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Leaven of Malice
by Davies, Robertson
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1954. Undetermined. near fine. 1st edition. 312pp. Octavo. Original bright red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. In original dust jacket. Very slight bumping to top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight text block. Very minor chipping to edges of dust jacket spine and corners and minor wear to back of dust jacket. near fine The second novel in the Salterton Trilogy, Davies' series about a fictional small town in Ontario. The novel centres around an anonymous hoax, an engagement announcement printed in the local paper. The novel won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1955. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. 1954
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
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133169
- Title
- Leaven of Malice
- Author
- Davies, Robertson
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Clarke, Irwin & Company
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1954
- Keywords
- Canadian Fiction|Canadian Literature
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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