Away in the Wilderness; or, Life Among the Red Indians and Fur-Traders of North America
by BALLANTYNE, R.M. [Robert Michael]
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1873. Reprint (originally London: 1863). 12mo; publisher's embossed cloth, titled in gilt on spine; 144pp; frontispiece and three unnumbered leaves of wood-engraved plates. Wear at head and heel of spine; bottom corner of front board rubbed through; just Very Good.
An early entry in the Scottish author's enormous ouevre of stories for boys, many (like this one) based loosely on his own experiences in the far Northwest with the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1840s.
An early entry in the Scottish author's enormous ouevre of stories for boys, many (like this one) based loosely on his own experiences in the far Northwest with the Hudson's Bay Company in the 1840s.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60954
- Title
- Away in the Wilderness; or, Life Among the Red Indians and Fur-Traders of North America
- Author
- BALLANTYNE, R.M. [Robert Michael]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Porter & Coates
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1873
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature Before 1900;
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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...