Faraway Ports: Easy Growth In Reading, Third Reader: Canadian Edition.

John Winston Co., Toronto, Canada., 1950. Copyright Canada 1946-1950 First Edition.. Hardcover. G+/--. 8 H x 6 1/8 W x 3/4 inch. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book Interior VERY GOOD PLUS / Boards Good Plus / Dust Jacket Not Issued Or Missing, possibly not issued as typical of books for young readers. Boards are red cloth, lettering peach on navy on spine, navy on peach on front cover, pictorial cover of a schooner ship. Book spine is straight, square, solid, not sunned, slight bit of shelf soil, top free edge is quite chipped, bottom free edge same plus there is a piece missing out of the bottom spine lower corner going onto back cover lower corner size 1/2 inch W x 3/8 inch H, red cloth of spine is gone and a bit of the lower internal spine shows. Book boards and spine are flat, clean, bright, no rips, one bent corner tip, one bruised corner point with a bit of board showing, and back lower outer corner point is missing with board gone size 3/8 inch along bottom edge and 5/8 inch along side edge and next to this on bottom board edge is a part where the cloth surface is rubbed in size 1/2 inch wide along bottom board and 3/8 inch high, two faint vertical spine creases beside spine, no sunning, one small dent in front bottom board, not much other edge wear, most is as already mentioned on spine and corner tips. Page edges sunned and have a bit of shelf soil and top and bottom edges have one small area each where a child has made small faint marks with a pencil. Inner end papers are bright white with red/white pictorials of an igloo, a Chinese junk ship a south pacific hut, etc. On back of ffep there is a school book issue stamp issued when new and showing no dates out so I believe this book was given as a prize when new. Inside of book is tight, clean, bright, clear, flat. The deer facing page 1 has been carefully outlined in pencil and does not show except for pencil dent on last page of Contents. Top of page 6-7 has a light black mark. Top of page 9-11 has a small crease and page 11 has a bit of light finger soil on side margin. From Page 11 to back of book looks untouched, unread. Small bit of age darkening inside covers at binding and on edges of some pages.  Lots of lovely colour illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. Black/white illustrations also. Fun to see the old cars and other items in the illustrations. Large text for young readers.