COMEAU, Napoleon A.

Life and Sport on the North Shore of the Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf

Item #77918

(CANADA). COMEAU, Napoleon A. Life and Sport on the North Shore of the Lower St. Lawrence and Gulf: Containing Chapters on Salmon Fishing, Trapping, the Folk-Lore of the Montagnais Indians and Tales of Adventure on the Fringe of the Labrador Peninsula. Quebec: Daily Telegraph Printing House, 1909. 1st ed. 440pp. Portrait frontis., plates. Bound in 3/ black morocco, raised spine bands, pictorial gilt compartments (fish, rabbits, fishing gear), green linen pastedowns, green silk book ribbon, T.e.g. Near fine. With the bookplate of George Davis Barron, a very successful mining engineer. Barron notes the provenance on the front free endpaper: "Presented in August 1909 to George D. Barron, Rye, N.Y., by his friend John Bishop Putnam and specially bound by G.D.B. in January of 1918." Laid in are two typed carbon letters signed from Barron about this copy.

Price: $300.00