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The Scottish Curlers in Canada and U.S.A.; A Record of Their Tour in 1922-23
by Marshall, Major M.H
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable 1924. (Hardcover) 374pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the cover and spine. Photographic frontispiece with tissue guard, maps, illustrations, photographic plates, statistics, appendices. The corners and edges are lightly bumped, there is a previous owner's name on the endpaper dated 1925, and there is a crack in the text block. "It was suggested to me by several members of the Scottish Curling Team, that it would be most interesting to have a full and permanent record of our tour through Canada and the United States inthe winter of 1922-23, and that I, as Honorary Secretary of the Team, should prepare and publish it. I had collected a large number of newspaper cuttings and photographs during our tour, and these, with others kindly supplied later by those gentlemen whose names are given below, have formed the basis on which I have compiled this record" - from the Preface. Book about Scottish Americans & Scottish Canadians. Time Period 1920's. Locale: Nova Scotia--Canada; Quebec--Canada; Toronto--Ontario; United States; Winnipeg--Manitoba. (Sports, Curling, Sports).
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 151464
- Title
- The Scottish Curlers in Canada and U.S.A.; A Record of Their Tour in 1922-23
- Author
- Marshall, Major M.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T. & A. Constable
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Keywords
- Sports, Curling, Sports
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports;
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Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
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- 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...
- Text Block
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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