A Keeper of Swans.
by PURCELL, Patrick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dublin: Talbot Press, (1946). Reprint. 19 cm x 13 cm, brown boards backed in white cloth, pp. 306. Copyright page states "Dutch Edition, Uitgeverij de Koepel, Groesbeekscheweg 92A, Nijmegen, Holland". A volume in the Talbot 2/- Library. A novel with text in English. By the author of "The Quiet Man" Page edges foxed, else very good in dust jacket, with a small chip at head of spine, slight loss at corner tips and a 2.85 cm closed tear to front panel. Looks attractive in its mylar dust jacket protector..
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 455
- Title
- A Keeper of Swans.
- Author
- PURCELL, Patrick
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dublin: Talbot Press, (1946). Reprint.
- Keywords
- LITM-Z
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
Terms of Sale
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Payment with order only, except for institutions which may request billing. We accept payment by Visa, MasterCard, Canadian or US cheque. Canadian customers will be billed 5% GST on books and 13% HST on all other items (photographs; autograph letters, maps, prints, ephemera et al).
About the Seller
Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Tamworth, Ontario
About Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
We operate an open bookshop in Tamworth, Ontario. The shop is open daily in July and August from 11 am - 4 pm. We also maintain a general Antiquarian stock available online or by appointment only. Most of our online stock is not in the bookshop. If you wish to visit to see an item listed online, please call or email in advance of your visit so that we may arrange to have the item available in our bookshop for you to see.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...