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Dale of the Mounted in Newfoundland
by Holliday, Joe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Thomas Allen Limited. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. ©1955. Hardcover. 160 p. 21 cm. Copyright date only. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Minor rubbing to edges. Top edge of text block has some foxing. Endpapers have a bit of foxing. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has edgewear, including tiny tears and some creases. A little crackling to rear panel. Spine is slightly sunned. Reverse side and flaps are foxed. Rear flap has bottom corner creases. Number 5 in a series of books featuring Constable Dale Thompson of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in which he gets his first glimpse of Newfoundland and a trek through the province to solve the mystery of a dead Portuguese seaman and the disapperance of a giant indigenous man. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6724
- Title
- Dale of the Mounted in Newfoundland
- Author
- Holliday, Joe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Publisher
- Thomas Allen Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- ©1955
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Series;
Terms of Sale
Homeward Bound Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
Biblio member since 2011
Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- 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....
- 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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