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Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood (signed)
by Kane, Alice (edited by Edith Fowke)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771032102
- ISBN 13
- 9780771032103
- Seller
-
Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (M&S), 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author provides a wealth of folklore, including songs, sayings and verse from her childhood in Northern Ireland. Kane's inscription reads, "To Mary Barker/Greetings!/Alice Kane/7/12/84." Another, non-authorial, gift inscription reads, "for Mary Barker,/in kind appreciation for/including me in the planning/and activities of the visit/of the first Canadian astronaut/ to Fredericton, Nov. 30, 1984/sincerely/Gary Whiteford/UNB" (Whiteford was a geology professor at the University of New Brunswick, and was well-known as a world traveller and huge baseball fan -- he died in 2013). Cream cloth w/caramel cloth backstrip, cream spine lettering, 254 pages (including notes and references, publications cited, records cited, songs known by James Joyce, and index of titles and first lines), illustrated. Bumped bottom corners, light wear to spine ends, in price-clipped dust jacket w/some edgewear, moderate wear to corners/spine ends, 1" tear to bottom edge, faint creasing between tear and bottom right corner..
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- Bookseller
- Augustine Funnell Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018182
- Title
- Songs and Sayings of an Ulster Childhood (signed)
- Author
- Kane, Alice (edited by Edith Fowke)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- ISBN 10
- 0771032102
- ISBN 13
- 9780771032103
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart (M&S)
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1983
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- NOISBN, NORTHERN IRELAND, ULSTER, IRISH, FOLKLORE, FOLK POETRY, STORYTELLERS, BELFAST, SAYINGS
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Music & Dance; Signed (all categories);
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