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Toronto: Prospero. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. Facsimile. Hardcover. 1552671437 . 351 p. 22.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Minor wear to the corner tips. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is shelf rubbed with light wear at the spine ends. A facsimile reprint of the 1836 Charles Knight of this classic account of white pioneer settlement in Upper Canada. .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife Of An Emigrant Officer, Illustrative Of The Domestic Economy Of British America.

Toronto: New Canadian Library; McClelland & Stewart, 2010. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¼ - 9¼" tall. First edition, thus Octavo paperbacks 332 pages illustrated Very Good condition. No inscriptions.

Paperback / softback. New.

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America.

tredition, 2011-11-25. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Limited, Publishers, 50. 377 pages in good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional black and white illustrations throughout. Front inner hinge is torn but intact. Presentation bookplate on the fpdep. Page edges are lightly darkened and smudged. Bound in green cloth with gilt titles. Heavily faded and stained. Worn around the edges. G/- -. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Staples, Owen.

TREDITION CLASSICS. paperback. New. 5x0x7. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London: both books published by L. Hodson & Son, 22, Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn, 1860. 2 volumes in one. 9cm x 14cm, (3-5/8" x 5-5/8"), Backwoods circa 1846 iv,prelims,[1] illust.list, [9]-233pp., [1]blank, 235-242pp.; [Bound with] Oregon 1860, [6]prelims, [7]-237pp., [1]ad.Original soiled blue boards with gilt stamping on type on spine and people in a sleigh on the front cover and gilt page edges. Worn with bumped corners. Backwoods with 12 wood cut illustrations (all called for) plus Niagara Falls from the Ferry engraving at front. Oregon with the frontis image of the Mouth of the Columbia River two maps (full page and folding). Overall, very good condition. The Oregon Territory Consisting of a Brief Description of the Country and its Productions; And of the Habitats and Manners of the Native Indian Tribes. The Oregon Territory, 1860 is the second edition (first was 1846). Contains Illustration at front and map on page 64 and the fold-out on p.102. Inside the paper is clean. Overall condition… Read More

London: Charles Knight & Co. / G. Cox Book. Near Fine. Half-Leather. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Fine but for prev. owner insc., and slightest bumping to extremities. 2 volumes bound together. Backwoods of Canada is "new edition" 1846 with 12 illustrations. 243 pages. Settlers and convicts 1852 ( second edition? ) 435 pages. Half leather over marbled boards, with raised bands. A very attractive copy..

London: M.A. Nattali, 1849; 1846, 1849. Early Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 12 mo. 6.5 cm x 10 cm., Backwoods: pp. viii, 351. Map, plus 21 illustrations (includes a chart/map), tables; Oregon: pp. 78, frontispiece map. [2] publ. adverts. at rear. Bound together in original green blindstamped cloth, gilt decorated spinestrip, all edges gilt. Covers lightly soiled and gently rubbed, spine faded to tan colour, expert repair to cloth at spine ends. Otherwise, a very good copy.

London: M.A. Nattali, 1849; 1846, 1849. Early Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 12 mo. 6.5 cm x 10 cm., Backwoods: pp. viii, 351. Map, plus 21 illustrations (includes a chart/map), tables; Oregon: pp. 78, frontispiece map. [2] publ. adverts. at rear. Bound together in original green blindstamped cloth, gilt decorated spinestrip, all edges gilt. Covers lightly soiled and gently rubbed, spine faded to tan colour, expert repair to cloth at spine ends. Otherwise, a very good copy.

London: Charles Knight, 22 Ludgate Street, 1836. First Edition, Second Issue. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12 mo. Pp. viii, 351 (includes half-title from The Library of Entertaining Knowledge), with 15 full-page illustrations (includes 1 map), 5 text illustrations, 8 tables. Original blind-framed textured cloth, rebacked with matching cloth, new endpapers, corners consolidated. Some mild soiling to the cloth, else a very good, clean, bright copy.The letters describe her month-long voyage to Canada with her husband, and their travels to the "interior" to settle near Peterborough, where Traill lived for over 60 years. (Watters p.352) "The letters, particularly vivid in natural description, give us both a portrait of a persevering, buoyant and resourceful woman adapting to a new life and place, and an encyclopedic cataloguing of the details of her new surroundings. Whether describing Natives, Americans, wildlife, natural scenery, illnesses or Canadian customs, or providing recipes for soft soap,… Read More

London: Charles Knight, 1836. Second Edition. Composed of letters written by the author to her mother and friends in England, the Backwoods includes much useful and interesting information on home-making under pioneer conditions, pioneer recipes for making maple sugar, vinegar, &c. Mrs. Traill, who emigrated to Canada with her husband, a lieutenant in the 21st Fusiliers, also gives an account of her journey and settlement near Rice Lake, Upper Canada, August 1832-May 1835. In his Bookplates of Leslie Victor Smith (1947), William Colgate suggests that among Canadian bookplate artists "probably no one is more widely recognized for the fine quality of his work than Leslie Victor Smith". Lande 2259. TPL 1923. Watters p. 987. 18mo. pp. viii, 351. with half-title. 21 wood-engraved plates & illus. (incl map & portrait). A nice untrimmed copy in later pebbled cloth. engraved bookplate of Frank B. Pidgeon, Omemee, by Leslie Victor Smith, dated 1946. elala5467