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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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).…

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine, not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. Jacket Condition: 'Near Fine, not price clipped' Condition: 'Near Fine' Notes: Binding is square, tight, and solid. Lovely pale green cloth boards; gilt is solid and bright. Pages are unmarked, crisp, clean and not bent, with the exception of page 88, which has a corner wrinkle, and 89 which also has a corner wrinkle, but with a 1cm tear. Dust jacket is not price clipped, has three very small closed tears, one to its spine's head, and the other two to its back panel's top edge; otherwise there is no wear. …

Toronto: The Ryerson Press. 1968. 8vo. Original green buckram lettered in gilt to spine, in dustwrapper, olive green endpapers; xiv, 224, [2]; neat contemporary gift inscription to front pastedown, wrapper lightly faded to spine and rubbed to upper spine tip; a near fine copy in like wrapper.An uncommonly bright, sharp first edition, first printing of The Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author's debut volume.The stories of Dance of the Happy Shades, Alice Munro's first book, are set in the farms, towns and suburbs of western Ontario, territory the author would make her own over the following decades. They render, with characteristically luminous precision, the seemingly ordinary lives of her characters. "She is our Chekhov", Cynthia Ozick has written of Munro, "and is going to outlast most of her contemporaries".…