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Island Hardcover - 1989

by Alistair MacLeod


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There are times even now, when I awake at four o'clock in the morning with the terrible fear that I have overslept; when I imagine that my father is waiting for me in the room below the darkened stairs or that the shorebound men are tossing pebbles against my window while blowing their hands and stomping their feet impatiently on the frozen steadfast earth.

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  • Title Island
  • Author Alistair MacLeod
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Limited
  • Pages 23
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Thistledown Press, Saskatoon
  • Date September 1989
  • ISBN 9780920633663 / 0920633668
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Island

Island

by MACLEOD, ALISTAIR

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Saskatoon: Thistledown Press Ltd., 1989. Book. Illus. by Kath Kornelson Rutherford. Fine. Brown Cloth. Limited Edition. Octavo. Brown cloth, gilt, wrapped in a gilt pictorial dust jacket. Tight binding, revealing a clean interior. Limited edition of 150 copies. A luxurious reprinting of a story that first appeared in the Ontario Review and the The Lost Salt Gift of Blood: New and Selected Stories (but not the original edition of that book)..
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Island - Limited Edition.

by MacLeod, Alistair

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Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1989. Hardcover. fine. 1st limited edition. unpaginated. Thin Octavo. Brown cloth with intricate gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper with gilt detailing and lettering on front cover. Speckled grey endpapers. Text block is tight, clean. Lightly illustrated. Extremely scarce. Fine condition Signed by the author on the limitation at the rear of the book which lists this copy as 138 of 150 published copies. 1989
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by MacLeod, Alistair

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Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1989. Hardcover. very good. 1st limited edition. unpaginated. Thin Octavo. Brown cloth with intricate gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Illustrated dustwrapper with gilt detailing and lettering on front cover. Speckled grey endpapers. Text block is tight, clean. Lightly illustrated. Extremely scarce. very good Signed by the author on the limitation at the rear of the book which lists this copy as 139 of 150 published copies. 1989
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Island

by MacLeod, Alistair

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ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
9780920633663 / 0920633668
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Saskatoon: Thistledown 0-920633--66-8 [0-920633--66-8] 1989, limited edition. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. Excellent condition, clean and tight throughout. Limited run of 150 copies made by Thistledown Press, numbered and signed by author; # 120 and # 143..
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