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Margaret Atwood. The Edible Woman. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1969.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Canadian edition, first printing. Atwood's third book and first novel. Very Good to Very Good+ lightly bumped and edgeworn hardcover, previous owner's ink signature and date on FFEP, in a Very Good to Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket which is intact but heavily edgeworn, especially at the top and bottom edges of the jacket spine. Several small chunks out along lower rear jacket edge. Jacket now protected in a Brodart. A clean but visibly cosmetically worn copy of this uncommon early title; see photographs for additional details.
Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Margaret Atwood. The Edible Woman. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1969.
Price: US$600.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition inscribed by Margaret Atwood on the title page. Slight cocking to spine. Slight smudge to front end paper. Minor bumping to spine ends. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Very good jacket. Price-clipped. Slight glue residue to interior of spine. Some wear to edges. Overall a nice first edition inscribed by Atwood.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1969.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. 8vo, hardcover, dustjacket. Text is Nearly Fine with sharp corners, firm square binding, fresh cloth. Neat owner's name and date on front free endpaper. Also, a very small neat notation on the next page, and neat owner's stamp (about 1.5") on the half-title page. Fragile dust jacket is not price-clipped, very slightly sun-faded (less than usual), worn at tips with slight loss, a couple of edge-tears, 5/8" chip to base of spine. A slightly better than average copy of this fragile and uncommon Canlit classic. Scans available. INSCRIBED on the title page "For M_____ - best wishes - Margaret Atwood".
Seller: Inno Dubelaar Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. THE EDIBLE WOMAN. McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, Montreal, 1969.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Very slight spine lean, a fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with touch of wear at edges, 20 mm closed tear and associated wrinkle at bottom edge of front panel, and small bookstore price sticker at lower fore-edge of rear flap. An attractive, superior copy. (#138687)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Margaret Atwood. The Edible Woman. McClelland And Stewart, 1969.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Price Clipped Jacket. Orange Decorative Jacket. True First Of Her First Novel. Toronto Edition. Beautiful Fresh Copy.Rare In This Condition.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Atwood, Margaret. The Edible Woman. Toronto McClelland and Stewart Limited 1969, 1969.
Price: US$934.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. 281pp. Octavo. Original Maroon cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Some very minor professional repairs done to spine and dust jacket. Clean, tight text block. Small tape mark on attached front endpaper. In dust jacket, not price clipped. Lightly worn around edges and spine, small crease on back. A very nice copy. very good The first novel by the two time Governor General's Award winner. A rare first edition of a strong protofeminist novel. Signed by Atwood on the title page.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
Atwood, Margaret. THE EDIBLE WOMAN. Signed. McClelland & Stewart, (1969), Toronto, 1969.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Atwood, Margaret. THE EDIBLE WOMAN. Presentation Copy. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1969). First Edition of Margaret Atwood's first novel Inscribed by her on the title-page. "For. With best wishes, Margaret Atwood." A fine copy in burgundy cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a near fine Charles Pachter designed pictorial dustwrapper showing some minimal use. 8vo. 281 pp. Superb copy.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
ATWOOD, Margaret.. The Edible Woman.. Toronto McClelland and Stewart, 1969.
Price: US$5445.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author; 8vo; minor spotting to rear endpaper, light age-toning, else unmarked internally; publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettering to spine, light bumping to corners and spine ends, light spotting to top edge, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket, small chip to front panel at the fold, slight chipping to corners and spine ends, associated creasing to extremities, slight fading to spine, else very good; 1pp ALS loosely inserted, on white University of Alberta headed paper, dated 'September 23 '69', folded 3 times, minor spotting and toning. A lovely association copy of Atwood's first novel, inscribed to her friend Jerome Hamilton Buckley on the title page: 'For J.E.H Buckley / with best wishes, / Peggy atwood / 1969.', together with 1pp ALS addressed to the same and dated 'September 23 '69'. The letter, signed 'Peggy A.', is dated from Atwood's time teaching at the University of Alberta, and is on the Department of English's white headed paper. She opens by commenting on the release of the novel and refers to the present copy and another work: 'The novel is out in both Canada and England (the Sunday Times liked it) and a copy is making its way to you. The other book [The Journals of Susanna Moodie] has been held up - though it's coming out as a C.B.C. record in November!' The majority of the letter details Atwood's thesis (presumably her PhD thesis, The English Metaphysical Romance, which she pursued for two years but did not complete): 'I'm about to settle back into the thesis. What I now propose to do is to put all the mother-goddess material first (as chapters one and two). [.] I haven't heard yet from Mr. Kiely, but will charge ahead unless I get an outraged letter from him telling me I'm WRONG.' Closing, she makes a rather telling remark about the publisher: 'I doubt that my thesis will turn into a book - I'm developing a phobia about publishers. Are they all as chaotic as McClelland and Stewart, I wonder?' A rare first edition by the two-time Governor General's Award winner, with a contemporary presentation inscription and delightful autograph letter.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom