New York: Mc-Graw-Hill Book Company, 1973. Hardcover. very good. 1st US Edition. 5p.l.,224pp. Octavo in original black cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Very small light white stain on edge of spine and very light bumping to top of spine. Sand coloured endpapers. Clean, tight text block. In dust jacket price clipped. A lovely copy. Very good condition. The first US edition of Munro's award winning first book. 1973

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Bookseller: Aquila Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 131879
Title: Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories
Author: Munro, Alice
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - very good
Quantity Available: 1
ISBN 10: 0070440484
ISBN 13: 9780070440487
Publisher: Mc-Graw-Hill Book Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1973
Keywords: Governor General's Award Winner Fiction 1968|Canadian Lit.|Alice Munro|Can Lit|Canadian Literature|Short Stories

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Price Clipped: When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...