New York: Random House Inc, 1979. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Slim Octavo. 210 pp, stated First American Edition, ten short stories. 5.9" x 8.6" white cloth back with gilt spine letters. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, paper well-preserved. Exterior Near Fine, little or no wear. Unclipped, illustrated DJ, in polyester protector, with very light edgewear top spine. .

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Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England’s W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.

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Bookseller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 009189
Title: The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose
Author: Munro, Alice
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First American Edition
ISBN 10: 0394506820
ISBN 13: 9780394506821
Publisher: Random House Inc
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1979
Size: Slim Octavo
Keywords: Alice Munro - Canadian author - 2013 Novel Prize for Literature -Alice Ann Munro (née Laidlaw ; born 10 July 1931)
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