Shrieks And Crashes" Being Memories Of Canada's Corps 1917
by Kerr, Wilfred Brenton
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Toronto: The Hunter Rose Co., Limited, 1929. HB. Blue cloth, black lettering on front cover and spine, 12mo, 218 pp. Account of the World War I experiences of the Canadian Army. Kerr (1896-1950) was from Seaforth, Ontario. He enlisted in 1916 and was a signaller with the 11th Battery of the Canadian Field Artillery, serving at Vimy Ridge, Passchendale, and during the final offensives of 1918. After the war, Kerr was educated at Oxford and Toronto, and at the time of this book being published, was Professor of History at the University of Buffalo. This book privately printed by the author in an edition of five hundred copies. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To the Chancellor With Best Wishes. The Author" and dated October 25, 1929. Old price, in pencil, front paste-down only mark in book, binding tight. Covers clean with very light edge wear and slight fading to spine. Book condition VG.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GL6744
- Title
- Shrieks And Crashes" Being Memories Of Canada's Corps 1917
- Author
- Kerr, Wilfred Brenton
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Hunter Rose Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War I;
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
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Ontario, Wisconsin
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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