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The Black Joke
by Mowat, Farley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Seller
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Prescott, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. 177 pp. Illus. Spine, corners bumped and worn. Jacket has some edgewear. Usual library stamps and markings. Jacket in a protective sleeve. The account of two Newfoundland lads who signed on the schooner Black Joke, and soon found themselves embroiled in high seas rum running. Illustrations by Douglas Johnson. Jacket design by Frank Newfeld. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
Farley Mowat was born in Belleville, Ontario, in 1921, and grew up in Belleville, Trenton, Windsor, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Richmond Hill. He served in World War II from 1940 until 1945, entering the army as a private and emerging with the rank of captain. He began writing for his living in 1949 after spending two years in the Arctic. Since 1949 he has lived in or visited almost every part of Canada and many other lands, including the distant regions of Siberia. He remains an inveterate traveller with a passion for remote places and peoples. He has twenty-five books to his name, which have been published in translations in over twenty languages in more than sixty countries. They include such internationally known works as People of the Deer , The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be , Never Cry Wolf , Westviking , The Boat That Wouldn’t Float , Sibir , A Whale for the Killing , The Snow Walker , And No Birds Sang , and Virunga: The Passion of Dian Fossey . His short stories and articles have appeared in The Saturday Evening Post , Maclean’s , Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
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Details
- Seller
- Riverwash Books
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- FIC1263
- Title
- The Black Joke
- Author
- Mowat, Farley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- Newfoundland, Juvenile Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Riverwash Books
Biblio member since 2004
Prescott, Ontario
About Riverwash Books
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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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