The Man from Glengarry : a tale of the Ottawa
by Ralph Connor [Charles William Gordon]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good minus/Without dust jacket
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Fleming H. Revell, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good minus/Without dust jacket. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 473 pages, orange titles on decorative brown cloth, gilt title on spine. A very good (minus) hard cover overall with generally minor shelf wear and rubbing at the corner, front hinge cracked but secure and internal binding solid, paper clean, lightly yellowed, with minor foxing to the fore-edges and small stain to top fore-edge.
Synopsis
Ralph Connor was born Charles William Gordon in Indian Lands, Glengarry County, Canada West (later Ontario) in 1860. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1883 and received his B.D. from Knox College in Toronto in 1887. Three years later he was ordained in Calgary a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and then moved to Banff where he served as missionary to the lumbercamps and mining villages of the area. In 1894 he moved to Winnipeg's Saint Stephen's Church, where he was pastor for the rest of his life. Seeking financial assistance for his missionary work, the Revered Charles William Gordon wrote fictional sketches for the Presbyterian magazine The Westminster. Under the pseudonym of Ralph Connor, he soon became Canada's bestselling author both at home and abroad. His earliest sketches were collected as Black Rock (1898), and this novel, along with his next two novels, The Sky Pilot (1899) and The Man from Glengarry (1901), sold five million copies. Connor's fiction originated in his "outdoor" Christianity. His heroes are often churchmen, among other representatives of established civilization, who minister to the needs of a frontier society. Ralph Connor died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1937. From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60981
- Title
- The Man from Glengarry : a tale of the Ottawa
- Author
- Ralph Connor [Charles William Gordon]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good minus
- Jacket Condition
- Without dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Fleming H. Revell
- Date Published
- 1901
- Keywords
- Fiction
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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