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CHASING THE CHINOOK
de Grady, Wayne
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0670882437
- ISBN 13
- 9780670882434
- Librería
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Toronto: Viking - The Penguin Group, 1998. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xix) 275 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Subtitled: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture, the Chapters are: Acadia - This Is the Forest Primeval; Bacteriophage - Of Things Visible and Invisible; Balm of Gilead - A Tree Grows in Bamagalia; Bloody Caesar - So Set 'Em Up Joe; Bluenose - Sot Down in New York; Caboose - Trainspotting in Winnipeg; Canada - Here There Are No Maps; Carriole - Jingo Bells, Jingo Bells; Chinook Winds - Chasing the Chinook; Colcannon Night - Bubble and Screech; Common Gallinule - Where Nests the Chicken-foot Coot; Crokinole - Hustling Crokinole; Documentary - Art as Hammer; Dominion - The Kingdom of Canada; Filles du roi - Figures in the First Garden; Garrison Mentality - Across the River and Out of the Bush Garden; Gopher - Rodents of the Lost Ark; Grizzly Bear - Exeunt Pursued by a Gear; Groundhog - Who Are Wiarton Willie; Ice - Water Turned to Bone; Jerusalem Artichoke - The Canada Potato; Joual - Speaking Horse; Kerosene - The Man Who Put the Tiger in Your Tank; Mackinaw - It's a Lumberjacket and It's Okay; Muskrat - The Shop Girl in Her Musquash; Newfoundland Dog - To Make a Mongrel; Pablum - Fodder and Child Reunion; Peking Man - Skulduggery on Chicken Bone Hill; Pogey - Hard Times in the House of Industry; Polygraph - Where the Truth Lies; Potlatch - The Grand Give-away; Puck - The Puck Starts Here; Pullman - Sharp Cars; Sasquatch - Wild Men of the Woods; Skinny - Choosing Up; Ski-Doo - The Monster; Superman - Look Up In the Sky; Tourtiere - Pigeon Pot Pie; Truck System - What You Get; Tuque - Don't Get Your Tuque in a Knot; and Zipper - On Closing..
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Detalles
- Librería
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 228801
- Título
- CHASING THE CHINOOK
- Autor
- Grady, Wayne
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good+
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good+
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670882437
- ISBN 13
- 9780670882434
- Editorial
- Viking - The Penguin Group
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- canadian author; culture; oil; mining; forestry; logging; canadiana;
- Catálogos del vendedor
- History - Canada;
Términos de venta
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Sobre el vendedor
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Miembro de Biblio desde 2004
Burlington, Ontario
Sobre W. Fraser Sandercombe
We are primarily an Internet-only bookstore, selling on-line for over twenty-three years; our shop can, however, be visited by appointment through an e-mail. We specialize in First Editions and collectible books (and usually have around 500 signed editions in stock at any given moment) ranging through most of the genres: Fantasy; Horror; Science Fiction; Mysteries; and a good selection of Literature; Historical Adventure; History; Outdoors; True Crime; and Assorted Non-fiction. We stock roughly 9000 books and add to our catalogues regularly.
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- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
