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An Arctic Man: Sixty-five Years in Canada's North
by Lyall, Ernie
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0887801064
- ISBN 13
- 9780887801068
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada: Formac Publishing Company, Limited, 1983. Miniscule rubbing or shelfwear, light bump to one wrap corner. Spine straight and uncreased. Interior tight and unmarked, almost crisp. The autobiography of a man who settled in Fort Ross in the Arctic Islands and married an Inuit woman, becoming part of her extended family. He wrote the book because he "finally got fed up with all the baloney in so many books written about the north.". First. Mass Market Paperback. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- First Used Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001040
- Title
- An Arctic Man: Sixty-five Years in Canada's North
- Author
- Lyall, Ernie
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 0887801064
- ISBN 13
- 9780887801068
- Publisher
- Formac Publishing Company, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- CANADA BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography;
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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