Down the Long Table by Earle Birney - 1975

McCelland & Stewart. First Edition. HARDCOVER. Very Good/Very Good. We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! Canadian first edition, first printing. Published in 1955. Stated first edition on copyright page. Jacket is in Very Good + condition. Front of jacket has a 1 inch tear to bottom and three small 1/4 inch tears to top. Back of jacket has two small 1/2 inch tear to top. Spine ends of jacket are worn. Jacket is neatly price clipped. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.

Mcclelland & Stewart, 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" In blue & green jacket, 8vo, 298pp. (light toning to extremities, short nick to jacket at top edge, inscription to endpaper).

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955. 298 pp, 8vo (8 1/4" H). In this novel, Gordon Saunders, a Canadian professor lecturing at an American university one day finds himself "among hostile strangers. There they sat, his accusers, looking at him down the length of the table, and of half a lifetime in a room filled with the atmostphere of suspicion and hatred - the special atmosphere of Investigating Committees in the Fifties. Their questions concerned people he had known, and things he had done, in 1932 and 1933; certain people and certain things only, for their final and all-important question - his relationship, past and present, with the Communist Party." Tiny closed tear (archivally taped) at top corner of free rear endpaper, bump to top corner of boards with slight migration into adjacent few pages, slight bump at bottom corners, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, tiny repaired tear in cloth at bottom of front hinge, small shallow bump on bottom edge of rear board, light browning… Read More

McClelland & Stewart, 1955 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to green cloth hardcover. Owner's name and small red stamp on front end paper. Dust jacket has a bit of shelf wear and a 1-1/2 inch chip on bottom edge of rear panel. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. 298 pp. .

McClelland & Stewart, 1955 Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to green cloth hardcover. Bookseller stamp and small red stamp on front end paper. Dust jacket has a bit of shelf wear. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. 298 pp. .

Toronto McClelland Stewart [] , 1955, First Edition. hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. -- Novel, a professor interrogated by political anti-Communist committee of the 1950s, people he had known in the 1930s. -- Hardcover. Condition: Very good (owner name) in very good dust jacket (a little edge-wear, light stain). -- Nice bright copy for the collector of this important Canadian poet (1904-95).

Paperback / softback. New.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo. 298 pp. Head and foot of spine bruised, small remainder (?) stamp on front free endpaper; dustjacket has some light edgewear with slight chipping at head and foot of spine, and is lightly soiled and tanned on rear panel. Still quite a lovely copy of Birney's second novel.

McClelland and Stewart, 1955. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1955. 298 pp. White endpapers. Green cloth with yellow and blue titles. Corners bumped. No DJ. VG+. First Edition.