Lives of Girls and Women by Munro, Alice - 1971

McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Good/fair. Owner's bookplate on FFE. Binding tight and square. Dust jacket has a few chips to edges.

Toronto: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1971. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. Canadian Printing With No Additional Printings Stated Of The Canadian's Author Second Novel. No Gift Inscription Or Remarks Inside. The Dust Jacket Is Mildly Creased At The Outer Edges, With Some Very Small Tears. The Book And Boards Have No Soil Or Foxing Spots. No Remainder Mark. The Dust Jacket Is Protected By Mylar.- We can ship from Canada and the USA, based on your address. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

Toronto: Mcgraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine but for prev. owner name on ffep., and tape stains from where jacket was taped to the cream coloured boards. Internally, appears unread. The jacket has been laminated, and there are some lines of delamination..

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. 1971. Second Edition. Hardcover. 0070929327 . 254 pp. Spine, corners bumped. Jacket has edgewear. Munro's second published collection of interlinked stories. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 254. 8vo. Slight spine slant, minor discolouration to board edges, a few small spots to rear board, ink name to ffep, contents clean, binding tight as if unread; very good, in good- dustjacket showing one 1-inch tear at top of front joint, a few small scuffs and short tears, a half-inch oval spot, moisture mark to verso. Author's first novel, and second book. Munro claims 'This novel is autobiographical in form, but not in fact'.

Toronto: McGraw-Hill/Ryerson, 1971. (CAD) First Printing No markings, but there is darkening to the cover boards where unprotected by the dust jacket (mostly to the top edge and bottom edges of the covers) pages clean, hinges solid, about Very Good copy in Fair only Dj with chipping to the top edge and a bit of loss to the foot of spine panel and to the lower front flap fold; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Cream bds, 254pp. This is the second book by Canada's acclaimed short story writer. (1.9 JM HOQ 103/b2. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good (-)/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1971. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. The author's second book of short stories and winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book Year Award. Her debut, The Dance of the Happy Shades, won the Governor Generals Award. Alice Munro is an internationally acclaimed short story writer often referred to as the 'Chekhov of the north'. A near fine book (previous ownership signature) with light bumps to upper board corners, in a mildly rubbed fine dust jacket with a couple of small closed tears. An uncommon book.

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1971. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 254 p. 23 cm. Cream cloth hardcover with green lettering on spine. In mylar-covered pictorial dustjacket. Some creases and tears to covers and a chip in bottom rear panel near spine. Black mark on upper rear board. Small ink signature on front free endpaper. Signed by author on title page. A short story cycle by Alice Munro, all of the stories chronicling the life of a single character, Del Jordan. The cycle is often believed to have many feminist ideas; certainly it deals primarily with female characters, with only a few male figures playing important roles. Munro's focus is the human condition and relationships seen through the lens of daily life in small town Ontario. "The Flats Road;" Heirs of the Living Body;" "Princess Ida;" "Age of Faith;" "Changes and Ceremonies;" "Lives of Girls and Women;" "Baptizing;" "Epilogue: The Photographer."

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, 1971. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good +. Second printing. Tight binding. No written inscriptions, tears, chips or creases to pages. Gift inscription signed by author on title page. Dust jacket has some edge wear, mainly at edge of spine and some surface rubbing. A 0.5" tear on front panel near head of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 254 pp.

Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/Dust Jacket Included. First printing, Canadian edition (true first). 8vo, cream cloth, dustjacket. Fine text: very fresh and tight, no owner's name, faintest hint of a bump to the bottom tip of the front board, slight trace of rubbing to fragile boards. Small bookplate of the inscribee on the ffep. The inscribee, Fletcher Markle, well-known Canadian broadcaster of the 60s and 70s, interviewed many Canadian authors. We suspect that the author may have presented this copy to him when being interviewed. Dj is not clipped, very fresh with very light wear to extremities, no tears. A superb copy, the nicest we've seen. The inscription reads: "For Fletcher Markle best wishes Alice Munro". Signed copies of Ms Munro's earlier work are becoming difficult to find. This is her second book and the only novel by the Nobel Prize winner.

2014 - 1st ed stated ("1" in number line) - INSCRIBED - authors debut book - "Fourteen-year-old Audrey martin, with her Poindexter glasses and her head humming the 3/4 meter of gospel music, knows she'll never get out of Kentucky - but when her fingers touch the pion keys, the whole church trembles." - book: very good (like new) - dj: very good (like new) - dj in protective mylar sleeve

1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve

First edition. Spine ends lightly rubbed, spine has small nick, small reddish stain to front cover and rear cover, otherwise very good or better. Lacks dust jacket.

New York, Grove Press, 2022, trade paperback, 272 pp, Advance Uncorrected Proof (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings in bright, pictorial card covers, no dustjacket as issued. The pieces in this collection, written between 1956 and 1961 and including short fiction, a radio play, and a stunning early novel, offer startling insights into Cohens imagination and creative process. Cohen explores themes that would permeate his later work, from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence. ISBN 9780802160478

Paris Editions Denoel, 1992, First Edition. paperback. First edition, Paris 1992, one of 3443 printed. -- Text (the cartoon captions) in FRENCH. -- Softcover, 8.3x10.8 inches, stiff cover with flaps. Condition: near fine (small surface scratch rear cover). -- Nice collectible example of Sempe's classic cartoon work, familiar to New Yorker readers. ISBN 220723861X

First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws, as new and unread. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in page. A pristine copy of this novel from the Pulitzer winning author of "A Visit From the Good Squad". Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.

New York: Periscope-Holliday, 1965. First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine-. First American Edition of two early novels. 8vo: [4],328pp. Publisher's quarter-bound black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, slate grey paper-covered boards; dust jacket, priced $4.75, replicating (separately, on front and back panels) Osbert Lancaster's illustrations for the original wrappers. Near Fine (top edge soiled and stained, gilt a bit faded, gift inscription on fly-leaf); about Fine jacket. Lilley A.10. First collected in 1952 by Rinehart for the Periscope Book Shop and Holliday Bookshop in New York; the unsold stock was reissued in 1965 by Little, Brown, Powell's then American publisher (our copy), with publisher's label pasted to jacket's spine panel. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions… Read More

Random House, 1947. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Book has some toning to the edges; one word previous owner's name to the front free endpaper. The unclipped jacket ($2.50) has light wear to the spine ends /corners and toning to the rear panel. A very good or better copy.

Beacon Press, 2021. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. Uncorrected Galleys. Fine in illustrated wraps. By the author of Corregidora.

Eric Berry: The Polynesian Triangle, 1968 Funk & Wagnalls. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ VERY GOOD UNCLIPPED ORIGINAL DUST JACKET. SCARCE THUS. States First Published in the United States of America 1968. SUMMARY: THE 3,000 YEAR HISTORY OF POLYNESIA AND ITS PEOPLES. ANTHROPOLOGY. A NICE FIND.