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ANIL'S GHOST. Signed by the Author.
by ONDAATJE, Michael
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Inc., (2000).. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in Dust Jacket. Octavo, original black boards lettered in gilt. 311 pp. Signed by the Author on the title page. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
¶ Winner of the Prix Medici, Governor- General's Award, Kiriyama Prize and Giller Prize. A small post-it note on the front endpaper (it's removable and didn't leave a mark) shows me that this book comes from the stock of Poor Richard's Books in Victoria BC, where it was priced at $50. Poor Richards, which was Barney and Joanna Hagar, was one of the bookshops that was around when I first started in the trade - or before I started, when I would go out book-hunting on weekends, sometimes alone, sometimes with my daughter Undine in tow. It was a good bookshop, and eventually it ended up in a beautiful heritage building in an old part of Victoria. Barney and Joanna shut Poor Richards down in 2004, and now every once in a while I find something that I know came from there. And so it goes.
¶ Winner of the Prix Medici, Governor- General's Award, Kiriyama Prize and Giller Prize. A small post-it note on the front endpaper (it's removable and didn't leave a mark) shows me that this book comes from the stock of Poor Richard's Books in Victoria BC, where it was priced at $50. Poor Richards, which was Barney and Joanna Hagar, was one of the bookshops that was around when I first started in the trade - or before I started, when I would go out book-hunting on weekends, sometimes alone, sometimes with my daughter Undine in tow. It was a good bookshop, and eventually it ended up in a beautiful heritage building in an old part of Victoria. Barney and Joanna shut Poor Richards down in 2004, and now every once in a while I find something that I know came from there. And so it goes.
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- Bookseller
- Thompson Rare Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 312548
- Title
- ANIL'S GHOST. Signed by the Author.
- Author
- ONDAATJE, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- (2000).
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- Literature;
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Hornby Island, British Columbia
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- Jacket
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Poor
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