Incomparable Atuk: First Edition (23 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Paperback. Wraps (PB) in very good + condition with slight browning and surface wear to cover and Interior pages are age-toned. Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in pretension, bigotry, and greed, Atuk soon abandons the literary life in favour of more lucrative - and hazardous - schemes. Richler's hilarious and devastating satire lampoons the self-deceptions of "the Canadian identity" and derides the hypocrisy of a nation that seeks cultural independence by slavishly pursuing the American dream. First paperback printing. 192 pages.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st UK Edition. VG, Shelfwear, mild bumping, small stain, light browning/G+, Edgewear, small tears, staining, mild foxing, perforation tear to rear flap hinge. Satire on the Canadian way of life, through the adventures of an Eskimo Poet. Jacket by Len Deighton. Photo on request.…

Condition: Good. 1965. First edition thus. 126 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. VG++, Mild wear/VG, Edgewear, mild staining, label stain to front flap, some spots of soiling. Satire on the Canadian way of life, through the adventures of an Eskimo Poet. Jacket by Len Deighton. Photo on request. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Richler's fifth book. Red boards with gilt title on spine; dust jacket design by Len Deighton. Slight fade to top edges of boards; dj soiled, small tear/crease (1/8") to back panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Incomparable Atuk, Richler, Mordecai. Published by McClelland & Stewart Limited, Toronto, 1963. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall., 192pp. Red boards with gilt spine titles. Name and whiteout marks to free endpaper and otherwise contents are in fine condition. Dustjacket has light wear and a small closed tear front lower edge. Transplanted to Toronto from his native Baffin Island, Atuk the poet is an unlikely overnight success. Eagerly adapting to a society steeped in pretension, bigotry, and greed, Atuk soon abandons the literary life in favour of more lucrative - and hazardous - schemes. Richler's hilarious and devastating satire lampoons the self-deceptions of "the Canadian identity" and derides the hypocrisy of a nation that seeks cultural independence by slavishly pursuing the American dream.…

First edition. Hardcover. Edges slightly foxed, neat ownership signature on the fly-leaf, o/w very good in like price-clipped dustjacket with a few very small closed tears. Dustjacket designed by Len Deighton.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Full red paper boards. 192 pp. Foxing to top edge of text block. Dust jacket is price clipped, age toned, some bumping to extremities.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Some yellowing and soiling to dustjacket. Red boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1963. 1st printing. 192 pages. 20x13.5cm. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has several short closed tears. Red lettering on jacket spine has faded. Front flap is not price-clipped: 16s. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref DVT. Jacket design by Len Deighton (illustrator). …

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very Good small octavo 192pp., Minor wear o/w very good copy in like unclipped dust jacket by Len Deighton.

[NONE] 1963, 1st British edition, first printing. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 192pp. 8vo. First British edition, first printing. Published as Stick Your Neck Out in the Us, this is the story of a Canadian Inuit who has been moved, transplanted, to Toronto from the North and his quick adaptation to the pretentiousness and greed of the big city. The book is clean and bright though the spine is ever so slightly cocked. The unlipped jacket shows light wear (closed tears) along the upper and lower edges and the spine is lightly age-toned. Overall, a very good, clean copy in a very good jacket.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1965 Mayflower-dell paperback first edition, good+ copy , pages slightly tanned.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, review copy with slip. 192 pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine in unclipped pictorial jacket. Jacket rubbed and there are a couple of short closed tears to its extremities. Boards clean, internally clean. With a jacket design by Len Deighton. The hero of Richler's book is a Candian Inuit man and the critique is of the Canadian elites who fetishise Atuk as a noble savage. 8vo. Review Copy.…

192 pp, previous owner's details on front paste-down, edges and prelims foxed, d/j yellowed, else very good copy in like, illustrated, price-clipped d/j. First UK edition.

Condition: very good. 1st Canadian Edition. 192pp. Octavo. Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated dustjacket, minor rubbing, edgewear. Text block is tight, clean. very good.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy small octavo 192pp., Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket by Len Deighton with minimal chips.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Canadian Edition. First Canadian edition, published from UK sheets. 192 pages in very good condition. Red hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Corners not bumped. White, illustrated DJ with red titles. Spine and edges a little yellowed. light wear on corners, jacket a little soiled. VG+/VG-. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st UK Edition. 191 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Foxed on the endpapers and on the page edges. Bound in red hardcovers with gilt titles on the spine. Lightly bumped around the edges. White dustjacket in good condition with red and black titles. Worn and stained around the edges, with some small tears and creases. Darkened and wrinkled. 1ST UK EDITION. NPC. VG/G. Book.…

dj. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition of this rich satirical novel. 8vo. 192 pp. A fine copy in red cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a very good, Len Deighton designed unclipped pictorial dustwrapper. Small chip on front dustjacket.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. The first edition of this satirical novel by author Mordecai Richler, in the original unclipped dust wrapper designed by Len Deighton. The first edition.In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper designed by Len Deighton.This satirical novel was written by Canadian author Mordecai Richler. The work tells the story of a Canadian Inuit called Atuk who's personality changes when he moves to the big city of Toronto, turning him greedy. The novel aims to depict the fetishization of native cultures, with Richler's satirical characters first seeing Atuk as a noble savage and then, when he starts to become influenced by the big city, as a symbol of Canadian nationalism. The work was intended to be made into a film, but never made it to the screen, with many believing that the work was cursed as six different actors were found dead shortly after being offered the lead role in the film. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with slight bumping to the extremities and a slight lean. The wrap is sound with handling marks, offsetting to the verso, sunning to the spine, a small tidemark to the front, creasing and closed tears and chips repaired with archival tape to the verso. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Spotting to the fore edge. Near Fine. Len Deighton (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. 191 p. 21 cm. Red hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Some marks to jacket with slight wear to edges. A little foxing to text block edges.

1st Edition. 1st Edition. First Edition of this rich satirical novel Signed by Mordecai Richler on the title page. 8vo. 180 pp. A very good copy with some browning from age on the pages. Signed.