At the Bottom of the River
Kincaid, Jamaica
ISBN 10: 0374106606 ISBN 13: 9780374106607
Published by Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1983
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SIGNED on title page--signature only. Jacket has very minor rubbing that would not be visible under acetate cover. Seller Inventory # 39-15
Synopsis:
Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.
Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
About the Author:
Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother. She lives with her family in Vermont.
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Title: At the Bottom of the River
Publisher: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 1983
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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ISBN 10: 0374106606
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Seller: Shade of the Cottonwood, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
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Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine unread condition first edition/stated first printing hardcover signed/inscribed by author on half-title page. Free of owner's marks with extremely tight binding. Shelfwear includes light bump base spine. Dust jacket price-clipped. In protective archival sleeve. signed and inscribed by author or artist. Seller Inventory # 4210
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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The author's first book. Stated first printing. SIGNED by the author on a tipped-in front endpage. Very good in a very good dust jacket. ; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 87400
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Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the Author on the title page. First Printing, price-clipped jacket. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 6084
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At the Bottom of the River
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Seller: Rural Hours, La Grande, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed on the half-title page. With the ownership signature and date ("1984") of Greg Gatenby, longtime director of the Toronto International Festival of Authors on the FFEP. Fine book with a near fine jacket that has a a very faint streak of rubbing where the cloth turns to the paper on the underlying board. Seller Inventory # ABE-1593366068682
At The Bottom of the River
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Seller: Mike Murray - Bookseller LLC, East Windsor, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine (price-clipped). First Edition/Later Printing. Second Printing, as an alternative to the first edition. This copy has been SIGNED by Jamaica Kincaid on the title page. A beautiful copy of the author's first book - a magical collection of ten pieces. Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies. Dustjacket praise by Derek Walcott. Winner of the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Starts with her first published New Yorker fiction piece, "Girl," the story with which she felt she found her voice as a writer. An intense one-sentence, three-page story. "Girl" is the first story in the collection. It was originally released on June 26, 1978 in The New Yorker[3] and examines the struggles of growing up young and female on a post-colonial poor Caribbean island. "Girl" is series of instructions, warnings and advice given by a mother to her daughter on how to behave especially in the presence of men. The mother frets about her daughter maturing into a woman, reflective of Jamaica Kincaid's own experiences growing up with her forceful mother in Antigua. The structure consists of a single sentence, punctuated by semi-colons, detailing the advice imparted from mother to daughter. The mother's voice is predominant in the narrative, only interrupted twice by the daughter who makes a feigned attempt to defend herself. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 246
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AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER: STORIES - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Jamaica Kincaid - SIGNED ON THE HALF-TITLE PAGE
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ISBN 10: 0374106606
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Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 82 pages. Published in 1983. The author's breakthrough debut collection of short stories. One of the most important American literary debuts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jamaica Kincaid's "At The Bottom of The River: Stories". Her slim yet spectacular debut, still her best book thus far: Deceptively simple stories that evoke and recreate an Edenic, rural childhood in the West Indies (Antigua) in a way that is fully alive and truly universal. Like every serious reader of literature, a reader from the East Indies (Asia-Pacific) will relate to and relish Kincaid's vivid memories. "More thrilling than any prose I've read in the last few years by a writer from this continent" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Jamaica Kincaid collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Jamaica Kincaid. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws ("price-clipped" is pandemic), are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMAICA KINCAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374106606. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 23143