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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, Inc., Toronto, 1972.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Atwood on the title page. Very tiny bumps to the upper cover corners, else fine in near fine dust jacket.
Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.
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.