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ALIAS GRACE
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Doubleday, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of her day, convicted of involvement in the murder of her employer. ISBN: 0-385-475713.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (glue remnants under dj flaps)
Book ID: 22725More details Price: $12.50 -
SECOND WORDS: Selected Critical Prose.
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Beacon Press, (1984.). First edition - Fifty essays, lectures, and reviews written over a 20 year period -including selections on Al Purdy, Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Erica Jong, Nadine Gordimer, E. L. Doctorow, Mordecai Richler, African American women writers, human rights and the woman's movement, Tillie Olsen, Sylvia Plath, Marie-Claire Blais, Northrup Frye, and much more. Index. 444 pp. ISBN: 0-807063592.
Condition: Fine condition.
Book ID: 35976More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BLIND ASSASSIN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Doubleday, 2000. dj. Hardcover - A complex and multi-layered story, set in the 30s and 40s - but also including a science fiction novel (the title 'The Blind Assassin' refers to this novel) within the novel. Winner of the Dashiell Hammett award and the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-385-475721.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 25722More details Price: $14.50 -
BODILY HARM.
Edition: First American printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Atwood's fifth novel, described as 'by turns, comic, satiric, relentless and terrifying,' this is the story of a woman's attempt to come to grips with a series of rude shocks that overturned her world and her expectations. ISBN: 0-671-441531.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (old price on front endpaper, prev owner's last name, price-clipped dj.)
Book ID: 26281More details Price: $14.00 -
BODILY HARM
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page. Atwood's fifth novel, described as 'by turns, comic, satiric, relentless and terrifying,' this is the story of a woman's attempt to come to grips with a series of rude shocks that overturned her world and her expectations. ISBN: 0-671-441531.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark on bottom of textblock)
Book ID: 26282More details Price: $50.00 -
TRUE STORIES.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1982.). SIGNED first edition - Her ninth collection of poems, perhaps her darkest - 'the true story is vicious/ and multiple and untrue/ after all' - and the poems often contradict the implicit ideas inthe title - 'Christmas Carols' begins 'Children do not always mean/ hope. To some they mean despair.' Originally issued as a trade paperback in Canada in 1981, and only issued in wrappers in the UK also. SIGNED on the title page. Cover photograph (on both front and back) by Graeme Gibson. 103 pp. ISBN: 0-224-020714.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 30178More details Price: $60.00 -
BODILY HARM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - Atwood's fifth novel, described as 'by turns, comic, satiric, relentless and terrifying,' this is the story of a woman's attempt to come to grips with a series of rude shocks that overturned her world and her expectations. ISBN: 0-671-441531.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dust jacket (rem mark)
Book ID: 31266More details Price: $17.50 -
BODILY HARM
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of Atwood's fifth novel, described as 'by turns, comic, satiric, relentless and terrifying,' this is the story of a woman's attempt to come to grips with a series of rude shocks that overturned her world and her expectations. ISBN: 0-7710-08120.
Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (bookplate hidden under dj flap, staple holes on front endpaper, minor wear to dj.)
Book ID: 32005More details Price: $24.50 -
SURVIVAL: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Edition: First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with the hardcover first issue.
Toronto: Anansi, 1972. First edition - A survey of Canadian literature from Moody to Blais, Purdy to Gibson to Margaret Laurence and more - entertaining and provocative. Originally planned as a teacher's guide, this is much more in its frank and personal remarks - the back cover refers to it as the 'most startling book ever written about Canadian literature.' The title refers to what Atwood calls the central preoccupations of Canadian poetry and fiction: survival and victims. Resources, index. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-88784-6130.
Condition: Very good conditon: a tight clean copy, some rubbing to the black covers, as is rather common with this title.
Book ID: 33374More details Price: $25.00 -
SELECTED POEMS: 1965 - 1975.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1987.). Originally published in the US in 1976, this was being re-issued simultaneously with a volume of her poems from 1976-86. Includes selections drawn from 'The Circle Game', 'The Animals from That Country', the entire long poem of 'The Journals of Susanna Moody', etc. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-395-404223.
Condition: Very good in stiff illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 35571More details Price: $14.50 -
THE JOURNALS OF SUSANNA MOODIE.
Edition: First thus.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully illustrated edition of these interrelated poems - first issued in a fine press limited edition of only 120 copies. This edition includes a new foreword by David Staines, and a memoir by Charles Pachter. ISBN: 0-395-880432.
Condition: Fine in a fine slipcase.
Book ID: 18107More details Price: $25.00 -
PEOPLE WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE / LES GENS PEU ORDINAIRES.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Viking Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of full page black and white photographs of more than one hundred Canadians who have excelled in the arts, as entrepreneurs, as athletes and more - including Leonard Cohen, Wayne Gretzky, k.d. lang, Yousouf Karsh and many others. A bilingual edition with brief introductions to each person in both English and French. A project of the Photographers and Friends United Against Aids. List of photographers with notes on each. Large format, approx 9 1/2 inches by 12 inches. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-670-864757.
Condition: Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket (a bit of shelfwear, remainder dot on bottom edge, but otherwise a clean, tight copy)
Book ID: 60186More details Price: $25.00 -
GRANTA 31, Spring 1990: THE GENERAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta, 1990. First edition - A paperback magazine of new writing, This issue includes stories and articles by authors such as Richard Ford, Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jonathan Raban, Margaret Atwood and more. 255 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: # 0-14-013431x.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some light toning to the covers)
Book ID: 67394More details Price: $11.50 -
THREE SHORT NOVELS: The Crazy Hunter, The BridegroomÕs Body, Decision
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Penguin, (1982). Short novels originally published in 1938 and 1940, reprinted in this edition with an introduction by Margaret Atwood. x, 262 pp. ISBN: 0-811211495.
Condition: Very good (toning to pages and inside covers)
Book ID: 89064More details Price: $10.00