Merchant Princes (Company of Adventurers) - Hardcover

Merchant Princes, Company of Adventurers Volume III.

1st edition. History of the Hudson Bay Company, Canada's most enduring - and most controversial - business empire. .Pp.xviii/502, many black & white illustrations, maps to endpapers, half-title with signed handwritten dedication "For Sir Eric Faulkner - in Admration and Gratitude", extract from a letter to J.R.Murray in tribute to Sir Eric Faulkner (and sent on to him) stapled to top edge of inner front endpaper. Blue cloth, dustwrapper has chipped tears to top and tail of spine. VG/G+ Plus interesting associated ephemera: Two signed letters from the auther; A selection of news cuttings concerning The Bay; Nine sheets of paper regarding a Luncheon in honour of Sir Winston Churchill - The Grand Seigneur of the Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson Bay. There is a printed copy of the seating plan which includes E.O.Faulkner (Director, Huson's Bay Company) and brief handwritten notes on the other attendees on the other 7 pages, held together with a rusting paper-clip.** "Sir Eric Odin Faulkner, banker, was born on April 21, 1914 in Saint Albans, Hertfordshire. Son of Sir Alfred Edward Faulkner, C.B. C.B.E., and Lady Florence Edith Faulkner. He died 8 August aged 80. Chairman of Lloyds Bank (1969-77), he oversaw its successful international merger leading to the foundation of Lloyds Bank International and the Lloyds Bank Group. Twice president of the British Bankers Association. Previously in a long career he was a Member of the Board for the Hudson's Bay Company from 1950-1970.". Artikel-Nr. 52535

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