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Captured By the Mohawks and Other Adventures of Radisson
by North, Sterling
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/No Jacket
- Seller
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Newton, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dell Yearling, 1967. This book was a 12mo size trade paperback that has been rebound as a hardcover for library use. It is a unique binding: pale orange cloth with the original illustrated cover on front and white titles on the spine; 181 pages plus index with some black and white illustrations, some full page. This Young Adult Historical Fiction novel is based on the diaries of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a French Canadian teenager who was captured by Native Canadians in 1652. Radisson, for whom the hotel chain is named, became a trapper, fur trader and explorer. Ex-library with typical treatments. The illustration on front cover is rubbed, the page numbers on pages 24 and 25 are circled in ink, there is an ink mark on page 53, a pencil scribble in the margin of page 92, small spots near the margin of pages 95-96 and soil in the margins of pages 102, 116-117 and several creased page corners. . Pictorial Cover. Acceptable/No Jacket. Illus. by Mays, Victor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Reviews
On Nov 6 2004, H. M. Smith (used books) said:
There in the tall grass lay the bodies of his two hunting companions--scalped and murdered by the Mohawks. Now sixteen-year-old Pierre Radisson realized that he too might be facing a similar fate.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charity Bookstall
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007009
- Title
- Captured By the Mohawks and Other Adventures of Radisson
- Author
- North, Sterling
- Illustrator
- Mays, Victor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Dell Yearling
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Historical Fiction; Fiction; Young Adult; Childrens; Juvenile; Illustrated; Library Rebound;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Young Adult; Childrens Non-Fiction;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Trade Paperback
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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