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A hardcover copy in very good condition. Boards are clean with a light bump to the bottom edge. Dust jacket is very good, with a light stain to the back bottom edge. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First printing. Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson. Bond Street Books / Penguin Random House Canada, 2024. The sixth novel in the Jackson Brodie series. Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum and two Costa Novel Awards for Life After Life and A God in Ruins.

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards and pages are clean and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket is fine, with a light mark to the lower left. An essentially unread, clean copy. Benedictus: A Book of Blessings by John O'Donohue. Bantam Press / Transworld Publishers, London, 2007. A collection of blessings for the significant thresholds of human life, written in O'Donohue's characteristic language of Celtic landscape and contemplative spiritual attention. O'Donohue worked on this collection for many years, and it was published just two months before his sudden death in January 2008 at the age of fifty-two, making it both his final complete work and his most intimate. Irish poet, priest, and philosopher from County Clare, he completed his doctorate in Philosophical Theology at the University of Tübingen. A rare copy in exceptional condition of a book that has brought solace and beauty to readers around the world.

A softcover copy in fine condition. No creasing to the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. A tight, clean copy. Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro. Penguin Modern Classics edition, Penguin Random House Canada, 2021. First printing of this edition. Originally published in 1971, this semi-autobiographical novel is widely considered one of Munro's most essential works, tracing a young woman's coming of age in small-town Ontario with the precision and quiet devastation that define her finest writing. Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards are clean and unmarked, with printed boards echoing the dust jacket design. Dust jacket is bright and clean, with light shelf wear to the edges. Pages are unmarked throughout. Cezanne by Elizabeth Elias Kaufman. Castle Books, a division of Book Sales Inc., Secaucus NJ, copyright 1980 Ottenheimer Publishers. An illustrated introduction to Cézanne's work, featuring colour reproductions of his paintings

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards are clean and unmarked, in blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. Dust jacket is bright, clean, and free of chips or tears. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. A tight, beautifully preserved copy. Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1990. A collection of ten stories widely regarded as among the finest of Munro's career. With her characteristically haunting prose and quiet formal mastery, Munro draws the reader into lives marked by the quiet devastations of ordinary existence — territory she navigates with an intimacy no other writer quite matches. Winner of the 1990 Trillium Book Award. Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. 3

A hardcover copy in fine condition. Boards are clean and unmarked, with printed boards echoing the dust jacket design. Dust jacket is bright, clean, and free of tears or chips. Pages are unmarked throughout. A well-preserved, like-new copy. Van Gogh by Elizabeth Elias Kaufman. Castle Books, a division of Book Sales Inc., Secaucus NJ, copyright 1980 Ottenheimer Publishers. An illustrated introduction to Van Gogh's work, featuring colour reproductions of his paintings.