DAVIES, ROBERTSON
What's Bred in the Bone
New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking Press, 1985. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0670809160. A stated first American edition of Robertson Davies's second novel in his "Cornish Trilogy." This is the life story of the author's Frank Cornish character, who, among other things, finds himself painting and restoring paintings in Nazi Germany. --- In gold paper-covered boards backed in black cloth with spine titling in gilt. Jacket features Jill Krementz photographic portrait of the author to back panel. --- A Good-only copy, with a lot of soiling to cloth cover, inked doodle to front free endpaper, else a sound, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped jacket with discoloration to lower front cover edge, else bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (6), 436 pages. Good in Very Good- dust jacket .
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