THE DEATH OF THE KING'S CANARY.
by Thomas, Dylan (1914-53) and John Davenport
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket (discoloration from glue on endpapers and under dj flaps)/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0670262307
- ISBN 13
- 9780670262304
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
New York:: The Viking Press,, (1977). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (discoloration from glue on endpapers and under dj flaps). First US printing. First publication of this collaborative mystery novel originally written in 1938-1940 by Thomas and Davenport, and unpublishable at the time - one which parodies many of the major poets of the time, including T. S. Eliot, Auden and more. Introduction by Constantine FitzGibbon. Errata slip laid in. 145 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 68029
- Title
- THE DEATH OF THE KING'S CANARY.
- Author
- Thomas, Dylan (1914-53) and John Davenport
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket (discoloration from glue on endpapers and under dj flaps)
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670262307
- ISBN 13
- 9780670262304
- Publisher
- The Viking Press,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- (1977)
- Keywords
- mystery, poetry,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern first editions;
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- Jacket
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- First Edition
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...