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An Orkney Tapestry with drawings by Sylvia Wishart
by BROWN George Mackay & WISHART Sylvia (illus):
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thornhill, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Victor Gollancz 1969 . Hardback First edition Blue cloth covers with gilt spine titles. Previous owner'sbook plate inside front cover. 12 line drawings and map. Dustwrapper has wear at edges and minor nicks on spine ends , now in removeable clearview cover. A celebration of Orkney as a pattern of history, legend and folk lore with poems and a play. llustrated throughout by Sylvia Wishart - a fellow Orcadian. Chapters discuss modern Orkney; Rackwick: the development and decline of an island community, a microcosm of Orkney life; Vikings: a study of three great Vikings: Earl Sigurd; Said Magnus and Martyr, and Earl Rognvald the Crusader; Poets: a ballad maker and Robert Rendall, an Orkney poet; Midwinter Music and Midsummer Music: two chapters on folklore and communal art and poetry. 192 pages. 9.5" x 6" Wt 0.7 Kg Very Good (Good)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Mac
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28076
- Title
- An Orkney Tapestry with drawings by Sylvia Wishart
- Author
- BROWN George Mackay & WISHART Sylvia (illus):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Victor Gollancz 1969
- Keywords
- Orkney Scotland Scottish Topography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Scottish Topography;
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About the Seller
Mr Mac
Biblio member since 2004
Thornhill
About Mr Mac
Mr Mac - Secondhand, Out-of-Print books for Sale and Free Booksearch service. Member of the P.B.F.A. (Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association) Business established in 1994.
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- First Edition
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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...
- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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- 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....
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