Whisky Galore
by Compton Mackenzie
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
The Reprint Society, 1951. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. pgs.256 clean tight copy with tanning to text pages green cloth covers with gold gilt title top spine show shelfwear to board extremities some crimping to top/botoom spines and some wear to corners broken gutter at pages 32-33 but all pages still attached
Synopsis
Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie (1947) and was subsequently adapted for the cinema under the title Whisky Galore!.
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- Bookseller
- Booked Experiences
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 286891
- Title
- Whisky Galore
- Author
- Compton Mackenzie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Reprint Society
- Date Published
- 1951
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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