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BEYOND FORGET: Rediscovering the Prairies.
Edition: First US printing.
San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - he grew up in the Canadian West and in 1985 he revisited the Prairie Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. He includes accounts of the various colonies of immigrants, the treatment of Indians, and of the countryside itself. Index. viii, 260 pp. ISBN: 0-871567059.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (corners bumped, bookstore line on top edge)
Book ID: 68251More details Price: $15.00 -
LUNA-VERSE: Love Poems.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, not issued in hardcover.
Toronto: Aya Press, 1984. First edition - By the poet laureate of Ottawa. Aya Press Poetry series number 6. ISBN: 0-920544-38x.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 22928More details Price: $12.00 -
FIFTEEN DOGS: An Apologue.
Edition: First edition, fifth printing, a trade paperback.
Condition: Very near fine - appears unread, but part of a poem has been printed inside the back cover.
Book ID: 83192More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CURE FOR DEATH BY LIGHTNING .
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996 dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised Canadian writer's first novel, second book.Shortlisted for Canada's Giller Prize for Fiction. An offbeat coming of age novel set against the backdrop of a farm in remote Turtle Valley, British Columbia. INSCRIBED on the title page. Laid in is a bookmark of handmade paper also SIGNED by the author. Index to more than 40 remedies and recipes. 294 pp. Dust jacket art by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-395-271846.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64759More details Price: $30.00 -
A RECIPE FOR BEES .
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harmony, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised Canadian writer's second novel. Finalist for the Giller Prize for fiction. Illustrated with photographs. ISBN: 0-609-604511.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 25406More details Price: $19.50 -
A RECIPE FOR BEES .
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised Canadian writer's second novel. Finalist for the Giller Prize for fiction. Illustrated with photographs. 311 pp. ISBN: 0-676971008.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 87653More details Price: $24.50 -
ITALIA PERVERSA: Part one: Stalin's Orphans
Edition: First edition.
London: Quartet, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in a remarkable trilogy that chronicles the histories of Piero Orsini and Madame Castigny de Nichel.. . . 'a complex story of jealousy, vendetta, memory and terror, in which the characters are uncompromising, always driven to 'see passion in the end.'. ISBN: 0-7043-24946.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (binding flaw to front endpaper.)
Book ID: 22596More details Price: $20.00 -
ITALIA PERVERSA: Part Two, The Mosque.
Edition: First edition.
London: Quartet, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - The second volume in a remarkable trilogy - one called 'a piece of infinite fascination.'. ISBN: 0-7043-2508x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22597More details Price: $20.00 -
WHORE.
Edition: First US printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: Grove Press / Black Cat, (2005). First edition - Canadian author's semi-autobiographical first novel, a look at the world's oldest profession by a writer who worked within it. "Cynthia," as the nameless narrator calls herself professionally, is a French-Canadian Catholic who escapes her strict upbringing and schooling by the nuns, and moves to Montreal where she finds work in a bar. One day she answers the ad of an escort agency, and so she is found by new calling. Translated from the French by Bruce Benderson. Finalist for both the Prix MŽdicis and the Prix FŽmina. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-802170021.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 79690More details Price: $25.00 -
LIFE BEFORE MAN.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1979) dj. Hardcover - Her fourth novel, a story of three people, stranded behind walls of their own making, forced to make choices after the rules have changed. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-08074.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 88497More details Price: $20.00 -
WILDERNESS TIPS.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of this collection of ten short stories (Atwood's third collection.) 247 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-08198.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 77513More details Price: $25.00 -
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: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15551More details Price: $15.00 -
BLUEBEARD'S EGG and Other Stories
Edition: First American edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains two stories not included in the Canadian edition. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-385-40424x.
Condition: Near fine in a good only dust jacket (tears and some creasing to corners of folds of dj.)
Book ID: 45514More details Price: $16.50 -
THE ROBBER BRIDE
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Doubleday, 1993. First edition - An "intricate and subversive novel" by this award-winning writer. This novel won the Trillium Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize . 542 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 20648More details Price: $21.50 -
BLUEBEARD'S EGG and Other Stories
Edition: First American edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains two stories not included in the Canadian edition. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-385-40424x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (1 closed tear to back cover.)
Book ID: 4475More details Price: $25.00 -
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 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 a fine dust jacket (remainder mark)
Book ID: 23399More details Price: $20.00 -
THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2009) dj. Hardcover - The second book in her MaddAddam trilogy, sequel to Oryx and Crake, and like that book set in a near future in which the world has been devastated by a global pandemic which set across the earth like a waterless flood. While there appear to be few human survivors, gene-spliced life is beginning to proliferate. 434 pp. ISBN: 978-0771008443.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83071More details Price: $21.50 -
BLUEBEARD'S EGG and Other Stories
Edition: First American edition.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - Contains 2 stories not included in the Canadian edition. ISBN: 0-385-40424x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 20608More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUEBEARD'S EGG
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of Atwood's second collection of short stories. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-08082.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (short closed tears on upper edge of front cover of dj, sunning to spine of dj.)
Book ID: 13838More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
THE ROBBER BRIDE
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition. An "intricate and subversive novel" by this award-winning writer. This novel won the Trillium Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. 546 pp. ISBN: 0-77100821X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)
Book ID: 77080More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
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: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 10655More details Price: $18.00 -
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: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 52025More details Price: $21.50 -
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 BLIND ASSASSIN.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2000) dj. Hardcover first edition - 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. 521 pp. ISBN: 0-771008635.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82978More details Price: $30.00 -
BLUEBEARD'S EGG
Edition: First edition.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of Atwood's second collection of short stories. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-7710-08082.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83048More details Price: $35.00 -
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 -
CAT'S EYE
Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).
New York: Doubleday, 1989. dj. Hardcover - Novel short-listed for the Booker Prize. ISBN: 0-385-260075.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41335More details Price: $12.50