Montreal: Seaport and City
Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1945. Hardcover. 8vo. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #007299
Orig. green cloth, blind stamped ship and scroll vignette to front board, gilt nautical decoration to spine. Top edge green. xi, 340 pp. Some spotting to boards, bumping to spine ends and corners, bruise to head of front board.. Dust jacket is price clipped, bumped and chipped to extremities, perforation to rear cover. Montreal, a thousand miles from the sea, is nevertheless one of the most important seaports in the world. But the history of Montreal is more than the history of a seaport. The teeming town on the St. Lawrence is brought to life by the pen of Stephen Leacock, the great humorist who has lived there the best part of his life and who lets his affection for it show in every sentence.
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