CAW-CAW BALLADS.
by MacDonald, Wilson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good+
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Don Mills, Ontario: T.H. Best, 1963. 47 pp, small 8vo (7 3/4" H). Non-personalized inscription by author on half title page: "Yours in good caws. Wilson MacDonald". B&w illustrations. Human foibles are satirized in these poems featuring crows. Contents: The Political Crow; The White Crow; The Black Crow; The Society Crow; The Critic Crow; The Exclusive Crow; The Service Club Crow; The Golfing Crow; The Titled Crow; The Poor Sick Crows; The Artist Crow; The Barrister Crow; The Fundamentalist Crow; The Henpecked Crow; The Pepless Crow. Tiny chip at edge of rear pastedown, minor edge wear to boards. Dust jacket has fading to spine and flap-fold color, light wrinkling at top of rear hinge. . Inscribed By Author. 9th Printing . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good+. Illus. by Guy Rutter..
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20783
- Title
- CAW-CAW BALLADS.
- Author
- MacDonald, Wilson
- Illustrator
- Guy Rutter.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good+
- Edition
- 9th Printing
- Publisher
- T.H. Best
- Place of Publication
- Don Mills, Ontario
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- Crows, Humour, Humor, Satire, Golf, Golfing, Barristers, Lawyers, Artists, Service clubs, Society, Fundamentalists, Marriage, Henpecked husbands, Snobs, Albinos, Human nature, Politics, Politicians.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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