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The Crossing
by Winston Churchill
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
Item Price
£12.95£11.01
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
First edition hardcover, published by Macmillan, 1904. The best selling novel of the year. Historical fiction, the adventures of David Ritchie, pioneer of the frontier in Kentucky of the late 18th century. with illustrations by Sydney Adamson and Lilian Bayliss. 598 pages, 5-1/2" X 7-3/4". Red cloth covered cover boards, gilt top-edge. No dust jacket. Some light edge rubbing wear to the cover, at the head and heel of the spine and tips of the corners. Corners are just slightly bumped in. All lettering on the spine and front cover is entirely legible and crisp. Former owner's name written on the first flyleaf page. No further writing on the text besides that name. Some dots of age tanning-foxing to the edges of the text. Page 128 has a 1/2" closed tear at the top edge. Binding is tight, all text pages are tightly bound. gilt top-edge is still fairly bright. Not a library discard copy. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
Synopsis
This book has been named "The Crossing" because I have tried to express in it the beginnings of that great movement across the mountains which swept resistless over the Continent until at last it saw the Pacific itself. The Crossing was the first instinctive reaching out of an infant nation which was one day to become a giant. No annals in the world's history are more wonderful than the story of the conquest of Kentucky and Tennessee by the pioneers...Winston ChurchillPlease Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
Reviews
On Dec 17 2010, Antiguos said:
In Winston Churchill's words "Man Proposes but God Disposes." Favorite chapter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23-02236
- Title
- The Crossing
- Author
- Winston Churchill
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Date Published
- 1904
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Hopkins Books
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Nashua, New Hampshire
About Hopkins Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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