Down North on the Labrador
by Grenfell, Wilfred T
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- Very Good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York, Chicago, Toronto: Fleming H Revell Company, 1911. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 229 + 2 pages adspp. Octavo. Light green/gray cloth covered boards with black lettering on spine and black lettering and decoration on front cover. Indent in back board. Slight bumping to ends of spine. Clean, tight text block with 12 B/W plates. In dust jacket, not price clipped. Slight wear and chipping to edges of jacket with 2 inch by 1 inch chip to top of jacket near spine at front. A nice copy, rare in jacket. very good Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (28 February 1865 Ñ 9 October 1940) was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador. Beginning with Vikings of To-day (1895), he published between 1905 and 1938 a succession of books about Labrador, which was at the time a British colony. 1911
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 134509
- Title
- Down North on the Labrador
- Author
- Grenfell, Wilfred T
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Fleming H Revell Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, Chicago, Toronto
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Arctic|British Colony|Canadian North|Early Canadiana|Exploration|Labrador|Newfoundland and Labrador|Travel|Travel and Exploratioin
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About Aquila Books
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
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- Text Block
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
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