Whale Music
by QUARRINGTON, PAUL
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385252102
- ISBN 13
- 9780385252102
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Blue boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket price clipped. A near fine copy.
Synopsis
The author of eight novels, Paul Quarrington is also a musician, an award-winning screenwriter, a filmmaker, a playwright and an acclaimed non-fiction writer. He won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for Whale Music in 1989 and the Stephen Leacock Medal the year before for King Leary .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35373
- Title
- Whale Music
- Author
- QUARRINGTON, PAUL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385252102
- ISBN 13
- 9780385252102
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1989
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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