Just Add Water and Stir
by Berton, Pierre
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
-
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with short tears and dime size chip bottom fore corner of dust jacket. Thinning top corner of front free end paper from erasure. ; Stated first edition. A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; B&W Illustrations; 222 pages; "Being a random collection of satirical essays, rude remarks, used anecdotes, thumbnail sketches, ancient wheezes, old nostalgias, wry comments, limp doggerel, intemperate recipes, vagrant opinions and crude drawings by" newspaperman and historian Pierre Berton .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18392
- Title
- Just Add Water and Stir
- Author
- Berton, Pierre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1959
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor; Canadiana;
Terms of Sale
Ainsworth Books
Satisfaction guaranteed - if I have made an error in the description, I will refund book and shipping both ways. If the customer just changes his/her mind I will only refund one shipping charge. Please contact me before sending a book back. Any dust jackets on books will have a Mylar protector. Books shipped from US or Canada.
About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
Glossary
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.