Tales of the Mounted
by Brockie, William (Pseudonym of )
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: the Ryerson Press 1949, 1st edition. (hardcover) 182pp. Very good in good dust jacket. 8vo. Dust jacket shows wear at extremities, chipping at corners and head of spine, small 1cm spot of paper loss at foot of rear wrapper. Jacket mylar protected. Serge-red cloth boards; lettering in black to spine. Evidence of water damage to verso of the dust jacket, which has also resulted in white paper transfer to the foot of boards. Else boards are undamaged and the text block remains unaffected. Internally bright, tight, and clean. Pseudonym of . .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spafford Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 118600
- Title
- Tales of the Mounted
- Author
- Brockie, William (Pseudonym of )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- the Ryerson Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Keywords
- RCMP, Canadian Prairies, Memoir, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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About the Seller
Spafford Books
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Regina, Saskatchewan
About Spafford Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.