The Legends of the St. Lawrence Told During a Cruise of the Yatch [sic] Hirondelle
by LeMoine, Sir James McPherson
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Quebec City: C.E. Holiwell. Fair. 1898. Hardcover. 203 + ads p. 22 cm. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped titles and design. Both hinges are cracked, but holding. Worn and softened at the corners and spine ends. Spine is darkened. Both boards show soil. Inside pages are heavily toned and fragile. Two leaves have been torn out but are laid in. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3928
- Title
- The Legends of the St. Lawrence Told During a Cruise of the Yatch [sic] Hirondelle
- Author
- LeMoine, Sir James McPherson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- C.E. Holiwell
- Place of Publication
- Quebec City
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Folk Tales;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...