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Image for Dear Life: Stories -by Alice Munro ( To Reach Japan; Amundesen; Leaving Maverley; Gravel; Haven; Pride; Corrie; Train; In Sight of the Lake; Dolly; The Eye; Night; Voices )

Dear Life: Stories -by Alice Munro ( To Reach Japan; Amundesen; Leaving Maverley; Gravel; Haven; Pride; Corrie; Train; In Sight of the Lake; Dolly; The Eye; Night; Voices )

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $25.49 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 2012, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2012

Seller ID: 163371

ISBN: 0771064861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Fine copy in a Fine dustjacket, could be an unread copy, this contains the following short stories: To Reach Japan; Amundesen; Leaving Maverley; Gravel; Haven; Pride; Corrie; Train; In Sight of the Lake; Dolly; The Eye; Night; Voices; Dear Life, -----"The fourteen stories in this brilliant collection show Alice Munro coming home to southwestern Ontario, with Toronto looming on the horizon. Even 'To Reach Japan,' where a Vancouver mother takes her young daughter across the country by train, ends in Toronto. On that journey, different kinds of passion produce surpris...
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Image for The Love of a Good Woman: Stories By Alice Munro ( Jakarta; Cortes Island; Save the Reaper; The Children Stay; Rich as Stink; Before the Change; My Mother's Dream; The Love of a Good Woman )

The Love of a Good Woman: Stories By Alice Munro ( Jakarta; Cortes Island; Save the Reaper; The Children Stay; Rich as Stink; Before the Change; My Mother's Dream; The Love of a Good Woman )

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $14.13 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 1998, 1st Edition, Later Printing: 1998

Seller ID: 163407

ISBN: 0771066856

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

------------hardcover, a close to Near Fine copy but there is a faint stain on the upper edge of the text block so a Very Good+ example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, a wee bit of fading to the tan portion of the spine, ink name on front blank endpaper, contents include: Jakarta; Cortes Island; Save the Reaper; The Children Stay; Rich as Stink; Before the Change; My Mother's Dream; The Love of a Good Woman, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED --GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE ///
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Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: Thirteen Stories -by Alice Munro

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $49.63 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1974

Seller ID: 163730

ISBN: 0070777608

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example in a Good dustjacket with chips and tears, jacket is now in a hi-quality mylar protector, ink name on front blank endpaper, , contents include: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; Material; How I Met My Husband; Walking on Water; Forgiveness in Families; Tell Me Yes or No; The Found Boat; Executioners; Marrakesh; The Spanish Lady; Winter Wind; Memorial; The Ottawa Valley , any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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Too Much Happiness: Alice Munro

By: Munro, Alice

Price: $21.23 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart ( M&S )/ Douglas and Gibson, 2009, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2009

Seller ID: 163826

ISBN: 0771065299

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, looks new, 10 short stories including: Dimensions; Fiction; Wenlock Edge; Deep-Holes; Free Radicals; Face; Some Women; Child's Play; Wood; Too Much Happiness, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///
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FIVE VOLUMES in Slipcase: Runaway; Friend of My Youth; The Love of a Good Woman; The View from Castle Rock; Hateship, Friendship, Coutrtship, Loveship, Marriage ---by Alice Munro / Penguin Modern Classics series ( Box / Boxed / Slipcased Set )

By: Munro, Alice (introductions By Kim Echlin; Elizabeth Hay; A S Byatt; Janice Kulyk keefer' Bonnie Burnard ) / Penguin Modern Classics Series ( Still in Shrinkwrap - UNOPENED )

Price: $49.63 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Penguin Canada, 2010 (actually 2013 ), 1st Boxed Edition, Printing Unknown: 2013

Seller ID: 161347

ISBN: 0143191438

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: New (see Description )

----------5 volumes (one shipping charge), softcovers, about 5 x 7.75 inches, all are Fine examples, unread, all housed in a Fine slipcase, set is still in the original shrinkwrap -unopened - unread, all in uniform format,---these have a NOBEL PRIZE winner designation on the covers so these were likely issued right after Munro's winning of that prize in 2013, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED --GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE ///
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Image for Essays on Canadian Writing # 66 Winter 1998 / Alice Munro Issue (inc. AM and the Scottish Nostalgic Grotesque; Women & Narration in Friend of My Youth; AM's Agency, The Virginia Barber Correspondence 1976-83; AM in The New Yorker; AM's Carried Away, etc)

