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A Pocketful of Canada
by Robins, John D. (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Collins. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. ©1946. Hardcover. 434 p. 18 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Tiny white streak to top front edge. Spine title gilt has dulled. Gift inscription dated 1953 on the front free endpaper. Otherwise, the inside pages are clean and unmarked, with some toning. Dust jacket has heavy edge wear, including tears, chips, and creases. Shelf rubbed with light scratches. Stains on the reverse side. Not price clipped. An anthology of work of over one hundred and fifty authors, all of which deal with Canada in some way. Includes extracts from longer works, poems, etc. There is section of black and white photographs of Canadian scenes, art, buildings, etc. Illustrated throughout and on endpapers with woodcuts by Laurence Hyde. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5219
- Title
- A Pocketful of Canada
- Author
- Robins, John D. (Editor)
- Illustrator
- Laurence Hyde
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- ©1946
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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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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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....