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Jorkens Borrows Another Whiskey: Available Copies

, , very good , chipping at the spine ends, sticker removal mark in the center of the spine, jacket only, NO BOOK

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)

JORKENS BORROWS ANOTHER WHISKEY, Michael Joseph, 1954, first edition, just about fine in like pictorial dust-wrapper.

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.

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)