Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subject and with Introduction by the Editor (ten volume set)
by Hafen, LeRoy R. (ed.)
First editions
Price: $2,500.00
- Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 11269
- Format: Hardcover
- Edition: First editions
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Arthur H. Clark Company
- Place: Glendale, CA
- Date published: 1965
Book Description
Glendale, CA Arthur H. Clark Company 1965 Hardcover First editions Ten Volume Set. 397, 401, 411, 397, 401, 407, 392, 394, 420, 359 pp. Octavos [24.5 cm] Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles on all backstrips. Includes the index and bibliography volume (10). Illustrated with photographs. All volumes are fine in like original brown shipping jackets. Includes two copies of the prospectus for this set laid in. This set was Dr. Hafen's final major work on the west. Hafen had assembled a vast collection of source material, and with the help of a cast of scholars and history buffs, completed this monumental work of every major figure of the fur trade in the West. According to Clark & Brunet: "The account of the fur trade written by Dr. Hafen and included in Volume I provides an excellent background study of the development of the fur trade". This set is highly sought after, and unheard of in this beautiful condition. Clark & Brunet 123.
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