The Merry Muse
by Linklater, Eric
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good
- Seller
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1960. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition.. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1960. Stated First American Edition. Very Good+/Very Good. "First American Edition" stated on copyright page in original unclipped jacket. Clean unfaded red cloth boards with author's initials stamped decoratively on cover, gold lettering on spine. No fraying or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 317 pp. Jacket is not price clipped (3.95 on front inside flap), clean with moderate soiling to rear white panel, no chips, a few short closed edge tears. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Humorous novel about an eminent Scottish lawyer who believes that life is worth living for any with a good digestion and a bad memory, and who remains at sixty a lusty appreciator of wine, women and songs--and Victorian paintings..
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- Bookseller
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019450
- Title
- The Merry Muse
- Author
- Linklater, Eric
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Stated First American Edition.
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- HUMOR NOVEL FICTION ERIC LINKLATER FIRST EDITION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
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Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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Stanley, New York
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- Price Clipped
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- Edges
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- Good+
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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