SELECTED STORIES.
by Munro, Alice
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Cadyville, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996., 1996.. Very good. - Octavo, 9-1/2 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in white boards backed with a white cloth spine, titled in gilt on the spine, in a printed purple dust wrapper with a portrait of the author on the rear panel. There is minor foxing to the spine and top edges of the book's covers. The bottom of the dust jacket's front flap is creased. viii, 545 & [4] pages. The edges of the book are lightly foxed and soiled. Very good.
First American edition.
Synopsis
Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 98290
- Title
- SELECTED STORIES.
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
- Date Published
- 1996.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE; ALICE MUNRO; SELECTED STORIES; SHORT STORIES; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; 1ST U.S. EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; FICTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY.
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Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....