ANDRE ALEXIS

Asylum

McClelland & Stewart. 2008. (ISBN: 9780771006692) Hard Cover . Good.

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Book number: 0082973

Catalogue: General Fiction

Keywords: 9780771006692

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Asylum

Toronto Ontario Canada, McClelland & Stewart. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780771006692) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clear Brodart Covering, Cream boards, bronze stamped lettering. Pictorial dust jacket; not price clipped. 480 pages. "This is a novel of fortunes lost and found, of politics and vain ambition, of love and memory and the impossibility of finding home. Deeply moving, gorgeously written, infused with an impeccable dry wit, [it] reveals our innermost longings and confirms [the author] as one of the most compelling and accomplished writers writing today." (dust jacket flap) By the author of the award-winning "Childhood". Uncommon. [Shipping at cost]. Near Fine/Near Fine.

-- Well Read Books (formerly Literacy Nanaimo)

Book number: 003292

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Canadiana Andre Alexis Fiction Ottawa Tuscany 9780771006692

ALEXIS, ANDRÉ

Asylum

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780771006692). Cloth, 8vo. 480 pp. As new copy of the author's long-awaited second novel. Fine/Fine.

-- Spadina Road Books (ABAC/ILAB)

Book number: 004806

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction 9780771006692

ALEXIS, ANDRE.

Childhood (Very Fine SIGNED copy)

Toronto, ON, Canada, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1998. 1998, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0771006659) Soft Cover. First Canadian Edition. 8vo, ill. softcover (no Canadian hardcover issued). First novel. Winner of the Chapters First Novel Award and Trillium Prize. Very Fine, As New, unread copy. Trinidad-born author, now living in Canada. SIGNED on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

-- Inno Dubelaar Books

Book number: 3573

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Canadian Literature West Indian Black 0771006659

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood: A Novel

New York, New York, U.S.A. Henry Holt & Co. 1998, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0805059814). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾ tall. pp.259 A story about love, memory and forgiveness, persistence and the potency of the past. clean tight unread copy. Fine/Fine.

-- Judith Patton Books

Book number: 007113

Catalogue: Fiction Literature

Keywords: Fiction Ontario 0805059814

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood: A Novel

Henry Holt & Co, New York, New York, U.S.A. 1998. First American Edition, Hard Cover. As New/As New. near fine hard cover in near fine dj. clean tight and unmarked. nf/nf .

-- Dustjacket Books and Treasures

Book number: 58356

Catalogue: Canadian Authors

Keywords: Novel, Ontario

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood

Toronto, ON, Canada, McClelland & Stewart. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0771006659). Soft Cover/French Flaps. Near Fine 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.265 clean tight copy minuscule crease to front lower edge. Very Good.

-- Judith Patton Books

Book number: 007579

Keywords: Fiction Literature Fiction_general Ontario_fiction 0771006659

ALEXIS, ANDRÉ,

Childhood.

NY: Henry Holt, (1998). First Edition. The first American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

-- Ken Lopez - Bookseller

Book number: 914409

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood

NY: Henry Holt & Company, 1998. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805059814. Illustrated by Bean, Brian. 362 pages; Near Fine/Fine. Full number sequence. Very soft bump to back bottom corner tip. Boards are straight, tips are pointed, spine is square and pages are clean. DJ is Fine! In protective sleeve. An excellent gift! Childhood is Andre Alexis's beautifully crafted debut novel. It is a story about love, about memory - and forgiveness - about the persistence, the potency, of the past.. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket .

-- White Unicorn Books

Book number: 12916

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: 0805059814 Fiction

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood

Toronto, ON, Canada, McClelland & Stewart. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0771006659). French Wraps, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition trade softcover with french flaps. Number line beginning with "1". Signed by author on title page. FINE, otherwise unmarked copy. Award winning first novel. 265pp. Fine. Signed By Author.

-- Turn-The-Page Books

Book number: 8459

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Fiction General Ontario 0771006659

ALEXIS, ANDRÉ

Childhood

Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, no date (1997?). Softcover . Advance excerpt. Octavo, pp (12), stapled in illustrated card covers. A few creases, VG clean copy others. Prints a letter from the editor and chapter one of the forthcoming first novel (published spring, 1998) of this African-Canadian author.

-- Steven Temple Books (ABAC/ILAB)

Book number: 32871

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Black Literature Vj

ALEXIS, ANDRÉ

Childhood

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart. 1998, First Edition. (ISBN: 0-7710-0665-9). Trade Paperback, 8vo. 265 pp. Signed and dated by the author on title-page. A very nice copy of the author's second book and first novel. Fine. Signed by Author.

