Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1989. Hardcover. very good. 1st limited edition. unpaginated. Thin Octavo. Brown cloth with intricate gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper with gilt detailing and lettering on front cover. Speckled grey endpapers. Text block is tight, clean. Lightly illustrated. Extremely scarce. very good Signed by the author on the limitation at the rear of the book which lists this copy as 139 of 150 published copies. 1989

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Alistair MacLeod lives in Windsor, Ontario, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.

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Bookseller: Aquila Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 128944
Title: Island - Limited Edition.
Author: MacLeod, Alistair
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - very good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0920633668
ISBN 13: 9780920633663
Publisher: Thistledown Press
Place of Publication: Saskatoon
Date Published: 1989
Keywords: Canadian Lit.|Signed by Author

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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...
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...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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....
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....
Dustwrapper: Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...