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The Edible Woman
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- very good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1969. Hardcover. very good. 1st Edition. 281pp. Octavo. Original Maroon cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Some very minor professional repairs done to spine and dust jacket. Clean, tight text block. Small tape mark on attached front endpaper. In dust jacket, not price clipped. Lightly worn around edges and spine, small crease on back. A very nice copy. very good The first novel by the two time Governor General's Award winner. A rare first edition of a strong protofeminist novel. Signed by Atwood on the title page. 1969
Synopsis
The Edible Woman, a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance, is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world suddenly slips strangely out of focus. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her self are becoming separated. As Marian begins endowing food with human qualities that cause her to identify with it, she finds herself unable to eat, repelled by metaphorical cannibalism.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131736
- Title
- The Edible Woman
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Canadian Fiction|Canadian Literature|Atwood, Margaret|Can Lit|Margaret Atwood|Signed
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Aquila Books
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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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Jacket
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