Description
Laurence, Margaret (1926 – 1987). The Tomorrow-Tamer, Stories [First American Edition]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf | Borzoi Books, 1964. First American Edition. pp. ii, 3-236, 1. 8vo., measuring 6″ x 9.5″. Bound in publisher’s deep navy-blue cloth over boards, with gilt lettering to the spine and front board. Exceptionally well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the cloth extremities, contents equally without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; near fine and housed in very good+ strikingly illustrated, unclipped dustjaket (as designed by Warren Chappell) showing very light wear along the edges of the panels (dustjacket now housed in protective mylar cover), bearing original price of $4.95 Overall, very good+. See Spadoni & Donnelly, Citation #1677: “A Bibliography of McClelland and Stewart Imprints, 1909-1985” (#1677, p. 406). See also Gnarowski, p. 71; Hoy 2275 and 2388. Exceedingly rare offering of the First American Edition, published a mere one year following its first Canadian appearance as published by McClelland and Stewart in 1963 (please see our listing No. 6187). Hardcover.
”In her first collection of stories, Margaret Laurence writes of West Africa today – the people of the newly emerging nations, whose peoples, racing to catch up with the twentieth century, are experiencing violent cultural dislocation.” (#6188) $295.00
