The Serpent's Coil
by Mowat, Farley
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1961. First Edition. Near fine in pale yellow cloth covered boards with light blue text and decorations on the spine and on the boards with map end sheets. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with two 1/2" deep chips at the upper edge of the rear panel and with several, narrow very shallow chips from the edges of the front panel and spine area. 189 pages of text illustrated with drawings by F. Newfeld. The author recounts the factual struggle of several men and ships to battle three successive hurricanes in the north Atlantic in the fall of 1948. This is the uncommon, first Canadian edition which preceded both the first American edition by Little Brown in 1961 and the first UK edition by Michael Joseph in 1962.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB23270
- Title
- The Serpent's Coil
- Author
- Mowat, Farley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Canada
- Date Published
- 1961
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
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