Origin of the Canadian Pacific Railway (The Ryerson Canadian History Readers, Edited by Lorme Pierce)
by Howard Angus Kennedy
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Lewisporte, Newfoundland, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: The Ryerson Press Digest-sized stapled paperback pamphlet, undated (but known to be 1929), 30 pages including two black-and-white photographs; well used ex-library copy, intact and conplete, tight in binding, with many flaws: most of the yellow/orange front panel appears to have been removed from the original cover and then reglued to sturdier red/brown paper, reinforced along the spine and then the whole shebang laminated, spine label, moderate wear to edges, card pocket glued inside front cover, due date slip on facing page, numerous rubber stamps including four in text page margins, pale faded old waterstaining in the bottom margins of all but the first five text pages, all pages otherwise very clean and unmarked. For other very scarce Canadiana, see also our listings for Report of the Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park , and for "Whose Servant I Am" : Speakers of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792 - 1992, and for Queen City Yacht Club, 1889-1989 [Algonquin Island, Toronto].. Soft Cover. Fair.
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- Seller
- Eric James
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 043480
- Title
- Origin of the Canadian Pacific Railway (The Ryerson Canadian History Readers, Edited by Lorme Pierce)
- Author
- Howard Angus Kennedy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- The Ryerson Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Keywords
- LOCAL HISTORY CANADIAN SOCIAL SETTLEMENT PIONEER FRONTIER EPHEMERA RAILROADS RAILWAYS TRAVEL TRANSPORTATION TRAINS NONFICTION POLITICS GOVERNMENT POLITICAL SCIENCE FISCAL FEDERAL PROVINCIAL RELATIONS INTERGOVERNMENTAL TRANSPORTATION TRAINS CANADA HI
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadiana; Transportation; Rare Books;
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Eric James
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- Spine Label
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- Tight
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- Fair
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