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Trade Paper. Condizione: Good Condition. Illustrations By Jean Galt and Mary Guest. (illustratore). This book is an abridgment of A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles. Illustated card binding is slightly rubbed along edges and corners. Rubber stamped name of previouse owner on front flyleaf. Content clean and sound.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Fine first printing/. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. In fine, clear acetate dust jacket. An extensive collection of words and expressions used in Canada over the preceding 400 years.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. Jacket Condition: 'Near Fine' Condition: 'Near Fine' Notes: Red cloth boards in a near fine, clear acetate dust jacket. Binding is square and solid. Slight smudge to bottom, outer edge of text block, otherwise pages are unmarked, clean, and not bent.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Galt, Jean; Guest, Mary (illustratore). 1st. (CAD) Presumed 1st edition. No markings, Fine in Near Fine clear acetate dust jacket with a 1/2" tear to edge near the spine head in Good only slipcase with edges rubbed. Red cloth, xxiv, 927pp, [8] blank pages for Reader's Notes. Small line drawings. "That part of Canadian English which is neiher British nor American is best illustrated by the vocabulary, for there are hundreds of words which are native to Canada or which have meanings peculiar to Canada". Pink tea: a social gathering attended chiefly by women. Mudpup: a young Englishman sent out to Western Canada to learn farming. Mukluk: a warm knee-high boot worn by the Inuit and Aboriginals of the Northest Territries and the Yukon. Muskeg: an organic bog which is brown or black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth. Stook: a structure of grain sheaves, sometimes set up end to end in five or six pairs, (a long stook) sometimes in a circle (a round stook). (4.2 JM HQ 103/5 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".