TRUE STORIES.
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- ISBN 10
- 0224020714
- ISBN 13
- 9780224020718
- Seller
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About This Item
London:: Jonathan Cape,, (1982.). SIGNED first edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First UK printing. Her ninth collection of poems, perhaps her darkest - 'the true story is vicious/ and multiple and untrue/ after all' - and the poems often contradict the implicit ideas inthe title - 'Christmas Carols' begins 'Children do not always mean/ hope. To some they mean despair.' Originally issued as a trade paperback in Canada in 1981, and only issued in wrappers in the UK also. SIGNED on the title page. Cover photograph (on both front and back) by Graeme Gibson. 103 pp.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30178
- Title
- TRUE STORIES.
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0224020714
- ISBN 13
- 9780224020718
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape,
- Place of Publication
- London:
- Date Published
- (1982.)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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