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Across Canada; Stories of Canadian Children (Signed)
by Bice, Clare
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: The Macmillan Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. 121 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. A little rub wear to the bottom edges. Top edge of text block slightly dusty and all edges have light toning. Booksellers label on front endpaper. Pencil notation on recto of the front free endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dustjacket has wear to the edges and spine ends, with some small chips and tiny tears. The spine is darkened. A few tiny soil spots. Not price clipped. ($2.75) Eight stories of children from across Canada, written and illustrated by Clare Bice. One full page colour illustration per story, with additional black and white in-text illustrations. This book is signed and dated (1949) by Bice on the back of the front free endpaper. There is an additional pencil note on the same page about a friendship Bice had with Eric Moorhouse, who was once Chair of the London Public Library Board which shared a building with the London Art Gallery which Bice was curator. .
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- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6775
- Title
- Across Canada; Stories of Canadian Children (Signed)
- Author
- Bice, Clare
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1949
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Canadian;
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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.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Good+
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- Jacket
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