WITH WOLFE IN CANADA: or, The Winning of a Continent
by Henty, G.A.; illus by Gordon Browne
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair-Good, front board rubbed, light wear to spine ends & corners, binding shaken but intact.
- Seller
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Nevada City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Worthington Co, 1890. First Thus.. Hardcover in green-red pictorial cloth boards, pictorial gilt spine, beveled edges, no jacket.. Fair-Good, front board rubbed, light wear to spine ends & corners, binding shaken but intact.. Classic historical novel of the French & Indian War. Although showing its years, this is a clean and still handsome illustrated copy of turn-of-the-century edition.
5-1/4 x 7-1/2, 378 pp, decorative endpapers, full-pg b/w illus.
5-1/4 x 7-1/2, 378 pp, decorative endpapers, full-pg b/w illus.
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- Bookseller
- edburynbooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14040
- Title
- WITH WOLFE IN CANADA: or, The Winning of a Continent
- Author
- Henty, G.A.; illus by Gordon Browne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in green-red pictorial cloth boards, pictorial gilt spine, beveled edges, no jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair-Good, front board rubbed, light wear to spine ends & corners, binding shaken but intact.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Worthington Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- History, Politics, War, Biography
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About the Seller
edburynbooks
Biblio member since 2007
Nevada City, California
About edburynbooks
I sell from my home, where I have about 25,000 books shelved or stored. I am also an author, poet, photographer, taroist, publisher, collector. Selling books online for almost 15 years, including my own titles and rare books from my collection.
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- 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....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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