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A Choice of Enemies
de Richler, Mordecai
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- good to very good
- Librería
-
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Andre Deutsch, 1957. Undetermined. good to very good. 1st Edition. 256pp. 12mo. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Bumping to ends of spine with fading along bottom edge of boards. Previous owners name on front free endpaper, with crease from fold on back free endpaper. Clean tight text block. In illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped, rubbed and soiled, especially around edges and spine. Some chipping and small closed tears on edges with larger closed tear running up spine from bottom. good to very good A rare first edition of the third novel by the celebrated Canadian author, screen writer and essayist. 1957
Sinopsis
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 131777
- Título
- A Choice of Enemies
- Autor
- Richler, Mordecai
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Undetermined
- Estado del libro
- Usado - good to very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Andre Deutsch
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1957
- Palabras clave
- Can Lit|Canadian Lit|Canadian Literature|Richler, Mordecai|Canadian Author
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
