Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France
by Parker, Gilbert; [and] Claude G. Bryan
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 486 pages, indexed. Hardcover in red cloth with gilt lettering and designs on front cover and spine. Binding is quite worn, has damping and spotting, as well as smudges. Ring mark on front board. Spine is toned with the gilt dulled. Top edge of text block is gilt. Prior owner's name on front flyleaf. Inner hinges are cracked. Endpapers show damping at upper edges. This is reflected on some pages. Text is toned, with occasional foxing. Illustrations throughout.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 044865
- Title
- Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France
- Author
- Parker, Gilbert; [and] Claude G. Bryan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 3.10 lbs
- Keywords
- 1904; Gilbert Parker; Claude G Bryan; French Quebec; Canada; French Canadian; History; Travel.
- Bookseller catalogs
- World History;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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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