Little, Brown and Company. Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket. 1964. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 0385319606 . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 344 pages; Tan cloth hard covers wiht logo in purple on front and purple lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding is tight. Pages are clean with very light patina. Dust jacket with minor rubbing to the edges. Light soiling along front turn. Spine surface is tanned. .

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A Song of Sixpence is a 1964 novel by A. J. Cronin about the coming to manhood of Laurence Carroll and his life in Scotland. Its sequel is A Pocketful of Rye. As with several of his other novels, Cronin drew on his own experiences growing up in Scotland for this book. The titles of both novels come from the children's nursery rhyme, Sing a Song of Sixpence.

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Seller: The Reading Well Bookstore (US)
Seller's Inventory #: 8403
Title: A SONG OF SIXPENCE
Author: A. J. Cronin
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good+ with no Dust Jacket
Edition: Book Club Edition
ISBN 10: 0385319606
ISBN 13: 9780385319607
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1964
Keywords: 0385319606, Fiction, LITERATURE
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction;

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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...
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....
Book Club Edition: A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Good+: A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...