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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: $12.50 -
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: 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 -
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 -
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: $16.00 -
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: Very near fine in near fine dust jacket (crinkling to lower edge of front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 47142More details Price: $19.50 -
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 -
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83085More details Price: $30.00 -
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN.
Edition: First printing.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of eight short stories by this Nobel prize winning Canadian writer. This collection won Canada's Giller Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States. 340 pp. ISBN: 0-375-403957.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dust jacket (upper corner of front endpaper torn, signs of being read)
Book ID: 83086More details Price: $20.00 -
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 a fine dust jacket (previous owner's name, dust jacket has a sticker announcing "Giller Prize finalist" although this went on to win the prize)
Book ID: 83088More details Price: $27.50 -
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: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 83089More details Price: $35.00 -
THE BOOK OF SECRETS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Picador, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which opens in 1988, with retired schoolteacher Pius Fernandes discovering the 1913 diary of a British colonial administrator, which draws him into the history of the Asian community of East Africa and the liaisons, secrets, and feelings of its people. Winner of the first Giller Prize in - the jury citation called it Part generational history, part detective story, part social chronicle, the novel is a living tapestry to join the past to the present." Glossary. Map frontispiece. 337 pp. ISBN: 0-312140835.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84574More details Price: $21.50 -
REPRODUCTION.
Edition: Uncorrected proof for the first US edition, issued as a trade paperback.
Condition: Fine in printed blue wrapppers.
Book ID: 84207More details Price: $95.00 -
REPRODUCTION.
Edition: Uncorrected proof for the first US edition, issued as a trade paperback.
Condition: Fair condition in printed blue wrapppers (crinkling from dampness to the fore-edge of many pages, no spine creasing)
Book ID: 84317More details Price: $30.00