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The Curlew Cried . a Love Story of the Canadian Prairie
by Parsons, Nell W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Albany, Oregon, United States
Item Price
NZ$46.81NZ$42.13
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About This Item
Seattle: Frank McCaffrey Publishers, 1947. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). VG hardcover in Good jacket. 1947. SIGNED/Inscribed by the AUTHOR on the FFEP, "For Celia who knew me when I scarcely knew how to put a word on paper! Nell W. Parsons." Light bumps to bottom corners and spine ends, a clean attractive copy with a bit of yellowing from age. Unclipped jacket, spine panel sunned, head of spine panel torn at folds and curling. Jacket has small chips and tears across all edges and folds, but main panels are solid. 246 pp., a fictitious story set in the author's lovely native Saskatchewan. A signed copy of the author's first book. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall..
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- Bookseller
- Eastburn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L00326
- Title
- The Curlew Cried . a Love Story of the Canadian Prairie
- Author
- Parsons, Nell W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Frank McCaffrey Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 1947
- Keywords
- SASKATCHEWAN CANADA PACIFIC NORTHWEST SEATTLE FICTION NOVELS WASHINGTON
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography/Biography;
Terms of Sale
Eastburn Books
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About the Seller
Eastburn Books
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Albany, Oregon
About Eastburn Books
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- 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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