Search Results: Books by atwood margaret 1939

London : Chatto & Windus, 2019. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine title-blocked cloth copy in a good if somewhat torn, edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; x, 419 pages ; 25 cm. Notes; Sequel to: The Handmaid's Tale. Contents; Statue -- Precious flower -- Hymn -- The clothes hound -- Van -- Six for dead -- Stadium -- Carnarvon -- Thank tank -- Spring green -- Sackcloth -- Carpitz -- Secateurs -- Ardua Hall -- Fox and cat -- Pearl girls -- Perfect teeth -- Reading room -- Study -- Bloodlines -- Fast and thick -- Heartstopper -- Wall -- The Nellie J. Banks -- Wakeup -- Landfall -- Sendoff -- The thirteenth symposium. Subjects; Theocracy ; Fiction. Surrogate mothers ; Fiction. Man-woman relationships ; Fiction. Misogyny ; Fiction. Women ; Fiction. Government, Resistance to ; Fiction. Pregnancy Social aspects ; Fiction. Dystopias ; Fiction. FICTION Dystopian. FICTION Literary. FICTION Science Fiction… Read More

New York : Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Previous owners inscription remains ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 466 pages; Description: 466 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects: Women --Canada --Friendship --Fiction. Genre: Humorous stories

New York : Morrow, 1980. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 127 pages; Description: 127 p. : col. Ill. ; 30 cm. Subjects: Natural history--Pictorial works.

London : Bloomsbury, 1997. New Edition. Hardcover. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth, with an equally fine, decorated slipcase. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new Physical description; xxiii, [70] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes; At head of title: Margaret Atwood, Charles Pachter. Originally published without memoir and foreword : 1980. This edition first published in Great Britain 1997. Subjects; Moodie, Susanna 1803-1885 Poetry. Frontier and pioneer life Canada ; Poetry. Women authors, Canadian ; Poetry. Women pioneers Canada ; Poetry.

[Toronto]: [Harbourfront Reading Series], 1987. 1st Edition. First Edition. 8pp., 16 x 12 inches. This is the promotional mock-up of ALOUD - A Literary Quarterly that was supposed to be an annual quarterly published by the Harbourfront Reading Series. Due to lack of funding, this quarterly was never published. This issue was edited by Greg Gatenby and featured a cover image of Margaret Atwood as well as a two page excerpt by Atwood "Tropical Botany Cafe Con Carbon" from a "Novel in Progress." The complete two page excerpt text will be provided electronically to the buyer of this article "Novel in Progress", titled in the magazine, "Tropical Botany Cafe Con Carbon". The issue also includes articles about Kenzaburo Oe, Mario Vargas Llosa and Elizabeth Longford. Front and back covers are heavily scuffed. Good condition other than noted.Greg Gatenby from 1973-1975, was an editor at McClelland & Stewart. Since then, he has been serving as the artistic director of the Harbourfront Reading Series and the… Read More

[Toronto]: McClelland and Stewart, [1985]. First Edition. Atwood is one of Canada's best known and most prolific authors, who has been honoured with an unequaled number of national and international awards and honorary degrees. Her dystopian novel set in a future totalitarian America run by religious fundamentalists, where fertile women are enslaved as breeders to the country's leaders, brought her international acclaim and financial success, winning the Governor General's Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Commonwealth Literary Prize, and being shortlisted for the Booker Prize (UK) and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway Prize (Paris). The work was made into a film in 1990, an acclaimed opera by the Royal Danish Opera Society in 2000, and recently was adapted for television. Margaret Atwood has honorary degrees from numerous national and international institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and the Sorbonne. She is a Companion of the Order of… Read More