The Desperate People; With woodcuts by Rosemary Kilbourn
by Mowat, Farley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xii, 305. 8vo. Light shelfwear, owner's name to first blank page and ink gift note to half title; very good in good- edgeworn dustjacket showing chipping and creasing to extremities.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 079311
- Title
- The Desperate People; With woodcuts by Rosemary Kilbourn
- Author
- Mowat, Farley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Canadian History; Arctic; Canadiana; Polar
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...