The Faithful Ally
by Linklater, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Jonatahn Cape and The Book Society, 1954. This edition issued on first publication by The Book Society in association with Jonathan Cape, 1954. Hardback. 257pp. Red cloth with black design to upper board and black with gilt to spine. Top edge tinted red. Dustjacket. This story is essentially a contest - moral, not physical - between the talented but irresponsible Sultan of Namua, and Morland, a Government official whose high principles rest on egotism. The background is a romantic principality in a Pacific island during a savage insurrection. The novel offers a comedy of many shades - with irony predominating - in a landscape of many colours. Book in very good condition. Book Society ex libris plate to front paste down. Light bumping to corners. Very faint toning to endpapers. Dust jacket good. Unclipped. Generally rubbed and soiled. Spine discoloured. Corners chipped and reinforced with tape to rear surface.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1305836
- Title
- The Faithful Ally
- Author
- Linklater, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Jonatahn Cape and The Book Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....