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Leaven of Malice
by Davies, Robertson
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140054332
- ISBN 13
- 9780140054330
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Penguin, 1988. Reprint . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 262 pp. Very light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. The second volume in the Salterton Trilogy.
Synopsis
Leaven of Malice, published in 1954, is the second novel in The Salterton Trilogy by Canadian novelist Robertson Davies. The other two novels are Tempest-Tost and A Mixture of Frailties. The series was also published in one volume as The Salterton Trilogy in 1986. The trilogy revolves around the residents of the imaginary town of Salterton, Ontario. Davies won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1955 for Leaven of Malice.
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- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013597
- Title
- Leaven of Malice
- Author
- Davies, Robertson
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140054332
- ISBN 13
- 9780140054330
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Fiction
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- Edges
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- Rubbing
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Mass Market
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- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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