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Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Green cloth covered boards with gilt embossed lettering. Maps on endpapers. Light edgewear to boards. Small booksellers sticker on front pastedown endpaper. No publication date indicated-early edition. Frontis and five other full page illustrations. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 380 pp.

Pages are clean and unmarked. A small corner of front free end paper has been torn away. Cover corners and edges are unmarred. Binding is tight.

Toronto: Musson, n.d. [revised and corrected edition of the 1877 classic]. Fine cloth, in chipped dustwrapper. Map endpapers and frontispiece plus interior plates all by C. W. Jeffreys. Inspired by Sir Walter Scott and very thrilling; apart from poems and pamphlets, this is Kirby's only major work. He had a serious intent, this being the product of years of historical research, and a criticism of France's neglect of Canada, and seizure by the British 1759-60. "Apart from its political bias, the work has vivid scenes" [Sutherland, Victorian Fiction].

No date c. 1920. Front hinge held in by tape.

Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. Original gilt green cloth hardcovers. Illustrated map endpapers. Light bumping to corners. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in moderately worn, chipped and rubbed unclipped ($2.00 price) dust jacket (now in archival mylar sleeve). Very neat--an admirable copy of the edition published c. 1920s. All plates present, as called for. vi, 580pp.

Rough cut page edges on bottom and side but not top. Map of old City of Quebec on front and back end papers.Black and white illustrations. Very short introduction by T.G. Marquis.

Not ex-lib. Mass market paperback in orange and yellow series-design wraps. xi + 320pp. + note on author, series list. VG-. Surface loss along hinges with touch of scraping to md front wrap above title; 2 1/2" crease lower corner rear wrap; shallow crease above lower front edge near corner; central colors clean and bright. Binding strong and square. Pages clean and unmarked. Of special interest to period NCL collectors.

580 pages plus map on end apers Undated fiction circa 1900 Half leather binding which has been very well rebacked page end golded book in vg to near fine condition