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The Road to Kip's Cove
by Cook, Lyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto: Macmillan. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. Second Printing. Hardcover. 222 p. 21 cm. Sound and square binding in orange, cloth-covered boards. Faint water mark on top fore-corner of upper board. Light wear to the corners. A couple of tiny dings to the bottom edges. Text block edges lightly soiled. Previous owner's name on the half title page. Otherwise, the inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dust jacket has wear to the edges, heaviest at the spine ends, and including some small closed tears, chips, and creases. The fold edges are rubbed. Rear white panel has some soil. Not price clipped ($2.95). The story of a Kip, a boy whose family buys an old school house on the Bay of Quinte and how he then meets a boy named Dan and takes a canoe trip down the Trent Canal from Lakefield to Trenton. Map illustrated endpapers showing local towns on the Trent Canal system and illustrations of buildings and features. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6578
- Title
- The Road to Kip's Cove
- Author
- Cook, Lyn
- Illustrator
- William Wheeler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1962
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Canadian;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
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.
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
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