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Knight of the Snows; The Story of Wilfred Grenfell
by Martin, R. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0718808819
- ISBN 13
- 9780718808815
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Lutterworth Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0718808819 . 94 p. 19 cm. Sound and square binding in paper-covered boards. Minor wear to the corners and edges. Text block edges lightly foxed. Small stain on bottom edge of preliminary pages. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Dustwrapper has some edge wear, more so to the spine ends and corners. Tiny tear along spine fold. Flap edges rubbed. Rear panel lightly soiled. Not price clipped. A children's biography of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador in the early part of the 20th century. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1465
- Title
- Knight of the Snows; The Story of Wilfred Grenfell
- Author
- Martin, R. G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0718808819
- ISBN 13
- 9780718808815
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- 0718808819
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children''s - Non-Fiction; Children's - Non-fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
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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...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
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