Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. Book. Illus. by John Costigan (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Set in the Scottish Highlands, this is the Scottish-born author's "story of a man hunt and of the struggle between the wild and the tamed within a man and in society." Signed on half-title. Brown cloth, 248 pages, dust jacket illustration by John Costigan. Spine a bit cocked, dusty/tanned edges, gift inscription (beneath Walker's signature) from parishioner to her cleric, in edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned spine, light chipping to corners/spine ends, 1" tear to top edge of rear panel, general wear. Quite scarce signed..

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Bookseller: Augustine Funnell Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 012145
Title: The Storm and the Silence (signed)
Author: Walker, David
Illustrator: John Costigan (dust jacket illustration)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1949
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: JOHN COSTIGAN, SCOTLAND, SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS, NOISBN
Bookseller catalogs: Canadian Fiction; Signed (all categories);

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