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March to Quebec
by Roberts, Kenneth
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1938, 1940. Third Edition. Fine in light green buckram cloth covered boards with a gilt on black title block on the spine and map end sheets. A small octavo measuring 7 3/4 by 5 1/2 inches with light foxing to the hinge areas of the rear paste down due to a reaction with the glues used in binding. In a very good+,unclipped, dust jacket with several short closed tears to the upper edge of the spine area. This is the third edition of the book with the addition of the John Pierce Journal. 722 pages including an index. Following his writing of Arundel, Roberts compiled the journals of the members of Arnold's expedition to attack Quebec through the wilds of what is now the Maine woods north into Canada in the dead of winter. As Roberts uncovered additional material he continued to add those journals and records to later publications of this title.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB32235
- Title
- March to Quebec
- Author
- Roberts, Kenneth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1938, 1940
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
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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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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