A Breakfast For Barbarians.
by MacEwen (Gwendolyn)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Ryerson, (1966). First edition, First printing.. Grey boards, spine lettered in gilt. A nice clean copy in the pictorial dust jacket, some light wear to edges, quite a nice copy. Small embossed ownership stamp on title page. Inscribed and signed by MacEwen on the half-title leaf. Her fifth collection, the first from a major publisher.
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Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57059
- Title
- A Breakfast For Barbarians.
- Author
- MacEwen (Gwendolyn)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Toronto: Ryerson, (1966). First edition, First printing.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canlit;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
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- Title Page
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 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....