THE SETTLER'S DREAM a Pictorial History of the Older Buildings of Prince Edward County
by Cruickshank, Tom (author) & Stokes, Peter John (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Picton, Ontario, Canada: The Corporation of the County of Prince Edward, 1984. Hardcover; square 4to; 454 pages. Brown cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on spine. Some faint whtie spotting on spine, The top board is faded at the head-edge. Clean brown endpapers. The pages are bright and clean. Slight sagging of the text block. In an illustrated jacket with white titles on a brown spine. Bumped/chipped edges. Light shelfwear. Lightly faded edges. VG+/VG. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. Illus. by Cruickshank, Tom.
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- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 222137
- Title
- THE SETTLER'S DREAM a Pictorial History of the Older Buildings of Prince Edward County
- Author
- Cruickshank, Tom (author) & Stokes, Peter John (ed.)
- Illustrator
- Cruickshank, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- The Corporation of the County of Prince Edward
- Place of Publication
- Picton, Ontario, Canada
- Date Published
- 1984
- Bookseller catalogs
- Agriculture;
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- Spine
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- Shelfwear
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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...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- VG+/VG
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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....
- Edges
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