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By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $60.00 $48.00
Publisher: Hay Festival Press: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200662
ISBN: 0954716809
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. One of 1000 copies. Signed by author without inscription. Near fine. 2004 Small Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 54 pp. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation. CONTENTS: Bottle -- It's not easy being half-divine -- King Log in exile -- Take charge -- Thylacine ragout -- Post-colonial -- Faster -- Nightingale -- Bottle II. Keywords: MARGARET ATWOOD BOTTLE CANADIAN LITERATURE SHORT STORIES View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Inc.: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2266860
ISBN: 0771008635
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Ink gift note on front endpaper, jacket spine a bit faded. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 521, [3] pp. 8vo. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, inspiration for the Hulu original television adaptation. Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the Hammett Prize, Time's best novel of the year 2000, and one of Time's top 100 novels since 1923. Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. For the past twenty-five ... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 1996
Edition: First US Edition
Seller ID: 2294407
ISBN: 0385475713
Condition: Near Fine
First U.S. edition. 1996 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 468 pp. 8vo. Inspiration for the CBC miniseries. In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; ot... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: Nan A. Talese / Doubleday: 2019
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2295088
ISBN: 0385545592
Condition: Fine
First edition. A fine copy. 2019 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 431 pp. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and unce... View more info
By: Atwood, Margaret
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: Bloomsbury: 2003
Edition: First UK Edition
Seller ID: 2302512
ISBN: 0747562598
Condition: Near Fine
First UK edition. Minor general wear. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 378 pp. From the author of The Handmaid's Tale, a Hulu original television adaptation. Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey--with the help of the gre... View more info
By: Bellow, Saul
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2291699
ISBN: 006015179X
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Jacket spine ends lightly stained, top edge lightly foxed. 1984 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Stories by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist deal with a divorced woman and her lovers, a bankrupt musicologist, an eccentric young man, a boy and his father, and family relationships. View more info
By: Duncan, Norman
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company: 1904
Seller ID: 2203554
Condition: Near Fine
Pencil name on verso of front free endpaper. 1904 Hard Cover. 327, [4] pp. 8vo. A novel by the Canadian author telling the story of a physicians travels along the coastal region of Labrador. KEYWORDS: HISTORICAL FICTION CANADA CANADIAN View more info
By: Montgomery, L.M.
Price: $12.00 $9.60
Publisher: A.L. Burt Company: 1927
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2280905
Condition: Very Good
Reissue. Pencil writing on front endpapers. 1927 Hard Cover. 310 pp. By the author of Anne of Green Gables. Emily's Quest is a novel and the last of the Emily trilogy by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Emily knows she's going to be a great writer. She also knows that she and her childhood sweetheart, Teddy Kent, will conquer the world together. But when Teddy leaves home to pursue his goal to become an artist at the School of Design in Montreal, Emily's world collapses. With Teddy gone, Emily agrees to marry a man she doesn't love... as she tries to banish all thoughts of Teddy. In her heart, Emily must... View more info
By: Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud)
Price: $20.00 $16.00
Publisher: The Ryerson Press: 1949
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2285243
Condition: Very Good
5th printing of the first Canadian edition, which was released nearly 30 years after the American edition due to Montgomery's deteriorating relationship with L.C. Page. She died just as the Canadian editions of this and her subsequent books were being released. Lacks jacket. Minor wear to corners. 1949 Hard Cover. viii, 326 pp. Green cloth, black titles. The third in Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. New adventures lie ahead as Anne Shirley packs her bags, waves good-bye to childhood, and heads for Redmond College. With old friend Prissy Grant waiting in the bustling city of Kingsport ... View more info
By: Montgomery, Lucy Maud; Shapiro, Ellen S.
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Gramercy Books: 1986
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2285426
ISBN: 0517605171
Condition: Very Good
Television tie-in edition. Ink and pencil gift notes on front endpaper, pages lightly toned. 1986 Hard Cover. xvi, 634 pp. 8vo. Includes reproductions of illustrations from the early 1900s editions of each work, and an introduction by Ellen S. Shapiro. Anne (with an 'e' of course) starts out as a mistake. The elderly Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert had planned on adopting a boy to help Matthew with the chores on their Prince Edward Island farm. What are they to do with the red-haired, high-spirited girl who arrives instead? Anne Shirley, with her boundless imagination and heart, slowly brings joy... View more info
By: Munro, Alice
Price: $35.00 $28.00
Publisher: Douglas Gibson/McClelland and Stewart: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201638
ISBN: 0771066856
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Fine. Near Fine. 1998 Hard Cover. 399 pp. A collection of stories by the Nobel Prize winning Canadian author known for her short fiction. In eight new stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies her great themes--the vagaries of love, the passion that leads down unexpected paths, the chaos hovering just under the surface of things, and the strange, often comical desires of the human heart. Time stretches out in some of the stories: a man and a woman look back forty years to the summer they met--the summer, as it turns out, that the true nature of their lives was revealed... View more info
By: Ringuet; Sirois, Antoine (afterword)
Price: $4.00 $3.20
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart: 1989
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2269966
ISBN: 0771099959
Condition: Very Good
Reprint. Lightly rubbed. 1989 Mass Market Paperback. One of the most important books to come out of Quebec, Thirty Acres traces the course of one man’s life as he enters into the age-old rhythms of the land and of the seasons. At the same time, it is a novel on a grand social scale, spanning and documenting the tumultuous half-century in which a new, industrial urban society crowded out Quebec’s traditional rural one. View more info
By: Sakamoto, Kerri
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 1998
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282388
ISBN: 0676971261
Condition: Fine
First edition. A fine copy. 1998 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. Author's first novel. When the beautiful Chisako and her lover are found murdered in a park, members of the small Ontario community must finally acknowledge certain inescapable truths. Set in the 1970s, The Electrical Field reaches deep into the past to explore the dire legacy of the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the war. View more info
By: Sakamoto, Kerri
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282389
ISBN: 0676975119
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. A very nice copy. 2003 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 279 pp. From the award-winning author of The Electrical Field comes this riveting story of love, guilt, and complicity in the context of war. Miyo and her father, Masao, live a reclusive life in Toronto. When Masao dies, Miyo discovers he harbored a secret life, including a previous wife and child. Miyo travels to Tokyo to meet Hana, her half-sister (who is obsessed with their father's war history) and is shocked to learn he was a member of the Special Attack Forces-a kamikaze. But if these pilots' ... View more info