Essays on Canadian Writing # 66 Winter 1998 / Alice Munro Issue (inc. AM and the Scottish Nostalgic Grotesque; Women & Narration in Friend of My Youth; AM's Agency, The Virginia Barber Correspondence 1976-83; AM in The New Yorker; AM's Carried Away, etc)

By: Munro, Alice (related) Robert Thacker; Magdalene Redekop; Marianne Micros; Deborah Heller; Joann McCaig; W R Martin, Warren U Ober; Nathalie Foy; Dennis Duffy; Carol L Beran; Ildiko De Papp Carrington

Price: $35.43 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Essays on Canadian Writing / ECW, 1998, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1998

Seller ID: 165069

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

----------softcover, about 5.5w x 8.25h inches, a Very Good+ example, a bit of light wear, 232 pages, contents include: Introduction: AM, Writing "Home": "Seeing this Trickle in Time" by Thacker; The Luxury of Excellence: AM in The New Yorker by Beran; Recasting the Orpheus Myth: AM's "The ChildrenStay" and Jean Anouilh's EURYDICE by Carrington; AM's Agency, The Virginia Barber Correspondence 1976-83 by McCaig; AM and the Scottish Nostalgic Grotesque by Redekop; "A Dark Sort of Mirror": "The Love of a Good Woman" as Pauline Poetic byDuffy; Et in Ontario...
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Image for The Moons of Jupiter -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( Mrs Cross and Mrs Kidd; Labor Day Dinner; Prue; Bardon Bus; Accident; Turkey Season; Dulse; Hard Luck Stories; Visitors; Chaddeleys and Flemings - Connection; The Stone in the Field )

The Moons of Jupiter -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( Mrs Cross and Mrs Kidd; Labor Day Dinner; Prue; Bardon Bus; Accident; Turkey Season; Dulse; Hard Luck Stories; Visitors; Chaddeleys and Flemings - Connection; The Stone in the Field )

By: Munro, Alice (signed without inscription)

Price: $177.43 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: MacMillan, 1982, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1982

Seller ID: 159122

ISBN: 0771597258

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy, in an attractive Very Good dustjacket with a bit of light rubbing and some short closed tears, a nice copy overall especially with the jacket in a hi-quality mylar protector, overall looks close to new, ---signed without inscription by ALICE MUNRO, ----- this contains: Mrs Cross and Mrs Kidd; Labor Day Dinner; Prue; Bardon Bus; Accident; Turkey Season; Dulse; Hard Luck Stories; Visitors; Chaddeleys and Flemings - Connection; The Stone in the Field, The Moons of Jupiter, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo //...
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Image for The Progress of Love: Stories By Alice Munro -a Signed Copy (inc. Lichen; Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux; Miles City, Montana; Fits; Jesse and Meribeth; Eskimo; A Queer Streak; Circle of Prayer; White Dump; The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink )

The Progress of Love: Stories By Alice Munro -a Signed Copy (inc. Lichen; Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux; Miles City, Montana; Fits; Jesse and Meribeth; Eskimo; A Queer Streak; Circle of Prayer; White Dump; The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink )

By: Munro, Alice (signed)

Price: $141.93 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 1986, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing: 1986

Seller ID: 160819

ISBN: 077106666X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------hardcover,a Near Fine copy, a tight square clean copy, one corner is ever so slightly bumped, in a lightly rubbed Near Fine price clipped dustjacket, signed without inscription by Alice Munro, --- this contains: The Progress of Love;. Lichen; Monsieur Les Deux Chapeaux; Miles City, Montana; Fits; Jesse and Meribeth; Eskimo; A Queer Streak; Circle of Prayer; White Dump; The Moon in the Orange Street Skating Rink ), any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED --GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE ///
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Image for Dear Life: Stories -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( To Reach Japan; Amundesen; Leaving Maverley; Gravel; Haven; Pride; Corrie; Train; In Sight of the Lake; Dolly; The Eye; Night; Voices )

Dear Life: Stories -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( To Reach Japan; Amundesen; Leaving Maverley; Gravel; Haven; Pride; Corrie; Train; In Sight of the Lake; Dolly; The Eye; Night; Voices )

By: Munro, Alice (signed)

Price: $425.93 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 2012, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2012

