SHIELDS, CarolABAA
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1997rif. 363684London: Fourth Estate 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First English edition. Very good with bowed boards a few dampstains along the page edges in an about fine dustwrapper with slight edge wear. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fourth Estate hardcover books
1989rif. 2344829Toronto: Random House 1989. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8x5x0. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Edges lightly foxed. 1989 Hard Cover. 199 pp. A collection of twelve short stories by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. “Milk Bread Beer Ice” is a road trip shared by a husband and wife who no longer communicate through meaningful dialogue. Fifty-year-old “Hazel” is forced to enter an alien workplace after the sudden death of her husband. In “Today Is the Day” the village women gather together for their annual ritual of planting blisterlilies. And “Family Secrets” travels to DeKalb Illinois and the First World War as the narrator searches for a missing year in her mother's life . . . and unearths a surprising connection to Ernest Hemingway. From a group of musicians who discover they share more than classical “Chemistry” to an unhappily married couple who may get a second chance this remarkable collection like the ageless orange fish of the title story is filled with the wonder and magic of everyday life. Random House hardcover books
1992rif. 2348391Toronto: Random House 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8x5x0. Signed by author. First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Jacket lightly toned otherwise an excellent copy. 1992 Hard Cover. x 366 pp. 8vo. A novel by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. '"The Republic of Love" marries a wide diversity of elements mythical and modern ironic and moving exhilarating and melancholy!a love-surveying story that is enticingly seductive.' Times Literary Supplement '"The Republic of Love" is a hymn to the pleasures and pains the raptures even of an unspectacular life. Fay discovers that happiness is "a kind of by-product of existence and not an end in itself". This piece of knowledge saves her Shields suggests from the watery ambiguous yearning of the mermaid "plaintive coy" wordlessly calling out to no one. A simple message but Shields delivers it with so much grace and so little pretension that it is impossible not to be enchanted by her voice. She sings with the charm of a true siren. In her hands we believe anything can happen.' Guardian 'A novel that's so engrossing it makes you want to retire to a squashy sofa until you reach the end. Vividly fresh - glittering and spangled with fabulous surprises.' Sunday Times Random House hardcover books
1992rif. 301154New York: Viking 1992. First. hardcover. fine/fine. 8vo cloth backed boards d.w. New York: Viking 1992. First Edition. Viking unknown books
1992rif. 912755Toronto: Random House. 1992. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Random House hardcover books
1993rif. 2346790Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing 1993. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. Signed by author. First edition - a paperback original. Signed by author without inscription on title page. Rear wrapper a bit toned. 1993 Trade Paperback. 61 pp. A play by the popular Canadian author who won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Stone Diaries. Blizzard Publishing paperback books
1994rif. 8165London: Fourth Estate 1994. First UK edition. 243 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. A collection of seventeen short stories. London: Fourth Estate unknown books
1999rif. 540927New York: Penguin Books 1999. Softcover. Near Fine. First Penguin Books edition. Originally published in 1991 by Coteau Books in Canada. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Advance Review Copy with publisher's materials laid in. A novel. Penguin Books unknown books
1991rif. 417166New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine. Inscribed to author Nicholas Delbanco: "For Nick - A superb teacher wonderful writer & extemporizer non-pareil - With admiration David. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1991rif. 535749New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1989rif. 564775New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in a fine dust lightly toned on the flaps and rear panel. Author's second novel. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1984rif. 914302NY: Simon & Schuster. 1984. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted our first editions are first printings. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1986rif. 454021Washington D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History 1986. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Octavo. 88pp. A few illustrations. Stapled printed wrappers. About fine. U.S. Army Center of Military History unknown books
1974rif. BC10-050Zug, Denges-Lausanne, Verlag der Offizin Z?rcher AG, Editions du Verseau, Roth & Sauter SA, 1974. original Leinenband, 4?, 205 Seiten mit zahlreichen Holzschnitten, manche davon in Farbe; Zustand: Wappenexlibris auf Vorsatz, gut + // toile originale, in-quarto, 205 pages avec beaucoup de gravures sur bois, en partie en couleur, ex libris, bon ?tat
1918rif. 42112Boston: Ditson 1918. First Edition. 8vo pp. xvi 100 ci-cv. Index. Copiously illustrated. Map. Paper over boards with paper labels on front and spine. Bookplate on pastedown very slight cip at top of spine o/w a nice copy. Features the history of the Oliver Ditson Company. Ditson unknown books
1995rif. 1833FBBitburg, Verbandsgemeinde Bitburg-Land, Geschichtlicher Arbeitskreis Bitburger Land, 1995. Groß-8°. 24 x 17 cm. 118 Seiten. Original-Karton. (= Beiträge zur Geschichte des Bitburger Landes Nr. 20/21).
1987rif. 62420CBFrankfurt am Main, Verlag Waldemar Kramer, 1987. 4°. 27,5 x 20,5 cm. VIII, 176 (1) Seiten. Original-Pappband. (= Mitteilungen aus dem Frankfurter Stadtarchiv, Band 6).
1959rif. 114EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1959 In4 19 planches d'armoiries en couleur et 27 pages - broché - bon etat
1959rif. 114EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1959 In4 19 planches d'armoiries en couleur et 27 pages - broché - bon etat
1956rif. 115EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1956 In4 13 planches d'armoiries en couleur et texte non paginé - broché - bon etat
1956rif. 115EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1956 In4 13 planches d'armoiries en couleur et texte non paginé - broché - bon etat
1964rif. 117EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1964 In4 9 planches d'armoiries en couleur et 13 pages - broché - bon etat
1964rif. 117EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1964 In4 9 planches d'armoiries en couleur et 13 pages - broché - bon etat
1962rif. 118EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1962 In4 15 planches d'armoiries en couleur et 20 pages - broché - bon etat
1962rif. 118EuMetz Departement De La Moselle 1962 In4 15 planches d'armoiries en couleur et 20 pages - broché - bon etat
