MUNRO, Alice
Selected Stories
Alfred A. Knopf, New York: 1996
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First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 545 pages. One of the better anthologies of stories from the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. A clean very near fine copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine and in a very near fine dust jacket.
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