Son Of a Smaller Hero

by Richler, Mordecai

Mordecai Richler was born in Montreal in 1931. The author of ten successful novels, numerous screenplays, and several books of non-fiction, his novel, Barney's Version, was an acclaimed bestseller and the winner of The Giller Prize, the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, the QSpell Award, and the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Novel in the Caribbean and Canada region. Richler also won two Governor General’s Awards and was shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize. Mordecai Richler died in Montreal in July 2001.

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Son of a Smaller Hero

Son of a Smaller Hero

by Mordecai Richler

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1969
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1969. Mass Market Paperback. GOOD+. New Canadian Library Pages are tanned. Covers are a bit scuffed. Spine is not creased. Old bookstore stamp inside front cover. Binding is sound and tight. New Canadian Library no. 45 206 pages. New Canadian Library no. 45 -- Please feel free to ask for additional… Read more about this item
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by RICHLER, Mordecai

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1955
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.25cm); burgundy cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [12],13-232pp. Bookplate signed by the author loosely laid in. Gentle sunning to upper board edges, tiny stain to upper edge of textblock, with some faint offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced 12s.6d. net), gently sunned and… Read more about this item
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1955
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London: Andre Deutsch. Very Good- in Poor dust jacket. 1955. Second. Hardback. Inscribed by the author on front endpaper, dd May 10 1956. Illustrated grey + yellow d/jkt, unclipped; intact, but very frail and worn; spine slightly darkened. Red boards; a trifle faded; corners slightly bumped. First edition, second impression. ; 8vo (5 1/4" x 8"); 232… Read more about this item
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. Hardcover. very good. 1st edition. 232pp. Small octavo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine - lightly faded. News clipping pasted inside front cover. Evidence of some water staining on backcover/inside back-cover. Scarce. very good Author's 2nd book. 1955
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1969. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. ex-library with usual markings, edge wear, stain on back cover; New Canadian Library N 45; Young Noah Adler, passionate, ruthlessly idealistic, is the prodigal son of Montreal's Jewish ghetto. Finding tradition in league with self-delusion, he attempts to shatter the… Read more about this item
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1968
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New Canadian Library, 1968. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking!. 2nd Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good +. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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by RICHLER, MORDECAI

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1955
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Slightly cocked. Minor staining to rear flap but overall a near fine copy of a Montreal book.
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1955
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London: Andre Deutsch, 1955. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First UK Edition, 2nd Impression. This is a lovely copy with lightly blunted corners. 1/2" spot of discolouration at the bottom-edge of ffep where there used to be a sticker. Price-clipped jacket also attractive with minor wear at extremeties of spine and 1/8" nick along bottom-edge. Text clean, binding strong. [Montreal Books… Read more about this item
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Son of a Smaller Hero

by Mordecai Richler

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1955
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Andre Deutsch, 1955. Book. Very Good (Book condition). Hardcover. First edition, First Printing. first edition, first printing. No DJ. Small stain top fore-edge, else Very Good indeed. [Our rating system: 1.Fine; 2. Near fine; 3. Very good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].
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Son of a Smaller Hero: Penguin Modern Classics Edition (New Canadian Library)

by Richler, Mordecai

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Son of a Smaller Hero

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by Mordecai Richler

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Son of A Smaller Hero

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1955
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London: Purnell & Sons Ltd., 1955. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Bright and sturdy, this is a very well preserved copy in like unclipped dust jacket, with one very short closed tear at rear. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair].
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