FOLLOWING THE FRONTIER
by Pocock, Roger
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1903. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 1st edition, October 1903. Very Good. 8vo., 338 pp., plus ads at rear. Bound in publishers blue cloth with decorative gilt spine. Top edges gilt. Tips and edges are rubbed; spine slightly darkened. Front and rear hinges starting with webbing showing; text is clean and unmarked. "His weary father sent him the fare to Winnipeg with the suggestion that he should join the North West Mounted Police, a life he came to love and never forget. He was involved in the Riel Rebellion, where he lost the toes on his right foot due to frostbite. After being invalided out he determined to make a career as a writer. He had achieved some success while in the N.W.M.P., often basing his stories around the colourful characters he had encountered.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31059
- Title
- FOLLOWING THE FRONTIER
- Author
- Pocock, Roger
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- McClure, Phillips & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1903
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Rougemont, North Carolina
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- 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....