Butter Down the Well. Reflections of a Canadian Childhood
by Collins Robert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
-
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1980 A nice tight little book, previous owner's signature at top of ffep, the book is dedicated to the previous owner on the half title page, otherwise the book is unmarked.. Mottled brown boards with black title on spine, minor shelfwear bumping to spine ends. DJ has chipping to edges and minor splits to spine ends. Very top of the spine has a small piece missing but the jacket is intact and is not price clipped.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Westside Stories
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 903243
- Title
- Butter Down the Well. Reflections of a Canadian Childhood
- Author
- Collins Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Western Producer Prairie Books
- Place of Publication
- Saskatoon
- Date Published
- 1980
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Saskatchewan Canada Prairies History Biographical
Terms of Sale
Westside Stories
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. Extra shipping required on heavier books.
About the Seller
Westside Stories
Biblio member since 2015
Hamilton, Ontario
About Westside Stories
Used, hard to find, and out of print books. Large fiction and non-fiction sections, Over 25000 books in store.
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Spine
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- Shelfwear
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- Title Page
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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