Seller ID: 162110

ISBN: 0771064861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine / Fine copy in a Near Fine / Fine dustjacket, signed without inscription by Alice Munro, scarce signed, this contains the following short stories: To Reach Japan; Amundesen; Leaving Maverley; Gravel; Haven; Pride; Corrie; Train; In Sight of the Lake; Dolly; The Eye; Night; Voices; Dear Life, -----"The fourteen stories in this brilliant collection show Alice Munro coming home to southwestern Ontario, with Toronto looming on the horizon. Even 'To Reach Japan,' where a Vancouver mother takes her young daughter across the country by train, ends in Toronto. On...
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Cocuklar Kaliyor - Oyku -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( Turkish Edition of Love of a Good Woman ) ( çocuklar Kaliyor - Öykü )

By: Munro, Alice (signed), Translated By Cem Alpan

Price: $212.93 CAD

Publisher: Istanbul, Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey: Can Sanat Yayinlari, 2012, 1st Turkish Edition, First Printing (assumed ): 2012

Seller ID: 163334

ISBN: 9750715209

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

-----------softcover, about 5w x 7.5h inches, a Near Fine unread copy,with a Near Fine belly band advert, a wee bit of rubbing to the book abd belly band, signed without inscription by Alice Munro, Honestly can there be any other signed copies out there???, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED --GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE ///
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Amistad De Juventud -by Alice Munro -a Signed Copy ( Spanish Edition of Friend of My Youth )

By: Munro, Alice (signed), Translated By Esperanza Perez Moreno

Price: $212.93 CAD

Publisher: Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain: Debolsillo, 2010, 1st Spanish Edition, First Printing (assumed ): 2010

Seller ID: 163333

ISBN: 8499086675

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine (see description)

-----------softcover, about 5w x 7.5h inches, a Fine unread copy, signed without inscription by Alice Munro, Honestly can there be any other signed copies out there???, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED --GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE ///
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Coming Through Slaughter ---by Michael Ondaatje / House of Anansi ( Hardcover Edition )

By: Ondaatje, Michael

Price: $35.43 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: House of Anansi, 1976, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1976

Seller ID: 165603

ISBN: 0887840523

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good (see description)

------------hardcover, a Good only re-bound ex library copy in a Good only dustjacket with the ever presentsunned spine, usual library stamps and marks in the book, scarce, no stickers on jacket, old tape on the verso, ---"Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of ...
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Running in the Family ---by Michael Ondaatje (the 1st Canadian Edition )

By: Ondaatje, Michael

Price: $14.13 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto:, ON McClelland & Stewart / M&S, 1982, 1st Canadian Edition, First Printing: 1982

Seller ID: 165791

ISBN: 0771068840

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good (see description)

-----------hardcover, a solid Very Good example, foxing to the edges of the text block, bookplate on the verso of the front board from John & Gisela Sommer who were well known lovers of art and THE ARTS in georgetown Ontario, ---in an attractive Good price clipped dustjacket with some light wear and tear and shallow chipping, ---"In Michael Ondaatje’s beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollec...
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Tin Roof: Michael Ondaatje ( # 41 of 50 SIGNED hardcover Copies)( later collected in: Secular Love and The Cinnamon Peeler )

By: Ondaatje, Michael (signed)

Price: $1,632.93 CAD

Publisher: British Columbia, Lantzville, British Columbia: Island Writing Series, 1982, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1982

Seller ID: 165790

ISBN: 0919479936

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good (see description)

----------hardcover, a solid Good exlibrary copy, external wear mainly to the edges and tips with show through to cardboard under the 'cloth', the publisher calls this a cloth binding but it is really more of a composite covering a la faux leather, signed by Ondaatje on the title page as called for, this has been numbered 41 on the copyright page, clearly a very rare edition of a scarce Ondaatje poetic offering, library marks and stamps and pocket in the book, no library marks on the boards, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANT...
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Image for From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Selected By Michael Ondaatje - INTRODUCTION -Signed By Ondaatje ( Pre-Publication Proof of the Introduction )

From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories Selected By Michael Ondaatje - INTRODUCTION -Signed By Ondaatje ( Pre-Publication Proof of the Introduction )

By: Ondaatje, Michael (signed) ? Lester & Orpen Dennys pre-Publication

Price: $63.83 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1990 - PRE-PUBLICATION ( Proof ). 1st Edition, First Printing: 1990

Seller ID: 158105

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+ ( see Description )

