PLAIN TALES OF THE NORTH

MALLET, Captain Thierry

Edité par Privately Printed for Revillon Frères, Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street, New York, 1925

Original pale blue paper-covered boards with light grey cloth spine, front panel lettered in blue, pale blue endpapers. 8°, 136 pp., fine small black & white illustrations in the text throughout. Printed on fine deckle-edged paper by the Garamond Press, Baltimore. Small name in pencil on first blank leaf, a very good attractive copy. Revillon Frères was a French fur and luxury goods company founded in Paris in 1723. Their New York branch opened in 1878, they also had branches in London and Montreal. In 1903 the company decided to set up a network of fur trading posts in northern Canada to compete with the Hudson's Bay Company. By 1909 Revillon Frères had 48 trading post stores in its Eastern Arctic Division while the Hudson's Bay Company had 52. Captain Mallet was a fur buyer for Revillon Frères, he travelled in the far north procuring furs and concurrently documenting life in Canada's Far North. His work took him across remote Arctic areas and exposed him to the life and culture of the Indigenous Peoples and the few white men that ventured into these lands. PLAIN TALES OF THE NORTH is a collection of these tales. N° de réf. du vendeur 314437

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Titre : PLAIN TALES OF THE NORTH
Éditeur : Privately Printed for Revillon Frères, Fifth Avenue at 53rd Street, New York
Date d'édition : 1925
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Edition : First Edition (& 1st printing).