The Lost Salt Gift Of Blood
by MacLeod, Alistair
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.
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TheLost Salt Gft of Blood
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Ltd, 1976. Book. Very Good +. Half-Leather. Signed by Author(s). First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a small spot stain on bottom edge of text block that affects the last 10 pages, and lightly bumped extremities. Signed on the title page. There is also an ink mark on the front… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Salt gift of blood
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The stories in the Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple- a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child's reality conflicts with his parents memories, a young man struggles to
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976 Book. Illus. by Carol Noel (cover). Very Good. Hardcover. First. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original tan tweedy cloth on boards. DJ not clipped, but light chipping along head. No writing and no other damage. The first full-length book by this author, comprised of seven stories: In the Fall, The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Paperback Edition First Printing. About fine but for minor bumping and traces of wear to extremities. No spine crease. Signed on the half title page.. Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. VERY GOOD/GOOD. 23 cm.. Tan cloth boards. Binding is sound and tight. Faint foxing to endpapers. Slight wear to corners of spine. Corners are not bumped. No writing or markings. Dust jacket is chipped, with multiple short edge tears. Spine is sunned. Foxing to verso of dust jacket.… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood. (SIGNED)
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U.S.A.: Ontario Review Press, Princeton, 1988., 1988. 1st . Paperback. Very Good. First printing. 8vo, trade softcover. Very Good copy with some wear/creasing, touch of soiling to top-edge of text block - not bad really. No tears, no owner's name. Hard-to-find book by this respected Canadian writer. This book differs from the Canadian hardcover of the same title… Read more about this item Item Price
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Princeton: Ontario Review Press, 1988. Paperback. Fine. Second printing. Octavo format, trade softcover. Appears unread. No wear, no creases, no tears, no owner's name. Hard-to-find book by this respected Canadian writer. This book differs from the Canadian hardcover of the same title as it includes some stories from his second book (As Birds Bring Forth the Sun) plus… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood: New and Selected Stories
by Alistair MacLeod
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
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London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. First UK printing 1991. Faint soil mark on the top edge. .5 cm spine lean, small bump wear to the board corners. DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing along the edges. Actual book for sale pictured. 14.5 x 22.4 x 2.6 cm, wt650g. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood: New and Selected Stories
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THE LOST SALT GIFT OF BLOOD
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(Toronto): McClelland and Stewart, 1976.. 8vo. 187 pp. Khaki boards. Some soiling to edges, and bruising to spine tips and corners in lightly worn dustwrapper with edges rubbed and spine faded. Still a very good copy. Signed by the author on the title page.. Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (Signed with 3 letters)
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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… Read more about this item Item Price
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The lost salt gift of blood
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1987. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). .. A nice copy with light shelfwear and one tiny (1/4") closed tear along spine. Signed by Macleod on title-page. This is the 1987 reprint of the 1976 edition. Scarce, even in this printing.. Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood. (SIGNED).
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Mass-market paperback. VG with light wear/creasing to covers, no owner's name. Tight, clean copy with light wear to covers. No owner's name. Pages yellowing slightly as usual This is the New Canadian Library edition, preceding the edition with the Oates afterword. First hardcover edition of this book is rare. SIGNED… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
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McClelland & Stewart, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in excellent condition. Pages are intact and are not marred by notes or highlighting, but may contain a neat previous owner name. The spine remains undamaged. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
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Ontario Review Press, 1988. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Item Price
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The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
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