Western Letters and Journals Author: Winthrop, Theodore Place: Tacoma Publisher: John H. Williams Date: 1913 Description: xxvi, 332 pp. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by John H. Williams Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs, drawings, paintings, etc., many in color; sketches in the text; map. (8vo) 24x16 cm (9½x6½"), original vellum-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, armorial emblem on front cover, top edge gilt. Signed by the editor/publisher on the title page. First published in 1863, but both Howes and Tweney note this as the "best edition," and the first publication of the Western letters and journals. Tweney furthermore states that "Winthrop was probably better fitted to portray the West than any other Eastern man who attempted to describe it. As a story of travel among the forests and mountains of the Northwest, it was the first of a long line of books that turned the eyes of the country westward...." (Graff 4715); Howes W584; Smith 11136; Tweney 86. Lot Amendments Condition: Soiling to vellum and cloth, front hinge cracked; very good. Item number: 272518
Title: The Canoe and the Saddle, or Kalam and Klickatat: To which are now first added His Western Letters and Journals Author: Winthrop, Theodore Place: Tacoma Publisher: John H. Williams Date: 1913 Description: xxvi, 332 pp. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by John H. Williams Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs, drawings, paintings, etc., many in color; sketches in the text; map. (8vo) 24x16 cm (9½x6½"), original vellum-backed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, armorial emblem on front cover, top edge gilt. Signed by the editor/publisher on the title page. First published in 1863, but both Howes and Tweney note this as the "best edition," and the first publication of the Western letters and journals. Tweney furthermore states that "Winthrop was probably better fitted to portray the West than any other Eastern man who attempted to describe it. As a story of travel among the forests and mountains of the Northwest, it was the first of a long line of books that turned the eyes of the country westward...." (Graff 4715); Howes W584; Smith 11136; Tweney 86. Lot Amendments Condition: Soiling to vellum and cloth, front hinge cracked; very good. Item number: 272518
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