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A very good first edition of the first book in the hilarious Samuel Marchbanks trilogy.
A very good first edition of the first book in the hilarious Samuel Marchbanks trilogy.
A very good first edition of the first book in the hilarious Samuel Marchbanks trilogy.

a first edition of the first in the Marchbanks trilogy


DAVIES, Robertson.

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks.

Toronto, Clarke, Irwin & Company, 1947.

$171.00
$171.00

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks.

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This copy is a first edition of 'some of the freshest and funniest writing that has appeared in Canada in many a weary year' (dustjacket). The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks was the first in Robertson Davies' trilogy following the eponymous Marchbanks, a pseudonym Davies began in 1944 with a series of columns in the Peterborough Examiner, a small-town newspaper published in Ontario, Canada. This edition features a year's worth of Marchbanks columns in diary format, separated into seasons with lavishly decorated seasonal headings with flora and fauna illustrated and designed by Clair Stewart.

First edition; 8vo (20.5 x 14.5 cm); illustrated frontispiece and section titles, device on title-page, tipped in 'Warning to the Reader' on contents page, very lightly offset and toned; publisher's red cloth, spine lettered in silver, original dustjacket lettered in black with green and red ornamentation (toned and rubbed, with plastic wrap); [viii], 204pp.

Stock code 119456

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A very good first edition of the first book in the hilarious Samuel Marchbanks trilogy.

The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks.

$171.00
$171.00

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