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A GOOD HOUSE.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Henry Holt, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by two collections of short stories), winner of the 1999 Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award. Begins in Ontario in 1949 during the height of the post-war boo, a year filled with promise, and follows a single family over the next fifty years. 307 pp. Dustjacket praise from Alice Munro (to whom Burnard has been compared), Carol Shields and Elizabeth Strout. SIGNED by the author on title page. ISBN: 0-8050-64958.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 31009More details Price: $35.00 -
THE POLISHED HOE.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 79913More details Price: $24.50 -
PILGRIM.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Harper Collins, (2000.). First edition - Set in 1912, this novel by an award-winning Canadian writer echoes one of his themes of the exploration of the lives of people vulnerable to mainstream institutions, In this novel (as in his early 'Butterfly Plague'), the institution is psychiatry and this is an account of a battle between Carl Jung, "self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious", and Pilgrim - the man who cannot die, who "claims to be ageless and sexless, having lived as both male and female for four thousand years." Shortlisted for Giller Prize. 486 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 60891More details Price: $24.00 -
PILGRIM.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set in 1912, this novel by an award-winning Canadian writer echoes one of his themes of the exploration of the lives of people vulnerable to mainstream institutions, In this novel (as in his early 'Butterfly Plague'), the institution is psychiatry and this is an account of a battle between Carl Jung, "self-professed mystical scientist of the unconscious", and Pilgrim - the man who cannot die, who "claims to be ageless and sexless, having lived as both male and female for four thousand years." Shortlisted for Giller Prize. 486 pp. ISBN: 0-06-019197x.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (prev owner's name)
Book ID: 47571More details Price: $18.00 -
RUNAWAY: Stories.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (2004) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (edges of boards bumped, light soiling to back cover of dj)
Book ID: 79959More details Price: $24.50 -
RUNAWAY: Stories.
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.
Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 46095More details Price: $15.00 -
RUNAWAY: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43359More details Price: $21.50 -
RUNAWAY: Stories.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories, winner of the 2004 Giller Prize for best fiction by a Canadian author (the second time Munro was awarded this prize.) 335 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-4281x.
Condition: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (crinkling to lower edge of front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 47142More details Price: $18.50 -
MERCY AMONG THE CHILDREN
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Arcade Publishing, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Highly praised novel by this Canadian writer; co-winner of the prestigious 2000 Giller Prize with Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost as well as short- listed for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Alistair MacLeod called this 'one of the great novels of our time.' 371 pp. ISBN: 1-559705868.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. (slight spine slant.)
Book ID: 34682More details Price: $18.00