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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a few spots on top edge of text block, and offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps. The price-clipped jacket shows a little wear at spine crown and heel, ( slight loss at crown ), and minor soiling to white back panel. A very bright copy, without the usual toning to the jacket spine. Author's first book..
Synopsis
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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12113
- Title
- The Acrobats
- Author
- Richler, Mordecai
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Publisher
- Andre Deutsch
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition Canadian Literature;
Terms of Sale
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All books returnable if customer is not satisfied.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2006
Victoria, British Columbia
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After 30 years with an open shop, Renaissance Books is now online only.
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- Heel
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- 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....
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
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