[Elting, Victor]:

$2,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

A CANADIAN EXPEDITION. First edition, privately printed. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "Merry Christmas from Victor, 1934." Victor Elting and his friend McPherson left Chicago July 29, 1933 and arrived at a station in Northern Canada called Ombabika in the Thunder Bay District on the 31st. Elting ends his work with these words:"As we travelled back to Toronto we talked it all over. We had travelled more than three hundred miles in the wilderness and had visited an old civilization. We had emerged with a better sense of values and a better philosophy of life. We were in bounding health. We had taken certain physical risks but we had rejoiced in them. If we had taken counsel of our fears of accident or sickness we would have stayed at home, and we would have missed a great adventure."This copy belonged to Colonel Henry A. Siegel, a U.S. Navy Officer and great collector of sporting books. In his retirement, he set up shop as the "Angler's & Shooter's Bookshelf" to sell off his collection and other related works. Not in Bruns or Heller.

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