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A Broken Journey
by CALLAGHAN, Morley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto. The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited. 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 12mo, 18.5cm, first Canadian edition, 270p., original green cloth, black stamped titles on the spine and upper cover, some slight fade speckling on the bottom margin of the rear cover, the fragile jacket is split along the bottom hinge edge and is edge chipped, a fine bright copy in good to very good jacket of the scarce first Canadian edition. (s1) On U.S. sheets, copyrighted by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932, with the signature Scribner's A on the verso of the title page. Callaghan had signed a contract with Scribners in 1929. The jacket is attractively designed by Ermakoff.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30513
- Title
- A Broken Journey
- Author
- CALLAGHAN, Morley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Dust Jacket Included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Toronto. The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited. 1932
- Keywords
- CANADA CANADIAN LITERATURE CALLAGHAN FIRST EDITION ERMAKOFF
Terms of Sale
Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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About the Seller
Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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Ottawa, Ontario
About Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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