A Spell for Old Bones by Eric Linklater

Jonathan Cape, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 223 pages (complete). Boards shelf rubbed, cocked, marked. Tanning, foxing, deckle edges, markings. However, it is still a fair copy, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MK.. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Jonathan Cape, 1949. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. 223 pages (complete). A love-story set in first century Scotland amongst the giants and poets. A much owned copy. The cloth cover has wear about all edges and seams. Ex-library (Escom Staff Library) with consequent usage, marks and wear. The blurb has been affixed to the frontispage. Despite wear the spine is secure and contented. The pages are comfortable, clear, sure, confident and certain. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

HARDBACK "WITH DUST JACKET," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1949* Publisher: Jonathan Cape.* Binding and cover condition: Buff cloth, scarlet title to spine and face. No bumps or rubs, small weave faults to cloth on front board. VG* Jacket condition: Red & black text to cream dust wrapper. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing shelf price of 9/- net. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Small tears at top edge. Spine lightly aged. GD++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, minimal marks to text, slight foxing to end papers and fore edge, otherwise no tanning to contents. VG++.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 223 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: A fantasy tale of a war between two giants in the First Century A.D in pre-Norman scotland. This provides a background to a love story between a poet and a princess. Political allegory, about the conflicts generated by… Read More