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The Story of The Migration of Skiving
by Wilson, John Francis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good /Good
- Seller
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edinburgh, Midlothian, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Toronto: The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited, 1962. Hardcover. Very good /Good. Wilson, John Francis. Landscape folio, pictorial dust jacket over cloth boards with vignette of the hero on front. Unpaginated and illustrated throughout. Tears and chipping to dust jacket as pictured. Inner book in lovely clean condition. A gently droll look at the life of an unassuming clerk trying to make a living by farming, after moving to start a new life in western Canada. An assuming yet authentic record of farming and prairie life in the late nineteenth century.
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- Bookseller
- Bird's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2505
- Title
- The Story of The Migration of Skiving
- Author
- Wilson, John Francis
- Illustrator
- Wilson, John Francis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The MacMillan Company of Canada Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- illustrated, comic, farming, nineteenth century satire
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Fiction;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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