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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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Book Description Condition: Good. Reprinted. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 4404411-6
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Later Printing. Light sheflwear and rubbing to extremities, bookplate. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book. Seller Inventory # 0826645
Book Description Paperback. pp. ix, 224. 8vo. General shelfwear, creasing to spine, yellowed tape around edges of covers. Faint residue from tape and stamps to first and last pages; good-. Forward by Hugh Garner. Seller Inventory # 070190
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. pgs.224 clean tight copy with tanning to text pages and edges some scratch dents on back cover lower, slight wear to front lower. Seller Inventory # 286255
Book Description Trade Paper. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Later printing of the Canadian trade paper edition SIGNED by Alice Munro on the half-title page and inscribed "For [a first name]." This copy is from the 4th printing in 1974. Gold covers with dark green titles. A story collection and the author's first book, it was awarded Canada's Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction in 1968. A solid copy, the pages remain firmly bound. Previous owner wrote her name along the top edge of the inside front cover with a ballpoint pen. Part of one sentence on pg.1 of the text is underlined, and the word "local" is written in the margin. That is the only other marking by a previous owner. The top and bottom corners of the covers and the opening and closing pages of the text have softened or been turned. Slight spine roll with reading creases along the spine. Shelf wear to the surface of both covers with rubbing that has caused a small patch of color loss at two points on the front cover, near - but not affecting - the title. The surface of the top corner of the back cover has been lost, and a small patch of the surface of the bottom edge of the back cover has been lifted away by, presumably, the removal of a sticker. Despite these flaws, this copy presents the opportunity to acquire an autographed copy of a Canadian edition of the esteemed author's first book. Perhaps Canada's most highly-decorated writer, Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 and cited as "a master of the contemporary short story." She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009. She has won Canada's Giller Prize twice and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction three times: Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) and The Progress of Love (1986). Beginning in the 1960s, her stories were published regularly in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and The Paris Review. Note to Collectors: never an avid signer, when Munro completed the publicity tour for The Love of A Good Woman in 1998, she announced that she would no longer make public appearances to autograph books. Multiple signed Canadian firsts of other Munro titles are also available from this bookseller. Canadian orders will be charged GST. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 002297
Book Description 8vo, 224pp. A very good cloth hardback copy in (first issue) dust jacket with light edgewear and superficial abrasions. Gift inscription to front endpaper. Forward by Hugh Garner. Seller Inventory # 81385
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. PO gift inscription in ink on ffep. Slant to spine. Light foxing on top edge of text block. Rubbing and some wrinkles on edges of d/j. First edition of Munro's first book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages. Seller Inventory # 200963
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. true 1st edition. True first edition (first Canadian edition). In Very Good, mylar wrapped dust jacket (not price clipped). Octavo. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. Green endpapers with previous owner's inscription; Otherwise book is in Very Good condition. Textblock is clean and tight throughout. Seller Inventory # FORT198930
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very attractive copy of the Nobel Prize winning author's first collection of short stories. Second state of the jacket with Governor-General's sticker affixed to front panel. SIGNED by Munro on the front endpaper. Lightest of wear to book, two owners' inscriptions (one of author Ursula Jupp) on the front endpaper, attractive bookplate on front pastedown. The jacket is very lightly worn with small rough areas on front and back panels where the surface coating has been eroded. 224 pp. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 31113
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Binding tight; pages clean; spine very slightly cocked; tiny p/o name in pen at top of front endpaper. First-state DJ, with no Governor-General's Award Winner sticker, is unfaded and shows a touch of wear to edges and corners; looks nice in Brodart cover. Autographed by Munro on title page. True first edition of Canadian author's first book; she went on, of course, to win the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. 224 pages. U.S. buyers, please email me for a possible discount!. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 6605