Toronto: McC Lelland & Stewart, 1997. True First CDN Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. John Collier (dj). Number line: 1 2 3 4 5 01 00 99 98 97. The story of Austin Fraser, an American minimalist painter and is set in the early part of the 20th century. 340 pp. Beige cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine only. Book has inked out initial top corner ffep, ow it is as new. Book's release date was September 6, 1997. Unclipped ($29.99) DJ has tiny bit of edge wear at head of spine, ow it too is as new. DEDICATION: For Jennifer [over title] Jane Urquhart Sept. 1997 [under author]. A very early signing of a true first edition, first printing, signed in the month of release! Winner of the Governor General's Prize for Fiction. Laid in is publishers letter announcing publication and signing tour. Eminently collectible! Bookseller's Inventory # 154918

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In Rochester, New York, a seventy-five-year-old artist, Austin Fraser, is creating a new series of paintings recalling the details of his life and of the lives of those individuals who have affected him--his peculiar mother, a young Canadian soldier and china painter, a First World War nurse, the well-known American painter Rockwell Kent, and Sara, a waitress from the wilderness mining settlement of Silver Islet, Ontario, who became Austin?s model and mistress. Spanning more than seven decades, from the turn of the century to the mid-seventies, The Underpainter --in range, in the sheer power of its prose, and in its brilliant depiction of landscape and the geography of imagination--is Jane Urquhart 's most accomplished novel to date, with one of the most powerful climaxes in contemporary fiction.

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Bookseller: Lower Beverley Better Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004918
Title: The Underpainter
Author: Urquhart, Jane (SIGNED)
Illustrator: John Collier (dj)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: True First CDN Edition, 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0771086644
ISBN 13: 9780771086649
Publisher: McC Lelland & Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto
Date Published: 1997
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f

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