Soft Gold: The Fur Trade …, Oregon Historical Society, 1982, Near Fine w/VG DJ

Oregon Historical Society, et al. Soft Gold: The Fur Trade & Cultural Exchange on the Northwest Coast of America (Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, 1982).

English, a Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket, Very Good overall, HC, 4to, 9 1/4" x 9 1/2," 301 pp., including illustrations and Bibliography.

ISBN: 0875951074

Near Fine brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front and spine. Covers are slightly shaken along spine, else clean and intact, binding still strong and holding, sharp tips. Very Good brown paper dust jacket with gilt lettering on front and spine. Dust jacket has a few creases and moderate rubbing, else clean and intact, protected in a paper-backed Mylar sleeve. Pages have light age toning, else pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations, most in black-and-white, a few in color. Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of a show presented by the Oregon Historical Society and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. The exhibition featured the cultural exchanges that happened between Indigenous Peoples and European explorers and fur traders as the result of the fur trade that began in the 1720s on the Northwest Coast of North America.