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The Nearing North
by Freeman, Lewis R
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. xii,385 pp. Octavo Original blue cloth. Gilt title on front board and spine. Text block with slight foxing on the edges. Original printed dust wrapper which is missing a portion of the bottom of the spine and top of the front flap. Chipping and closed tears. A substantially completer wrapper but with the described faults. Frontispiece. 52 illustrations. Internally a clean crisp copy. AB 5258. A journalist's accounts of trips in northern Canada on the Peace River, down the Athabasca, Slave and MacKenzie Rivers, from Edmonton down the Saskatchewan and Nelson to Hudson Bay, the Hudson Bay Railroad and the HBC Co in the region. The author has inscribed the front endpaper with a great inscription to George Evans talking about a cross country bike ride. Freeman inscribed the book at the Explorer's Club in New York in 1934. 1928
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144686
- Title
- The Nearing North
- Author
- Freeman, Lewis R
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Hudson's Bay Company|Arctic|Sub-Arctic|Travel and Exploratioin|W. Americana|W. Canada
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Aquila Books
Biblio member since 2010
Calgary, Alberta
About Aquila Books
Aquila Books specializes in books dealing with Polar Exploration, Western Canadiana, Mountaineering, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Early Voyages as well as many other areas. We also deal in antique maps and prints, historic photos, autograph letters, postcards, antique scientific instruments and antique bookcases. Please contact us if you have any questions.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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....
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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