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The Sun of Quebec
by Altsheler, Joseph A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York / London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. New York / London: D. Appleton and Co., 1919. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing, with (1) on last page, in original unchipped jacket. Very clean unfaded brown cloth boards with bright gold stamped lettering on cover and spine, clean paste-on illustration on cover which is unchipped but has two tiny surface abrasions (each about the size of a grain of rice). Two corner tips have slight bumping. No fraying or wear to cloth. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Four color plate illustrations (including frontispiece) by Charles L. Wrenn. 334 pgs. Clean dustjacket with price on spine (1.50 net), no tears slight wear to one corner. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A story of the French and Indian War, with interesting historical descriptions of Albany in 1759, life on a slave trader, a battle at sea between a sloop of war and a pirate ship and lots of woods lore. With the fall of Quebec, an adventurous young American, Robert Lennox, solves the mystery of his life..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018661
- Title
- The Sun of Quebec
- Author
- Altsheler, Joseph A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York / London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Keywords
- HISTORICAL NOVEL QUEBEC CANADA JOSEPH ALTSHELER FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR NEW YORK, OLD DUST JACKETS 1900S
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