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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.05. Seller Inventory # G0919306314I3N00
Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. Seller Inventory # 353-0919306314-gdd
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. Seller Inventory # 0919306314-2-3
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Very small stain on the rear board, adjacent to the spine. VERY slight spine lean. Else binding very clean. Pages clean. Tiny tear at the bottom edge of the DJ rear panel. Else DJ clean. ; WHH18A; 238 pages. Seller Inventory # 48435
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 238, b/w plates, mapped endpapers + index. Dj has chips and tears along edges. Name to front free endpaper - interior o/w unmarked. Seller Inventory # 051073
Book Description [0-919306-31-4] 1972, 1st edition. (Cloth) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 238pp. Illus., mapped endpapers. Seller Inventory # 107285
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. B/W Maps and Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. From Grand Rapids on Lake Winnipeg to Fort Edmonton in the years 1873 to 1890, the dream was to move goods and people by river steamboat. Some of these boats were designed with decadence in mind. Navigable channels in all seasons proved to be a major challenge. Fates were sealed with the coming of the railroad. These 247 pages - includes INDEX and `notes' - give the stories and details of the fourteen or so vessels that plied these waters. B/W maps and photographs assist text. Learn about : the coal fleet, tonnage, Wheeler's Island, The Cut-Off, Cumberland House, and Josephus Todd. Cond : Boards are buff coloured with dark brown lettering. End-papers are maps of the river system. D.J. is tan in colour with red and brown lettering. D.J. illustration is a mosaic of three riverboat scenes.D.J. (now protected in mylar) has some sun fading and is worn at all points and some edges. Volume is tight, bright, square and clean. No marks, creases, nor tears. Long dedication to a p/o on ffep. Excellent reference ! ! Quote (p. 105) : " The Saskatchewan River originally ran south of and parallel to Cumberland Lake; the lake drained into the river through two short streams. Some seventy miles west of Cumberland House the Saskatchewan flowed through flat, marshty ground where ._._._. ." Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 008109
Book Description Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp. 238, ep maps, b/w illustrations, maps and tables. Signed and dedicated by the author on the title page. Signed the author. book. Seller Inventory # 116556
Book Description [0-919306-31-4] 1972. (Hardcover) Near fine, no dust jacket. 238pp. Map endpapers, frontispiece, illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Locale: Prairie Provinces; Saskatchewan River; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Steamboats--Western Canada, Transportation--Canada). Seller Inventory # 143923
Book Description [0-919306-31-4] 1972. (Hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 238pp. Map endpapers, frontispiece, illustrations, photographs, maps, notes, index. Locale: Prairie Provinces; Saskatchewan River; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Steamboats--Western Canada, Transportation--Canada). Seller Inventory # 100250