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Friend of My Youth (Signed)
de Munro, Alice
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394584422
- ISBN 13
- 9780394584423
- Librería
-
Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
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Sobre este artículo
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1990. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0394584422 . 276 p. 22 cm. Signed by Author Sound and square binding in paper-covered boards, with a cloth-backed spine. Spine very slightly cocked. Minor edge and corner wear. The cloth is lightly faded at the ends. Light bend line to spine cloth but likely bound like that, as opposed to a crease from reading. Top edge of the text block has a hint of dust. The front free endpaper has an offsetting mark, where something was once taped to it. Two light sticker marks where the tape was removed. The inside pages are clean and unmarked (except for author's signature). Dust jacket has some light edge wear and shelf rubbing with light scratches. It is not price clipped. A collection of stories by the noted Canadian author and winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature. Flat-signed by Alice Munro on the half title page. .
Sinopsis
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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Detalles
- Librería
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 6729
- Título
- Friend of My Youth (Signed)
- Autor
- Munro, Alice
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good+ dust jacket
- Edición
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394584422
- ISBN 13
- 9780394584423
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1990
- Palabras clave
- 0394584422
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Fiction;
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Campbellcroft, Ontario
Sobre Homeward Bound Books
Homeward Bound Books is an online bookshop operated from our home in the Municipality of Port Hope, Ontario. We specialize in children's and illustrated books – collectible and reading copies; and local histories, particularly for Ontario. We also stock a selection of collectable mystery fiction, ephemera, and any other titles we find interesting or unusual. We have thousands of books yet to be catalogued. So, please contact us to be added to our client list, and we will let you know when we have books of interest to you. It is our pleasure to send books homeward bound -- from our shelves to yours.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
