Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Grey binding with silver Title, Author and Publisher on spine. 192pp. Content clean, bright and sound.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Price: US$15.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 short closed tears and light shelfwear to DJ. Book clean and solid.
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2 short closed tears and light shelfwear to DJ. Book clean and solid.
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition second printing of the second full length novel by this author. Light shelf wear. Earlier owners name plate on the first free end page. Price clipped otherwise in near fine / near fine condition. BRColl
Seller: Scene of the Crime, ABAC, IOBA, St. Catharines, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$30.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Full grey paper boards. 192 pp. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket is price clipped, rubbed and bumped to extremities.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very lovely copy of Atwood's second novel. First Canadian edition, 2nd printing. A faint erasure of previous owner's name on first free end-paper. Pages tight, crisp, clean with almost perfect cover boards and spine. Just a wisp of shelf-wear to base of spine. Gilt titles are bright and unrubbed. Dust jacket has slight wrinkle to bottom portion of front panel, otherwise nearly perfect. A very, very nice copy.
Seller: LOONYBOOK, Friday Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$33.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: About Fine But For Prev. Owner Inscription On Ffep. Jacket Is Edgeworn, With A Chip To Top Edge Of Back Panel, And 2 Closed Tears.
Seller: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing [1st Printing]. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, M&S, 1972.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition of the author's first novel. Grey cloth boards with gold titles and white endpapers. A tight copy with sharp corners. Ghost of pencil erasure at top edge of ffep. Previous owner's brief gift inscription in blue ink at the top edge of the page facing the half-title page (the reverse side of the ffep). The gold titles along the spine are bright and the exposed page edges are clean. The 1st issue jacket is price intact. Tanning to the spine with very minor fading of the titles. Tanning is less visible along the front fold. Softening, wrinkles and minor losses at the heel and crown of the jacket's spine. A more significant loss at the top corner of the front panel, at the fore-edge. The B&W author photograph on the back panel shows wear along the back fold, and there is softening and a minor loss at the top edge of that fold. Two tiny closed tears in the top edge of the front panel and one along the top edge of the back panel. A small food stain in the middle of the front panel is mostly obscured by the black type of Novel and Margaret. The book is unaffected. Two small, closed punctures in the back panel along the spine. And there is an unobtrusive black stain at the foot of the letter M in the publisher's logo, at the heel of the jacket's spine. The book is unaffected. Canadian buyer will be charged GST.
Seller: SIGNAL BOOKS & ART, Kitchener, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart Limited., Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, hardcover in dust jacket. There is a name on the front pastedown covered by the jacket flap, small sticker ghost on the front endpaper. The jacket has on small edge crease, minor age toning. Very Good/Very Good. A nice copy.
Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: A beautiful copy in jacket with miniscule chip at crown of jacket spine. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 8vo
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: A beautiful copy in jacket with miniscule chip at crown of jacket spine. [ Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair ] Size: 8vo
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Price: US$69.43 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.96
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
ATWOOD, Margaret.. Surfacing.. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, [1972]., 1972.
Price: US$74.04 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 192. bds. dw. (chipped).
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Price: US$85.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: very good in mylar dust jacket Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. SURFACING. McClelland & Stewart, 1972.
Price: US$104.53 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.75
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good+ (near fine to fine save for a small brown stain on front board) copy in grey/green boards with bright, gold, gilt lettering on the spine in a VERY GOOD+, bright, unclipped dust jacket ( closed 6 cm tear n front panel and chipping to top of spine) showing a price of $6.95. SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - BY MARGARET ATWOOD ON THE TITLE PAGE. This is a first edition third printing and is a tight, clean, very bright and fresh copy with no markings of any kind.
Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good+ (near fine to fine save for a small brown stain on front board) copy in grey/green boards with bright, gold, gilt lettering on the spine in a VERY GOOD+, bright, unclipped dust jacket ( tightly closed 6 cm tear n front panel and chipping to top of spine) showing a price of $6.95. SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - BY MARGARET ATWOOD ON THE TITLE PAGE. This is a first edition first printing and is a tight, clean (save as noted), very bright and fresh copy with no markings of any kind.
Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st printing of the first Canadian hardcover edition SIGNED by Atwood on the title page with a black ballpoint pen. NOTE: Atwood no longer participates in autograph sessions. This is the scarcely found first state of the hardcover edition printed by Web Offset Limited in 1972 and with no review blurbs on the back panel of the jacket and blank flaps. (The 2nd issue printed by T.H. Best is more commonly found.) A well-preserved copy, this example of Survival is square and tight with sharp corners and bears no previous owner's markings. Ghost of pencil erasure at top edge of ffep. Tanning to the page edges typical of this edition. The jacket is not priced, as issued. A few scuffs to the black front panel. There is a short, horizontal tear to the spine of the jacket which has resulted in minor loss of paper. There is a tear and associated creases in the bottom corner of the front panel, and a previous owner has reinforced the inside of the jacket at that point with a short piece of scotch tape. Typical wear to the heel and crown of the jacket's spine, and there is wear and softening of the bottom edge of the back panel. Collectors consider Survival to be a companion piece to Atwood's first novel, Surfacing, which was published in the same year (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972). That's because the novel illustrates some of the themes she discusses in Survival. In the Preface, Atwood writes that the book "outlines a number of key patterns" in an effort to distinguish Canadian literature from other literatures. Canadian orders will be charged GST.
Seller: SIGNAL BOOKS & ART, Kitchener, ON, Canada
Margaret Atwood. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition inscribed by Margaret Atwood on half title page. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Slight bumping to spine ends. Price clipped. Very good dust jacket. Slight bumping to spine ends. Some rubbing to back cover. A desirable first edition signed by the author.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. SURFACING. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first prnt. Signed by Atwood on the half-title page following the copyright page. Color photograph of Atwood signing the book laid-in. Spine ends lightly bumped, tiny scuff and pencilled price erasure on front free endpage; dustjacket with slight shelfwear and three interior topedge tape reinforcements (not apparent on the outside). Very Good condition in a Very Good dustjacket with an archival cover.Atwood's second novel and a complement to her poetry collection Power Politics published in 1971.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine or better copy in grey/green boards with bright, gold, gilt lettering on the spine in a near fine, bright, unclipped dust jacket showing a price of $6.95. SIGNED - NOT INSCRIBED - BY MARGARET ATWOOD ON THE TITLE PAGE. This is a first edition first printing and is a tight, clean, very bright and fresh copy with no markings of any kind.
Seller: Arthur Harry Fine Books, MISSISSAUGA, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret; [Al Purdy]. Surfacing. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: About fine copy in a fresh, fine, unclipped dustjacket (mylar-protected); title page INSCRIBED by Atwood and dated in year of publication to fellow Canuck poet Al Purdy: 'For Al / with my best / wishes as ever, / Peggy Atwood, 1972', accompanied by the author's cartoon drawing of a single hand breaking the surface of water, and her comment '(going down or coming up?)'. Purdy was a major Canadian poet and a close friend - as her 'Peggy' signature suggests. A superb association copy of the true, 'follow-the-flag' first edition. Photos and/or provenance available on request.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First Impression. Octavo (22cm); grey paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-192pp. Inscribed by Atwood on the title page to her editor, Pamela Fry: "For Pam Fry / my very splendid editor / with love / Peggy Atwood." Spine ends gently nudged, hint of sunning to upper and lower board edges, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $6.95), with gentle sunning to spine, and some pinpoint wear to corner tips; Near Fine. A distinguished copy of Atwood's second novel, touching on themes of gender identity, environmental conservation, and Canadian nationalism. Fry (1917-?) was employed at McClelland and Stewart from 1965-1971, working closely with Farley Mowat, Sinclair Ross, and Ernest Buckler. Significantly, she served as the editor for Atwood's debut, The Edible Woman (1969), as well as Surfacing, before taking a position with the federal government. An uncommonly good and early association copy.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.