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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, 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. Dust jacket is bright and unmarked, without tears or chips. Pages are clean throughout. A tight, unmarked copy. The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1998. This collection won the Giller Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award upon publication. Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. 1

This beautiful first printing softcover edition is in fine condition. The pages are tight and unmarked, and the book remains square and clean throughout.

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. Ten stories in which Munro's hauntingly precise prose draws the reader into the layered inner lives of women in small-town Ontario — memory, loss, and the strange persistence of the past rendered with her signature restraint and depth. 2

Hardcover first edition, first printing, in fine condition. Dust jacket likewise fine and unmarked throughout. Pages are clean, crisp, and appear entirely unread. A light imperfection is noted to the bottom of the title page, disclosed in the interest of accuracy; it does not affect the text. Binding is tight and square. An exceptionally well-preserved copy of a landmark collection. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., Toronto, 2001, as "A Douglas Gibson Book." First edition, first printing. Alice Munro was a Canadian short story writer awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013, the first Canadian woman to receive the prize. She was also a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for Fiction and received the Man Booker International Prize in 2009 for her life's work. Munro had a longtime association with editor Douglas Gibson, and this collection was published under his imprint at McClelland & Stewart. The nine stories in this collection, several originally published in The New Yorker and the London Review of Books, include "Floating Bridge," "Family Furnishings," "Post and Beam," "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," and five others, exploring the complexities of middle age, memory, and moral life in Munro's signature southwestern Ontario settings. ISBN 0-7710-6525-6. Ships from Canada. International orders welcome through AbeBooks.