Toronto: The Musson Book Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1900. Later Printing. Hardcover. Green cloth boards show some shelf wear, gift inscription on FFEP. Gilt stamped titles on spine quite faded. A light lean. ; A tight solid book, green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles and design. Undated but appears to be circa 1900. The book was originally published in 1877. ; B&W Illustrations; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 580 pages; "It draws upon the historical background of the city of Quebec for its characters, and tells its story through two intertwining plotlines. The first is of the lady Angélique de Méloizes, Madame de Péan, while the second is of Coronel Pierre Philibert, the son of a prosperous merchant." .

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Bookseller: Ainsworth Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19038
Title: The Golden Dog A Romance of Old Quebec
Author: Kirby, William
Illustrator: Decorative Endpapers
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Edition: Later Printing
Publisher: The Musson Book Company
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1900
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Historical;

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Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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....
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...