The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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The Acrobats
by RICHLER, Mordecai (1931-2001)
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- 1954
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
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£233.89
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine+. First Impression of the Canadian author's first book. 8vo; 204pp. Publisher's green cloth, the spine stamped gilt; in a pictorial dust jacket priced 10s/6d. Just about Fine, square, tight and, bright, the top edge dust-speckled, the end papers with offsetting from the jacket flaps; Near Fine or better… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Richler, Mordecai
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Victoria, British Columbia, CAN
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£207.16
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a few spots on top edge of text block, and offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps. The price-clipped jacket shows a little wear at spine crown and heel, ( slight loss at crown ), and minor soiling to white back panel. A very… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats: A Novel [Signed Bookplate Laid in]
by RICHLER, Mordecai
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Winchester, Virginia, USA
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£364.18
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[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1954]. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm.); original simulated cloth in blue and green pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 204pp. Small piece of repair to jacket spine crown, price clip affecting one word with minor loss of meaning, else Very Good and sound. Bookplate signed by the author laid in. The Canadian author's first book, set in Valencia.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Mordecai Richler
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- 1970
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, GBR
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£9.97
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Sphere, 1970. Paperback. Good. 1970. 1970 Reprint. 189 pages. Blue pictorial paperback. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Paper cover is lightly rub worn and thumbed with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Light creases to corners and spine. Light tanning to spine and edges. Item Price
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THE ACROBATS
by Richler, Mordecai
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Middletown, Maryland, USA
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(London): Andre Deutsch, (1954). First edition. His first book, a novel. Very good to near fine with 1/4" area of darkening to base of spine affecting few letters in publisher's name and inch-wide offsets at hinges (from the binding); in good or better dust jacket chipped at spine ends and nicked at corners and with internal archival tape repair… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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- 1954
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WEYMOUTH, Dorset, GBR
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£25.00
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. Hardcover, browning to eps, light foxig to front edge, covers pushed, a signature in ink, crossed out in ink on ffep, otherwise Good in Fair dustjacket with edge loss at spine ends and bottom of front cover, also a large triangular closed tear at top corner of front cover.… Read more about this item Item Price
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- First American Edition
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- 1954
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Beloit, Wisconsin, USA
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£60.70
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Canadian author's first novel; the Ahearns report that fewer than 1000 were printed of this first American edition. Black hardcover, black & red titling. Light wear to book, corners slightly rubbed; jacket shows some edgewear & light chipping, spine quite faded, faint foxing inside jacket.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Octavo. Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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- 1954
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Chico, California, USA
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£80.93
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. Mordecai Richler (1931-2001) is recognized as perhaps the finest Canadian author of the mid-20th Century. This is his first book, an uncommon title. Set in post-WWII Spain with a cast of expatriots, it has a very left-bank feel. This is a Near Fine copy of the First American Edition. Although published in the same… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Mordecai Richler
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- 1954
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BATH, Somerset, GBR
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£90.00
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 7.5" by 5.5". Not Stated. The first edition of this sought-after novel by Canadian author Mordecai Richler, the first of his many works. Written by well-known and award-winning Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler.The first of Richler's novels, published when he was only twenty-two years old, which tells the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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Montreal, Quebec, CAN
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£28.29
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Sphere, 1970. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Vintage copy. A bit of waterstaining to front cover and first three pages along spine and binding. Some creasing to spine, but biding is still tight. Natural ageing to pages.
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1954
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Toronto, Ontario, CAN
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£147.98
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Green boards lettered in gilt, slightly cocked, with very light bumping to the spine ends. Dust jacket not price clipped, with tiny nicks to the spine ends, with two tape marks visible on the lower edge of rear cover, from tape to verso. Clean and bright copy overall.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by RICHLER, MORDECAI
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- 1954
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Toronto, Ontario, CAN
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£236.76
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing. 8vo. 204 pp. Green boards with gilt spine lettering, the spine head very lightly bumped, light offsetting from flaps to the endpapers, dust jacket with very light nicks and creases around the edges, two very little closed rips, but in all, a fresh and bright copy,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1954
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Stroud, Gloucestershire, GBR
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£60.00
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book Author's First Novel.Slight loss to top left corner front d/j and head of d/j spine, base of book spine slightly darkened. Item Price
£60.00
The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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- 1st Edition
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- 1954
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Sacramento, California, USA
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£72.84
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G. P. Putnam's, 1954. 1st Edition . Near-fine with a touch of rubbing at the corners and small ownership stamp at top corner of flyleaf, otherwise bright and clean inside and out. In a very good plus dust jacket ($3.50 price intact) with slight wear at the spine ends and a touch of edgewear. An excellent copy… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Mordecai Richler
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- First Edition 1st Printing
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- 1954
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Mississauga, Ontario, CAN
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£141.63
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First UK Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. Very good book in a good priced dust jacket. The jacket has some wear and tears, including a piece missing from the front panel. The book has the ownership bookplate of Joyce Weiner, the agent for the author at the time… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by RICHLER, MORDECAI
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- Used - Near Fine
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- Near Fine
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- 1st Edition
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- 1954
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Toronto, Ontario, CAN
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£384.74
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1954. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Small 8vo. Gilt lettered green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on the endpaper "For Greg Mordecai Richler Oct 17/94" With the ownership signature of Greg Gatenby on the front endpaper. a Near fine copy with two very short tears to the edge of the dust jacket. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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- No Jacket
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- 1st Edition 1st Printing
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- 1953
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- Hardcover
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Oakville, Ontario, CAN
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£2,963.47
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Andre Deutsch, 1953. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. About the book: Hardcover without jacket. First edition. Author's first novel. Signed by author to Neil Compton (Dean of English at Concordia) and his wife. They became acquaintances with the author while in London. The book is dated March 25, 1954 and since the book wasn't released until… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Acrobats
by Richler, Mordecai
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- Good
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- First Edition
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Madison, New Jersey, USA
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£60.70
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. 246pp.Black Cloth. Rubbing to the spine edges and corner tips. Internally clean, unmarked copy. Price-clipped pictorial jacket (designed by Evleigh), has chips, closed tears along the extremities. "Living in a rat-infested hotel in Franco’s post-war Spain, André Bennett, a Canadian painter, loves Toni, his girl friend, who wants him to return home. Roger Kraus,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The acrobats : a novel
by Richler, Mordecai (1931-2001)
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- 1954
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Galway, IRL
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£121.40
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London : A. Deutsch, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 204p. ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction. Item Price
£121.40
The Acrobats
by Mordecai Richler
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- Used - Fine
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- Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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£38.44
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Octavo. Original black cloth with single date on copyright page and $3.50 on flap. Early novel by the author of ST. URBAIN'S HORSEMAN. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has, small thin yellow protective label tape at each corner, and isin very good, clean and bright… Read more about this item Item Price
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