By: Service, Robert W. [William]
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: Barse & Hopkins: 1916
Seller ID: 2291072
Condition: Very Good
A few faint spots on boards, some purple rubbed away from cloud design (very common with this edition). 1916 Hard Cover. 192 pp. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt, green, black, and white image on front board, soldier vignette on spine, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Color frontispiece and plates by Charles L. Wrenn, with captioned tissue guards. A collection of poetry by the well-known writer famous for his works about the Yukon Territory, this compilation includes a number of poems about World War I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer, so... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $75.00 $60.00
Publisher: Stoddart: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196943
ISBN: 0773720928
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1987 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 313 pp. 8vo. A mystery by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $30.00 $24.00
Publisher: Viking: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196944
ISBN: 0670873926
Condition: Near Fine
First U.S. edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1997 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 339 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. A detailed look at the ordinary life of Larry Weller between 1977 and 1997 follows the floral designer as he deals with the rapidly changing world and two marriages and two divorces along the way. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $175.00 $140.00
Publisher: The Borealis Press: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196155
ISBN: 0919594271
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1977 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 81 pp. Carol Shields' critical examination of the work of Susanna Moodie is divided into three chapters: Mrs. Moodie and the Complex Personality, Mrs. Moodie and Sexual Reversal, Mrs. Moodie and the Social Structure. Following the text is a bibliography that includes many works of interest to those studying Canadian literature. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197968
ISBN: 0921368135
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1990 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 100 pp. A stage play by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $85.00 $68.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197974
ISBN: 0070923779
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Spine head and foot lightly pushed, minor transfer on front endpaper. 1980 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 216 pp. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $500.00 $400.00
Publisher: The Borealis Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196153
ISBN: 0919594085
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Handwritten postcard written to previous owner (in different ink than the title page signature) signed by Shields and dated 29/5/02 laid in. An interesting combination of early and late signatures - the author passed away in 2003. 1972 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 60 pp. Author's first book. A collection of poetry by the American-born Canadian author most well-know for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. This work was never published in the United States. View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $250.00 $200.00
Publisher: The Borealis Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196154
ISBN: 0919594271
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Wrappers slightly toned. 1974 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 59 pp. The second collection of poetry by the American-born Canadian author most well-know for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Stone Diaries. Keywords: CAROL SHIELDS INTERSECT POEMS POETRY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Random House: 1992
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2196945
ISBN: 0394222180
Condition: Near Fine
First edition (Canadian). Signed by author without inscription on title page. Jacket lightly toned. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. x, 366 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. 'The Republic of Love marries a wide diversity of elements, mythical and modern, ironic and moving, exhilarating and melancholy!a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.' Times Literary Supplement 'The Republic of Love is a hymn to the pleasures and pains, the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discov... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $40.00 $32.00
Publisher: Random House: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197970
ISBN: 0394221001
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Page ridge faintly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 199 pp. A collection of twelve short stories by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. “Milk Bread Beer Ice” is a road trip shared by a husband and wife who no longer communicate through meaningful dialogue. Fifty-year-old “Hazel” is forced to enter an alien workplace after the sudden death of her husband. In “Today Is the Day,” the village women gather together for their annual r... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Random House Canada: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197975
ISBN: 0679311793
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2002 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 321 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happin... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Fourth Estate: 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197976
ISBN: 1841151645
Condition: Near Fine
First UK edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2000 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 249 pp. 8vo. A collection of short stories by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize). All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife's lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptio... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Blizzard Publishing: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197980
ISBN: 0921368305
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Rear wrapper a bit toned. 1993 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 61 pp. A play by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. Keywords: CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA THEATRE THEATER PLAYS DRAMA PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CAROL SHIELDS THIRTEEN HANDS SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: Harbourfront Reading Series: 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197981
Condition: Near Fine
First edition - limited to 550 copies, including 150 signed and numbered by the author. This copy is the latter, hand-numbered 83 and signed by Shields on the limitation page. 1997 Trade Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. 10 pp. A brief work by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. Keywords: CANADIAN LITERATURE CANADA PULITZER PRIZE WINNER CAROL SHIELDS FLATTIES SIGNED FIRST EDITION View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $125.00 $100.00
Publisher: Fourth Estate: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2197983
ISBN: 1857021541
Condition: Near Fine
First UK edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1993 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 361 pp. 8vo. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the prolific Canadian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. 'The Stone Diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitche... View more info
By: Shields, Carol
Price: $50.00 $40.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2201019
ISBN: 0070825475
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. 1977 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 213 pp. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries. Charleen, a divorcee eking out a living as a poet and part-time assistant for an obscure scientific journal, returns home to attend her mother's wedding, and is caught up in a series of unexpected--and terrifying--events. Keywords: CAROL SHIELDS CANADIAN LITERATURE CONTEMPORARY FICTION BOX GARDEN PULITZER PRIZE View more info
