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The Sea is Banvilles 13th novel. It win the 2005 Booker Prize. This is an Advance Readers Copy first American edition.
Written as a reflective journal it is the story of Max Morden, a retired art historian attempting to reconcile himself to the deaths of those he lived as a child and as an adult.
Seamus Heaney said of The Sea, " Isn't it wonderful to be part of a culture that produces prose as good as that"

Synopsis:
A heartfelt celebration of the New England seasons in a charmingly illustrated, slipcased gift edition by New England's pre-eminent poet. Lyrical, comic and elegiac, it sings of a land and culture that is disappearing under the assault of change.
DONALD HALL, was poet laureate of the United States from 2006 to 2007. He received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in poetry, the Lenore Marshall Award, the 1990 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Beautifully illustrated with wood engravings by Thomas W.Nason
This will make a thoughtful gift for a true nature lover.
Save $20,00 if you purchase this and Here at Eagle Pond (also listed)

Six long poems: 'Assassination Raga', 'Bickford's Buddha', 'All Too Clearly', 'Through the Looking Glass', 'After the Cries of the Birds' and 'Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow'; 150 numbered copies, this one marked out of series, and signed by the author. Original blue cloth. Fine as issued in slipcase. Book is new, slipcase has fading around edges front and back.

Hardcover. Condition: New 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 545 pages. Published in 1996. Retrospective collection of short stories. Advance Reader's Edition/Limited Edition of 200 signed copies. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. They have the same ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Alfred A. Knopf: Regular-sized volume format. Cream cloth boards with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Short stories by Alice Munro. Purple pictorial slipcase with titles on one side. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Gathers and presents Alice Munro's "Selected Stories". Twenty-eight of the most representative and finest short stories by arguably its greatest writer of our time. "

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition/First Printing. This copy of "Slowness" has been SIGNED by Milan Kundera on the front free-endpaper! Translated from the French by Linda Asher - Milan Kundera is the author of the novels Immortality", "The Unbearable Likeness of Being", and the "Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Slowness was his first novel to be written originally in French -- his earlier works were written in Czech. This is an Advance Reading Copy from the Uncorrected Proofs in the Publishers' Hard Slipcase w/cutout over title. Signed by Author(s).
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