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THE UNDERPAINTER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, 1997. dj. Hardcover first edition - 4th novel by this highly praised young Canadian writer. Winner of the prestigious Governor General's Award for best novel. ISBN: 0-670-877263.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 23652More details Price: $25.00 -
CHANGING HEAVEN.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Godine, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The true first edition of this highly praised Canadian writer's second novel - a story that moves from the English moors of Emily Bronte to Venice and modern day Toronto. ISBN: 0-87923-895X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 30154More details Price: $18.00 -
THE UNDERPAINTER.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1997.) dj. Hardcover - 4th novel by this highly praised young Canadian writer, one which spans the decades, moving from upstate New York to France during World War I and New York City in the 20's and 30's. Winner of the prestigious Governor General's Award for best novel. ISBN: 0-7710-86644.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40710More details Price: $18.00 -
AWAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Canadian writer, a multi-generational story of a family who fled the famine in Ireland to come to Canada. Co-winner of the Trillium Award. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-670-855049.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (crease on front endpaper.)
Book ID: 50955More details Price: $18.00 -
A MAP OF GLASS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2006.) dj. Hardcover - A novel which interweaves two stories - one set in contemporary Toronto and the other the story of a family in the nineteenth century on the shores of Lake Ontario. 371 pp. ISBN: 1596921706.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 52817More details Price: $15.00 -
A MAP OF GLASS.
Edition: 2nd printing.
San Francisco: McAdam / Cage, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which interweaves two stories - one set in contemporary Toronto and the other the story of a family in the nineteenth century on the shores of Lake Ontario. 371 pp. ISBN: 1596921706.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 55656More details Price: $22.50 -
AWAY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Third novel by this Canadian writer, a multi-generational story of a family who fled the famine in Ireland to come to Canada. Co-winner of the Trillium Award. 356 pp. ISBN: 0-670-855049.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62043More details Price: $21.50 -
HOMESICK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9259.
Condition: Near fine in fine dust jacket (small black spot on first blank page).
Book ID: 18094More details Price: $18.00 -
MY PRESENT AGE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. ISBN: 0-89919-3846.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 18575More details Price: $21.50 -
HOMESICK.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9259.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 62096More details Price: $20.00 -
HOMESICK.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, (1990) dj. Hardcover - Novel by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-89919-9259.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 62097More details Price: $14.50 -
MY PRESENT AGE.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: Macmillan, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this prize-winning writer who in 1986 was named one of Canada's 10 best fiction writers. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-7715-98149.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (book slightly over-opened before half title page)
Book ID: 62514More details Price: $25.00 -
JULIET IN AUGUST (COOL WATER)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Putnam, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, winner of the 2010 Governor GeneralÕs Award for fiction (under its original title of "Cool Water.") This novel tells the interlocking stories of the residents of a small prairie town - "Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of townÑa dusty oasis on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills. ItÕs easy to believe that nothing of consequence takes place there." 324 pp. ISBN: 978-0399157998.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 67634More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GIRL OF O. K. VALLEY: A Romance of the Okanagan.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. L. Burt, (c 1919). Hardcover - A young orphaned immigrant girl arrives at her miserly uncle's ranch in western Canada. "This book will arrest the attention of all those who admire vigorous, wholesome stories with a bit of mystery attached -- and a lucky ending." 297 pp plus 6 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in tan covers with dark brown lettering and decorations (a bit of foxing to the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 66649More details Price: $17.50
