1913 RARE Harper First Edition ISOBEL Curwood Mounted Police Kazan Hardcover VG

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1913 RARE Harper First Edition ISOBEL Curwood Mounted Police Kazan Hardcover VG:
$99.50

For sale is this story of action and adventure in the Canadian Far North with Mounted Police and the loyal Sled Dog-Kazan. This book in Very Good in a RARE hard to find condition.Title: ISOBEL: A Romance of the Northern TrailWritten by James Oliver CurwoodPublished by Harper & Brothers, New York copyright 1913. First edition with colophon on the title page and with the same date 1913 on the title page-see photo; first printing with no additional printings listed. Hardcover book / no dust jacket. The book is bound in blue cloth covered boards with stamped vase design on the front cover; gold gilt titles stamped on the front and the spine. The book size is 5.25 by 7.5 inches, 281 pages; illustrated with color frontispiece with a tissue protective cover.‘Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mounted, with his only partner Pelliter are the only official representatives in the lonely and desolate reaches of Point Fullerton, hundreds of miles from the next nearest outpost, and from any civilization.”See my photos for a more detailed description of this book.
Condition: The book is in VERY GOOD condition-see photos. The books covers are bright and clean with edge wear and rubbing to the front cover. The front titles are bright, the spine titles are faded. The binding is square and tight and the hinges are firm with no cracks. The inside text pages are clean and bright; they are supple and lay flat. The fronts illustration is pristine. There are no names, markings, tears or folds. This is a tight clean and well cared for copy of a collectable book. RARE hard to find!
A First Edition volume of a Curwood Canadian Northwest Mountie story“In Curwood, the famous Mounties had possibly their first and most enthusiastic champion and author of their adventures of fiction and legend. The image of the lone policeman out in the Canadian wilderness enduring every force nature could hurl against him and yet still resolutely and infallibly getting his man was never more powerful than in the pages of Curwoods stories.”
“His inspiration came from a time before The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, when the force was titled, The North West Mounted Police and of course this meant the adventures are set in an earlier era-the Canada of the 19th century-where the untamed land was sparsely populated with untamed men and the tribes of indigenous Indians that might yet be hostile. These men were policemen, trappers, trackers, rangers, part lawman, part soldier-often imagined in their distinctive scarlet uniform-in fact the very stuff which has evoked true adventure in the minds of those aged from 8 to 80!”