Puckoon
by MILLIGAN, SPIKE
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Anthony Blond 1963. FIRST EDITION, octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained green- faded, 152pp, illus, VG (spine sl cocked, sl scuffing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. ownership ink markings to ffep, sl foxing to prelims) in d/w, G+ (heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, 16cm clean closed tear to front of jacket, considerable staining)
Synopsis
Puckoon is a comic novel by Spike Milligan, first published in 1963. It is his first full-length novel, and only major fictional work. Set in 1924, it details the troubles brought to the fictional Irish village of Puckoon by the Partition of Ireland: the new border, due to the incompetence of the Boundary Commission, passes directly through the village, with most of the village remaining in independent Ireland, but with a significant portion in Ulster, in Northern Ireland.
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- Hard To Find Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 318629
- Title
- Puckoon
- Author
- MILLIGAN, SPIKE
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Anthony Blond 1963
- Keywords
- modern first editions literature fiction novels humour humor Spike Milligan
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- G+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good. Good is defined as "describes the average used and worn book...
- 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...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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