-- Spadina Road Books (ABAC/ILAB)

Book number: 005458

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction 0771006659

ANDRE ALEXIS

Childhood

McClelland & Stewart, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. '() Childhood, André Alexis's brilliant first novel, is driven by Thomas MacMillan's orderly, almost leisurely desire to piece together the strange and unspoken facts of his ''singular childhood.'' Abandoned at birth to the erratic care of his grandmother, he is reclaimed at age 10, with little fanfare, by his mother and mentored in adolescence by her boyfriend, the eccentric and learned Henry Wing. Once grown into an equally eccentric and learned young man himself, Thomas cultivates a hunger for the things he wasn't told as a child. As he writes of the mystery of his unpredictable but not unloving mother, ''ignorance has brought the only lasting passion I've known…. I might have loved my mother less if I'd known her better.'' This Childhood departs from the usual model of grudgeful parental exposés by being neither bitter nor particularly therapeutic about its narrator's often indifferent upbringing. ''For a frightened child,'' Thomas notes, ''I was self-possessed,'' and he still '''' ID: mon0000073326 .

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ALEXIS, ANDRE,

Childhood.

NY: Henry Holt, 1998. First Edition. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good in wrappers.

-- Ken Lopez - Bookseller

Book number: 700102

Keywords: Uncorrected Proof

ANDRE ALEXIS

Childhood: A Novel

Holt Paperbacks, 2000. Paperback. 0805059822 Very good. Clean text. Email for further information.. Very Good .

-- Robinson Street Books

Book number: BING825X11460

Keywords: 0805059822

ALEXIS, ANDRE,

Childhood.

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1998. First Edition, 8VO, 265 pp. Fine in stiff wraps
¶ Author's first novel. Signed by Alexis. True first. No hardcover edition published. Winner of the Chapters First Novel Prize. Trade paperback with French flaps. A fine copy.

-- Neil Williams, Bookseller

Book number: 6300

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Canadian Literature 0771006659

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood a Novel

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1998. 0805059814. ARC Advance Reading Copy; First Printing. Softcover. ISBN: 0805059814. Very Good+ in wrappers. ; 1.05 x 8.6 x 5.85 Inches; 259 pages.

-- RareBookCellar.com

Book number: 21929

Keywords: 0805059814

ALEXIS, ANDRE,

CHILDHOOD.

Alexis, Andre. CHILDHOOD. NY: Henry Holt and Company, c1998. First American edition, signed by author, new hardcover in d/j, 259pp., 8vo.,.

-- Columbia Books ABAA/ILAB

Book number: 28644

ALEXIS, ANDRÉ,

Childhood.

(Toronto): McClelland & Stewart, (1998). First Edition. Fine in self-wrappers.

-- Ken Lopez - Bookseller

Book number: 914408

ANDRE ALEXIS

Childhood

McClelland & Stewart, 2000. Paperback. Like New. Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases Remainder mark() Childhood, André Alexis's brilliant first novel, is driven by Thomas MacMillan's orderly, almost leisurely desire to piece together the strange and unspoken facts of his ID: mon0000028268 .

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ANDRE ALEXIS

Childhood

McClelland & Stewart, 2000. Paperback. Like New. Clean, tight. Remainder Mark() Childhood, André Alexis's brilliant first novel, is driven by Thomas MacMillan's orderly, almost leisurely desire to piece together the strange and unspoken facts of his ID: mon0000132626 .

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ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood

M&S, 2000, Good Condition, Paperback, 265 pag. .

-- Anglo-Dutch Books

Book number: 101042274

Catalogue: Literature

ALEXIS, ANDRE

Childhood

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, McClelland & Stewart. 1998. (ISBN: 0771006659). Ppbk, 8vo. pp. 265, signed on the title page. Very Good/No Dj. Signed.

-- The Edmonton Book Store

Book number: 051780

Catalogue: Signed Canada

Keywords: Fiction Ontario 0771006659

ALEXIS, ANDRE (CONTRIBUTOR). MULHALLEN, KAREN (ED.)

Descant Number 43.

Descant, Winter 1983/84. 1983, 1st Edition. Soft cover. First printing. 129 pp. 8vo, ill. wraps. Alexis contributes 5 pp. of prose: Impressions of Africa. Early Alexis publication. Fine copy.

-- Inno Dubelaar Books

Book number: Cexsc12111

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Canadian Literature

ALEXIS, ANDRÉ

Despair and other stories.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1994. 212p, first printing, dj. Second novel by the Afro-Trinidadian Canadian author..

-- Bolerium Books

Book number: 77731

Keywords: African American Modern First Edition Canada Caribbean