Carnac's Folly
by Parker, Gilbert (1862-1932)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: J B Lippincott. Good in Good dust jacket. 1922. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth spotted, cocked, tone, light foxing, owner's signature, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket two detached chips at spine tail, edgeworn with tears and chipping, rubbed, worn. Solid hardcover. ; Later romance novel by prolific Canadian author and politician Gilbert Parker. "By a strange piece of folly, Carnac's career is almost wrecked and his love for beautiful Junia Shale brough to naught. ... French Quebec with its vivid humanity and the swirling river with its fighting, striving, heroic lumber men, form a vigorous background to this story of singular interest." First US Edition, First Printing, in Dust Jacket. ; 352 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike's Library (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13949
- Title
- Carnac's Folly
- Author
- Parker, Gilbert (1862-1932)
- Illustrator
- Walter Lauderback
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First American Edition; First Printing
- Publisher
- J B Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1922
- Keywords
- Romance Novel, Lumber Industry - Fiction, Quebec - Fiction
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Mike's Library
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Plymouth, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...