The Golden Dog
Kirby, William
- Publisher: The Musson Book Company, Ltd.
- Date published: 1925
- Format: Hardcover
Toronto: The Musson Book Company, Ltd., 1925. Later Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. Clean hardcover book in unclipped dust jacket. Clean green cloth boards with stamped gold lettering and small gold design on cover and spine. No fraying or fading. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean map-illustrated endpapers; previous owner name neatly penned on back side of frontispiece illustration. Illustrated by C. W. Jefferys. 580 pages. Clean illustrated dust jacket is not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), has some edge/corner wear wear and short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Story begins in 1748 when Canada was still French. The scene is laid in the historic city of Quebec, and it pictures with all the glowing romance of the 18th century the life, the haunts, the secrets of that high-built wonder city in a thrilling story of the days of New France. First published in 1877, The Golden Dog led the way in Canadian historical romance and opened the eyes of later Canadian novelists to the wealth of material that lay in the unknown and almost forgotten Canadian past.
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