Marchbanks' Almanack
by Davies, Robertson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 205 p. 28 cm. Cover titles read "Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack". Sound and square binding, in black paper-covered boards. Bottom corners lightly bumped. Minor wear to all corners. A couple of dings to bottom edges. Inside pages clean and unmarked, but tanning. Dustjacket spine and flap folds are darkened. It has light edge wear, more so at the spine ends. The title cut out has three very tiny tears. It is not price clipped. This is the third book in a series of witty observations by "Samuel Marchbanks". Samuel Marchbanks wrote editorials for the Peterborough Examiner while his creator, Robertson Davies, was the editor of the paper. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Homeward Bound Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 939
- Title
- Marchbanks' Almanack
- Author
- Davies, Robertson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1967
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About the Seller
Homeward Bound Books
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
About Homeward Bound Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Edges
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- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
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- First Edition
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