Drummer Boy for Montcalm
by Hays, Wilma Pitchford
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada. Good in Good dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. 191 p. 20.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards. Upper board has some mottling from being damp at one time. Rub wear to the board and spine edges. The top edge of the text block has some foxing. Previous owner's name is markered out on the front free endpaper. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket has soil to the panels, moreso the front, and edge wear which includes creases, chips,and tears. The spine is darkened. The story of Peter Demo a twelve year old stowaway on a French sailing ship, who participates as a drummer boy at the battle at the Plains of Abraham. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6622
- Title
- Drummer Boy for Montcalm
- Author
- Hays, Wilma Pitchford
- Illustrator
- Alan Moyler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- Macmillan of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's - Historical Fiction;
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Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
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- 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....
- Jacket
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- 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...
- 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....