THE JOURNALS OF SUSANNA MOODIE

New York City, NY: Houghton And Mifflin, 1997. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Houghton And Mifflin, 1997. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. Unpaginated. New Facsimile Edition of the collaborators' 1980 Artist Book, with previously unpublished new material. A brilliant collaboration between two great Canadian artists. Now considered a late-modern classic. The first appearance of the title in this edition in the United States and Canada. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Charles Pachter and Gordon Robertson: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine and blue cloth overboards, as issued. Poems by Margaret Atwood. Art by Charles Pachter. The Memoirs by Charles Pachter and Foreword by David Staines appear in this Edition for the first time, and are supplemented with vintage black-and-white photographic reproductions. Matching blue-dominant pictorial paper slipcase with white titles in front and text on the back. Printed on pristine-white, glossy stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in a lovely Slipcased Format, Margaret Atwood's and Charles Pachter's "The Journals of Susanna Moodie". A dazzling New Edition of one of the landmark poetic cycles by possibly the greatest Canadian novelist and poet of our time. Artist Charles Pachter's vivid, intense, and broodingly original serigraphs are faithfully reproduced and illuminate the poems, making every page scrupulously, meticulously, and breathtakingly beautiful. The poems by Margaret Atwood are based on the journals of the Canadian pioneer Susanna Moodie, and explore what it means to find oneself thrown into a hostile natural environment (what it means to be a pioneer and a woman, which is the same thing, in many ways). The setting allows Atwood to write relentlessly cutting lines about the tension between creating and defining a self against the backdrop of a harsh landscape. The assertion of one's agency on the world as well as oneself, set against the tribulations of loneliness and despair, is especially electrifying. The basis of Atwood's "Alias Grace", one of her greatest novels. An absolute "must-have" title for Margaret Atwood and Charles Pachter collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen upon the author's lovely bookplate (that she neatly pasted at the center of the front free endpaper) by Margaret Atwood. The keepsake-bookplate stands out elegantly against the blue background. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only such bookplate-signed copy of the New Facsimile Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 32 serigraph reproductions. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin". Two of Canada's national treasures. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARGARET ATWOOD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0395880432.