BROAD SIDE.

Vaillancourt, Emile. (Inscribed.) Introduction by Wilfrid Bovey.

Published by D. Ducharme, Montreal, 1936

About this Item

108 pp, 7 1/2" H - silver dimpled card covers with black lettering/decoration on front/rear covers. 2 b&w illustration. Inscribed on half title page: "To Ross Macdonald, M.P. / With warmest good / wishes for the / coming year / Emile Vaillancourt / Outremont, 29th / Dec. 1940". (William Ross Macdonald was at that time Member of Parliament for Brantford. He went on to become Speaker of the House of Commons, Leader of the Senate, Solicitor General of Canada, Lt. Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of Waterloo Lutheran University. An envelope addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Ross Macdonald has been glued to the rear free endpaper and contains a hand written note thanking them for an inscribed copy of a book, presumably by Mr. Macdonald.) Contents: Introduction; Unity of Origin - Unity of Sentiment; History Versus Finance; Text of a Poster; The Unswerving Loyalty; The French Tricolor in Canada. M. Vaillancourt presents a series of essays about French and English Canadians, and French Canada, focusing on the commonalities (such as a shared Norman heritage), rather than the differences, and emphasizing French Canadian contributions to the growth of North America. Interior - light browning to the pages - mainly in the margins, a slight separation between some of the page gatherings but pages are holding very firmly in the binding. Exterior - light to moderate edge wear, wrinkling at the edges of the coard covers, two soft corner creases, the spine has a light to moderate lean and has two creases, light browning to the edges of the text block.

Seller Inventory # 31351

Bibliographic Details

• Title: BROAD SIDE.
• Publisher: D. Ducharme, Montreal
• Publication Date: 1936
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by author.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canada - General
  • History and Travel
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