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The Bigger Light
by Austin Clarke
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine faded, spine ends worn and chipped, back cover soiled, edges and corners creased an
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 288 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine faded, spine ends worn and chipped, back cover soiled, edges and corners creased and worn with close tears. Jacket design by John Renfer.
Synopsis
Austin Clarke was born in Barbados and came to Canada to study at Trinity College in the University of Toronto. He has enjoyed a varied and distinguished career as a broadcaster, civil rights leader, and professor. His award-winning work, which includes eight novels and five collections of short fiction, is widely studied in Canadian universities. He is formerly, writer in residence at the University of Guelph, and is the 1998 inaugural winner of The Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. He lives in Toronto.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1828
- Title
- The Bigger Light
- Author
- Austin Clarke
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by John Renfer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, [octavo], red cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 288 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine faded, spine ends worn and chipped, back cover soiled, edges and corners creased an
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Austin Clarke, Barbados, The Bigger Light
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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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