Mourning Ruby by Dunmore Helen, Signed (11 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Author Signed/No Personal Inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition/First Printing with a "1" on the copyright page; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only mild foxing to the top exterior text block and page edges. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in archival protection. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. [First Edition]. red paper-covered boards w/ gilt lettering on spine; beige endpapers; 310 pgs; photo-illus dust jacket w/ 16.99 on front flap.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First U.K. Edition. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. SIGNED by the author. Physical description; 309 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Children Death Fiction. Bereavement Fiction. Modern fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, second impression with '2' on copyright page. SIGNED, DATED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'For Rachel, with best wishes Helen Dunmore. October 2003, Newcastle'. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, top corners very slightly bruised, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 310pp. More than thirty years ago, a mother laid her newborn baby in a shoebox and left it by the bins in the backyard of an Italian restaurant. Now the baby, Rebecca, is a mother herself, and she and her husband Adam are about to experience the greatest tragedy parents can face. Like a Russian doll, this novel opens to reveal a brilliant richness of stories locked within. MOURNING RUBY is poet and novelist Helen Dunmore's (1952-2017), most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory and history, both personal and public, about love, loss and mourning, and ultimately about the most important relationship in any novel, that of the reader to the writer. Quite scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Editions. Bound in clean red cloth, with bright gilt lettering to spine, this hardcover First Edition is VG in VG wrapper.Signed by author on title-page.(1V)/310pp with clean endpapers and unclipped wrapper. All VG. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. SIGNED by the author. Physical description; 309 p. ; 25 cm. Subjects; Children Death Fiction. Bereavement Fiction. Modern fiction. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine dustwrapper, Signed by the Author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. SIGNED (flatsigned) by the author.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 309 pages; Physical desc. : 309p. 22cm. Summary: Like a Russian doll, this is a novel of interlocking stories, each one opening to reveal another. It tells not only the story of the loss of a child and its effect on three people, but an account of a young girl's life in a brothel during WWI, the magical story of a circus acrobat, and the history of Stalin's first wife and her mysterious fate. Mourning Ruby is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory, history - personal and public - about imagination, and ultimately about the most important relationship of all in any novel - that of the reader to the writer. Subjects: Children - Death - Fiction. Bereavement - Fiction. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. SIGNED (flatsigned) by the author.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 309 pages; Physical desc. : 309p. 22cm. Summary: Like a Russian doll, this is a novel of interlocking stories, each one opening to reveal another. It tells not only the story of the loss of a child and its effect on three people, but an account of a young girl's life in a brothel during WWI, the magical story of a circus acrobat, and the history of Stalin's first wife and her mysterious fate. Mourning Ruby is Helen Dunmore's most ambitious novel to date, hugely moving and strongly plotted, about memory, history - personal and public - about imagination, and ultimately about the most important relationship of all in any novel - that of the reader to the writer. Subjects: Children - Death - Fiction. Bereavement - Fiction. 1 Kg.