Search Results: The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories by Margaret Laurence

New Canadian Library, 1970-01-01. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 0.7500 in x 7.2500 in x 4.5000 in.

Canada: McClelland & Stewart New Canadian Library, 1970. Square tight copy with a 2" corner crease on front cover, a crease on spine, some color fading on spine and back cover, and covers show wear from rubbing. A collection of author's short stories set in contemporary West Africa.. 5th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good -.

Brand: New Canadian Library, 1970-01-01. Reprinted. paperback. Used: Good.

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 4x0x7. New Canadian Library N70. Spine creased, scuffs. Laurence's first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the country's new freedom.

McClelland & Stewart, Publishers, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Minor chipping to dustjacket, now wrapped in protective sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Lodon MacMillan & Co Ltd, 1963. Book. Near Fine. Hard Cover with Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition one small chip and a small closed tear to head of DJ..

The Tomorrow-Tamer and Other Stories, Laurence, Margaret. Published by Macmillan, London, 1963. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall. 244pp. Red boards. In very good condition with tiny inked name to free endpaper, a few light pencil notations and light toning. Jacket is clipped with tiny chips to spine, rubbing to corners.
The ten stories gathered together in "The Tomorrow-Tamer" are Margaret Laurence's first published fiction The stories center on individual Ghanaians and Europeans and their lives during Ghana's independence in 1957. Jean Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature.

London, Eng: Macmillan and Company, 1963. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. British First. Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket particularly at top and bottom of spine and at corners; otherwise a solid, clean copy in collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve..

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1963. (CAD) First edition (1963). Owner's name and notation in pen to end paper, no other markigns, slight spine slant, Good used copy in Acceptable dust jacket with edge chips and tears and staning to back side of the DJ; Dj is in mylar sleeve. Red haedcover boards, 244pp. 10 short stories including "The Tomorrow-Tamer," the title story for Margaret Laurence's West African collection of 1963, which was written in Vancouver, British Columbia, published in Prism International in the fall of 1961, and awarded the President's Medal of Excellence from the University of Western Ontario for the year's best Canadian short story. This hardcover collection was Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening… Read More

MacMillan, 1963., 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Dust Jacket Included. First UK edition. 8vo, red cloth, dustjacket. Fine text in VG- unclipped dj with minimal wear, a couple of closed tears, area of scuffing/soiling to spine.

New Canadian Library, 1970-01-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!