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Fifth Business
by Davies, Robertson
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 014004387X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140043877
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Penguin, 1977. Reprint . Mass Market Paperback. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 266 pp. Some rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. The first volume in the Deptford Trilogy.
Synopsis
Fifth Business is a 1970 novel by Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies. It is the first installment of the Deptford Trilogy and is a story of the life of the narrator, Dunstan Ramsay. It is Davies' best-known novel, and considered his finest. First published by Macmillan of Canada in 1970, Fifth Business was selected 40th on the American Modern Library's "reader's list" of the 100 best novels of the 20th century.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013599
- Title
- Fifth Business
- Author
- Davies, Robertson
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 014004387X
- ISBN 13
- 9780140043877
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1977
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Mass Market
- Mass market paperback books, or MMPBs, are printed for large audiences cheaply. This means that they are smaller, usually 4...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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