The Canal Builders; Boys' Adventures in Early Canada
by Bassett, John M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Thomas Allen. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 22 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Boards have mottling. Text block edges are lightly foxed. Gift inscription dated 1964 on front free endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked overall, with one tiny corner crease to bottom of one leaf. Dust jacket has a large sticker pull mark on the front panel. There is wear and some tearing to the upper front flap fold. Both panels and flap edges have some light foxing and soil. A children's book which tells the story of the Welland Canal. Illustrated in pen and ink. Number 1 in The Young Adventurers Series from this publisher. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6714
- Title
- The Canal Builders; Boys' Adventures in Early Canada
- Author
- Bassett, John M
- Illustrator
- Leslie Callan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Thomas Allen
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Canadian;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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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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- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...