Annie
by Hortie, Carl
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0888878877
- ISBN 13
- 9780888878878
- Seller
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Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Ottawa: Borealis Press. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888878877 . Signed by Author; DJ shows heavy shelf wear with tears and chipping, some archivally repaired.; Signed by author on the half-title page. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 312 pages; "Annie Kinnikinck, the central character in this novel set in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), is a young Haida recently promoted to supervisor of the operating room in the small hospital on Moresby Island. She struggles desperately to raise the consciousness of the Indian women on the Islands. She is faced with antagonism and racial prejudice by her white contemporaries as well as the Indians themselves who feel that "no way can an Indian supervise the white employees without becoming more white than the whites themselves," .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ainsworth Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18829
- Title
- Annie
- Author
- Hortie, Carl
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0888878877
- ISBN 13
- 9780888878878
- Publisher
- Borealis Press
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0888878877, Haida, Haida Gwaii, Queen Charlotte Islands, moresby island, Signed, Haida Gwai, racial prejudice
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Fiction / Canadian;
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About the Seller
Ainsworth Books
Biblio member since 2003
Chilliwack, British Columbia
About Ainsworth Books
Ainsworth Books was for many years a bricks and mortar store in Vancouver, BC. When we acquired the store, we moved to a location in Delta. After three years we moved the stock home and started operation as an online, by appointment only operation. I have worked with books my whole adult life and enjoy giving recommendations.
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- Jacket
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- Shelf Wear
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- Chipping
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- Fair
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.