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Emily of New Moon
by Montgomery, L. M
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good. ©1925. Reprint. Hardcover. 351 p. 20.5 cm. Copyright date only. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards, with silver stamped C in box on upper board. Upper fore-corner of lower board is lightly bumped. A little wear to the spine ends. 2" faint scratch on upper board. Text block edges lightly soiled and foxed. Bookplate without any ownership information has been pasted to the front free endpaper. Otherwise, the inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has edge and corner wear, including some tiny chips, creases, and tears. The rear panel has pink offset staining but still completely legible. Rubbed along folds. A Cavendish library printing of the first of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Emily trilogy. Dustjacket art by Stanley Turner. .
Synopsis
Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6668
- Title
- Emily of New Moon
- Author
- Montgomery, L. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- ©1925
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Classics;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
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
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
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