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Dance of the Happy Shades
by Munro, Alice
- Used
- Near Fine
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1968. Undetermined. near fine. 1st edition, 2nd printing. xiv,224pp. Octavo. The novelist Jane Rule's copy, with a bookplate, "From the library of Jane Rule and Helen Sonthoff", to the ffep. Light green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very light bumping to head and base of spine, moderate bumping to top back corner. Spine has slight forward lean. Mild foxing to top and fore-edge of text block. In black pink and green dust jacket, slightly faded and rubbed, now in Mylar. Second state, with gold sticker affixed to front of dust jacket, "Winner of Governor General's Award for Literature 1968". Author's first book a collection of short stories, winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for fiction. 1968
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140444
- Title
- Dance of the Happy Shades
- Author
- Munro, Alice
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Ryerson Press
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Association Copy|Candian Lit.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
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