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Kicking Against the Pricks
by Metcalf, John (INSCRIBED)
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0920802397
- ISBN 13
- 9780920802397
- Seller
-
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Downsview, (Toronto), ON: ECW Press, 1982. First Printing . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good+. A satirical attack, in 9 essays, on the gods, idols and sacred tenets of CanLit. No hardcover issue in first edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 216 pages including 12 pages of B&W photos. Tight clean copy with slight rubbing to edges and very slight soiling to vertical page ends. INSCRIBED to Toronto academic & writer Sylvia (Du Vernet) at Harbourfront in 198.
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Park Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002693
- Title
- Kicking Against the Pricks
- Author
- Metcalf, John (INSCRIBED)
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0920802397
- ISBN 13
- 9780920802397
- Publisher
- ECW Press
- Place of Publication
- Downsview, (Toronto), ON
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature- History & Criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Non-Fiction;
- X weight
- 0 kg
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About the Seller
High Park Books
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Kitchener, Ontario
About High Park Books
We are a small independent bookseller specializing in non-fiction, music, art, poetry, Canadian local history, Mennonite history, Canadian literature, children's literature and books on native issues.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...