The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Signed with 3 letters)
by MacLeod, Alistair
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Previous owner's inscription on top corner of 1st. Fly leaf and small paper address label to front paste-down. Also a very l/Dust jacket is not priced clipped and in very good to fine condition
- Seller
-
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Three hand written letters to a Gary Baudoux with mailing envelopes. 1st. one page letter on University of Windsor letterhead, dated May 18th, 1977 thanks Baudoux for his kind comments and discusses a time to meet and sign his book in Inverness, Cape Breton. The 2nd is a two-page letter from Inverness and dated Nov. 24 1991 discussing MacLeod's travel plans and a time for him to give a talk to Baudoux's students and the chance of it being paid for by the Canada Council. The 3rd.is a two-page letter from Inverness and dated Feb. 24, 1992 thanking Baudoux and his colliage for a very enjoyable visit.
Synopsis
Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936 and raised among an extended family in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He still spends his summers in Inverness County, writing in a clifftop cabin looking west towards Prince Edward Island. In his early years, to finance his education he worked as a logger, a miner, and a fisherman, and writes vividly and sympathetically about such work. His early studies were at the Nova Scotia Teachers College, St. Francis Xavier, the University of New Brunswick and Notre Dame, where he took his Ph.D. He has also taught creative writing at the University of Indiana. Working alongside W.O. Mitchell, he was an inspiring teacher to generations of writers at the Banff Centre. In the spring of 2000, MacLeod retired from the University of Windsor, Ontario, where he was a professor of English. He has published two internationally acclaimed collections of short stories: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986). In 2000, these two books, accompanied by two new stories, were published in a single-volume edition entitled Island: The Collected Stories of Alistair MacLeod . In 1999, MacLeod’s first novel, No Great Mischief , was published to great critical acclaim, and was on national bestseller lists for more than a year. The novel won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, The Trillium Award for Fiction, the CAA-MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction, and at the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Awards, MacLeod won for Fiction Book of the Year and Author of the Year. No Great Mischief was also a finalist for the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street. Alistair MacLeod and his wife, Anita, have six children. They live in Windsor. From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Schooner Books Ltd
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1655
- Title
- The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Signed with 3 letters)
- Author
- MacLeod, Alistair
- Format/Binding
- Light brown cloth with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Previous owner's inscription on top corner of 1st. Fly leaf and small paper address label to front paste-down. Also a very l
- Jacket Condition
- Dust jacket is not priced clipped and in very good to fine condition
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Canadian Literature Prose short stories n.s. author Coal/Coal Mining University of Windso
- Size
- 8vo.
Terms of Sale
Schooner Books Ltd
We guarantee our books are as described. All books returnable within 10 days for any reason.Shipping is extra and is calculated at time of purchase. GST is applicable to sales within Canada. We accept visa, mastercard, paypal, cheque or money order(international if outside Canada)
About the Seller
Schooner Books Ltd
Biblio member since 2007
Halifax, Nova Scotia
About Schooner Books Ltd
We are an open shop with a large general inventory of rare used and out of print books.We have been in business for over 30 years and welcome vistors to both our open shop as well as to our internet sites.Our specialties inclued Atlantic Province history and literature,early Canadiana, genealogy, illustarted books, Children's books, fine bindings, etc, etc.
Frequently asked questions
Collecting History of the Circus in America
Step right up! Take a look at the center ring, where you will see displayed the most amazing, most colorful series of history books that the world has ever seen! Right this way, folks…
Vertigo Comics
Vertigo Comics, an imprint of DC Comics, is being retired in 2020 after a 27 year run of groundbreaking comics. The imprint was DC’s home for mature tales that were often horror-themed or otherwise dark in nature. Learn more about Vertigo, home of V for Vendetta, Sandman, and Fables.
