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Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey: Available Copies
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JORKENS BORROWS ANOTHER WHISKEY. by DUNSANY, LORD
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Publisher: michael joseph, 1954, first edition ,, (1954)
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS (webster, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $38.00
Shipping: $6.45
TOTAL Cost: $44.45
very good , chipping at the spine ends, sticker removal mark in the center of the spine, jacket only, NO BOOK
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Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
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Publisher: Michael Joseph, London (1954)
Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books (Benalla, VIC, Australia)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $46.43
Shipping: $29.00
TOTAL Cost: $75.43
The price clipped jacket is chipped at the edges; the head of the spine is damaged, including minor loss, as is the spines tail, this with more substantial loss. The front of the jacket suffers also from minor loss at the outer edge towards the tail, repeated on the front board, which is chipped underneath. Both end papers and paste downs are foxed and there is an ownership signature on the front end paper as well as a bookseller's stamp. The body of the book is in very good condition, clean, unmarked and solid. "Joseph Jorkens (usually referred to simply as Jorkens) is the lead character in over 150 short stories written between 1925 and 1957 by the Irish author Lord Dunsany, noted for his fantasy short stories, fantastic plays, novels and other writings. The Jorkens stories, primarily fantasy but also including elements of adventure, mystery and science fiction literature, have been collected in a series of six books, and were a key inspiration for the "fantastic club tale" type of short story" (Wikipedia)
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Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Michael Joseph London 1954 (1954)
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne (Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $66.00
Shipping: $20.00
TOTAL Cost: $86.00
1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 256pp., frontis., 'The horrific, the comic and the poetic go hand in hand in this work', by an acknowledged master of the macabre. Engraved book plates on end papers & some browning in text o/w a very good copy in like Ronald Searle dust jacket with minor chipping
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JORKENS BORROWS ANOTHER WHISKEY by Dunsany, Lord
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Michael Joseph (1954)
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979 (ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.)
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Book Price: $174.00
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TOTAL Cost: $186.50
JORKENS BORROWS ANOTHER WHISKEY, Michael Joseph, 1954, first edition, just about fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper.
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JORKENS BORROWS ANOTHER WHISKEY by Lord Dunsany
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Publisher: Tonbridge Printers Ltd, Great Britain (1954)
Seller: Atlanta Vintage Books (Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $340.00
Shipping: $4.50
TOTAL Cost: $344.50
Green cloth over boards with gilt particulars and publisher's emblem to spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Text block is tanned with light shelf wear; top edge is lightly soiled. Boards are bright with rubbing to edges, corners and ends of spine; corners and ends of spine bumped. Dust jacket has creasing, rubbing and closed tears to edges, corners and ends of spine; sunning and soiling to spine; 1-inch tear to lower edge of front cover; soiling to rear cover. Dust jacket is covered in a protective mylar jacket.
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Jorkens borrows another whiskey by Lord Dunsany
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London (1954)
Seller: Feheri Books (Veszprem, Hungary)
Used Book—Condition: Good
Book Price: $659.35
Shipping: $15.47
TOTAL Cost: $674.82
Lord Dunsany. Jorkens borrows another whiskey London: Michael Joseph, 1954 First edition, the fifth and last of the Jorkens books published before the author's death (The last work, The Last Book of Jorkens, was lost in the family archive and only published in 2002). A collection of thirty-four fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens and told in the frame of a gentlemen's club in London, of which the narrator is a member. The Jorkens stories, primarily fantasy but also including elements of adventure, mystery and science fiction literature, have been collected in a series of six books, and were a key inspiration for the "fantastic club tale" type of short story. A very good, clean copy, in the original dust wrappers with slight wear at the corners and top of the spine. 256 pp. 18,5 x 12 cm.
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JORKENS BORROWS ANOTHER WHISKEY by Dunsany, Lord (Edward Plunkett)
Hardcover
ISBN:
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London (1954)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB (Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $750.00
Shipping: $6.00
TOTAL Cost: $756.00
Octavo, cloth. First edition. The fifth and last of the Jorkens books. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 592. See Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-124. See Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1508-09. A fine copy in fine 12/6 dust jacket with touch of wear at top edge of spine panel. A lovely copy. Quite scarce thus. (#162462)
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