-----------softcover, a definite oddity and certainly quite scarce, about 8.5 x 11 inches, coil bound, a Very Good+ example of this pre-publication proof for Ondaatje's introduction for FROM INK LAKE, includes the title page, the contents page for all the stories to be included, and has the 5+ page introduction by MO, signed and inscribed by Ondaatje in his typical near indecipherable script, I think the inscription is " to ???, ???? best (?) Michael Ondaatje", any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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ALPHABETIQUE: 26 Characteristic Fictions -by Molly Peacock -a Signed Copy ( Illustrations / Illustrated By Kara Kosaka )

By: Peacock, Molly (signed)

Price: $35.43 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart ( M&S ), 2014, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2014

Seller ID: 164850

ISBN: 0771070152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see desciption)

----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Near Fine dustjacket, looks new, price clipped, signed and inscribed by Peacock "December 2, 2014 For Cathy Happy Birthday A-Z! Molly Peacock, 141 pages, colour illustrations, ---"Take the sumptuousness of Molly Peacock's own #1 bestselling The Paper Garden, the extraordinary creative variety of The Bedside Book of Birds, and the cat-nip-for-language-geeks appeal of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, and wrap it around tales rich with wisdom and humanity, and you get Alphabetique: the most gorgeous gift book of the season. -- Molly Peacock has writt...
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Image for Hugh MacLennan's National Trilogy: Mapping a Canadian Identity ( 1940 - 1950 ) -a Signed Copy / Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 53

Hugh MacLennan's National Trilogy: Mapping a Canadian Identity ( 1940 - 1950 ) -a Signed Copy / Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 53

By: Peepre-Bordessa, Mari (signed) / Edited By Pekka Suvanto / Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae Dissertationes Humanarum Litterarum 53 ( Hugh MacLennan related)

Price: $28.33 CAD

Publisher: Helsinki, Finland, Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1990, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1990

Seller ID: 144518

ISBN: 9514106148

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------trade paperback, a Near Fine copy with a bit of very light rubbing in a lightly rubbed Very Good+ dustjacket, generically inscribed and signed by the author, 236 pages, chapters include: Canadian Identity and a National Literature; MacLennan's Voyage of Discovery - a search for Canada; Barometer Rising -An Explosion Out of Colonialism; Two Solitudes - A Study in Duality; The Precipice - A Puritan parable; Readers and Critics -The Audience Responds; Notes; Bibliography, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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All the Bees and All the Keys ---by James Reaney, Music By John Beckwith, Drawings By Rudy McToots / Press Porcepic

By: Reaney, James; Music By John Beckwith; Drawings By Rudy McToots / Press Porcepic

Price: $21.23 CAD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Press Porcepic, 1976, 1st Edition, First Printing: 1976

Seller ID: 155580

ISBN: 0888780591

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover,about 9.25 x 12.25 inches, a Near Fine copy in a lightly rubbed Near Fine glassine dustjacket, a play with accompanying music, charming illustrations by McToots, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ---by Mordecai Richler ( Released for the movie Starring Richard Dreyfuss )

By: Richler, Mordecai

Price: $26.91 CAD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart ( M&S ), 1974, 1st Canadian hardcover Edition, First Printing: 1974

Seller ID: 160628

ISBN: 0771074972

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

-----------hardcover, a Near Fine example, in a Good to Very Good dustjacket with a bit of light edge wear and some small chips and flakes, a wee bit of sunning to the spine of the jacket, some flaking to the gold lettering on the spine of the jacket (predominately to the D & U in Duddy ), ---the 1959 Andre Deutsch edition seems to be more common, Duddy was released in Canada in 1959 but through the UK publisher Deutsch, this is the first home grown hardcover edition which was released to coincide with the release of the Richard Dreyfuss movie, the movie is a very fine adaptation , Dreyfuss i...
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The Badger Confession -by J A Ricketts ( Book 2 of the BADGER Trilogy )

By: Ricketts, J A

Price: $14.13 CAD

Publisher: St John, New Brunswick, St John's, NL: Flanker Press, 2010, 1st Edition, First Printing: 2010

Seller ID: 152364

ISBN: 1897317662

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine (see description)

----------softcover, about 6 x 9 inches, a Near Fine copy, unread, review copy slip laid in, ---The loggers' strike of 1959 is over. Premier Joey Smallwood has decertified the International Woodworkers of America, branding them as outlaws and traitors for good measure. Many of Badger's residents have scattered to the winds under the weight of a feeling of guilt, shame, and loss. The unsolved murder of Constable William Moss has left an indelible mark in the history books of Newfoundland and Labrador . The Riot is over, but not for the town of Badger . The Badger Confession is the sequel t...
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Category: Canadian Literature Fiction