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The Stone Angel
by Laurence, Margaret
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1964. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for prev. owner inscription on ffep., in jacket with chips at head and heel of spine ( not affecting title lettering), and a lateral closed tear across the spine, 2 inches down from top. This tear has vertical creases that run up to spine top, and a small scrape, that obliterates the second R in Margaret. Still a very presentable copy. This is the first state binding..
Synopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen . From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987. From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7482
- Title
- The Stone Angel
- Author
- Laurence, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Printing of the First Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Canadian First Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Edition Canadian Literature;
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Victoria, British Columbia
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- Fine
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