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What's Bred in the Bone
by DAVIES, Robertson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670809160
- ISBN 13
- 9780670809165
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking Press. Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1985. Hard Cover. 0670809160 . A stated first American edition of Robertson Davies's second novel in his "Cornish Trilogy." This is the life story of the author's Frank Cornish character, who, among other things, finds himself painting and restoring paintings in Nazi Germany. --- In gold paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with spine titling in gilt. Jacket features Jill Krementz photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- A Good-only copy, with a lot of soiling to cloth cover, inked doodle to front free endpaper, else a sound, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket with discoloration to lower front cover edge, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 436 pages .
Synopsis
Robertson Davies (1913-1995) had three successive careers during the time he became an internationally acclaimed author: actor, publisher, and, finally, professor at the University of Toronto. The author of twelve novels and several volumes of essays and plays, he was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86079
- Title
- What's Bred in the Bone
- Author
- DAVIES, Robertson
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670809160
- ISBN 13
- 9780670809165
- Publisher
- Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 0670809160, CANADA
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