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This evocative and haunting collection is set in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, a remote region where Gaelic is still spoken, old legends live on, and the same cold sea that washes the Hebrides beats against the granite cliffs. With a tearing lyricism 'The Lost Salt Gift of Blood' lays bare the joys, the fears, the darkness, and the shining hopes of communities whose isolation is at once a curse and a blessing.
Alistair MacLeod is one of Canada's most acclaimed writers, yet his entire life work consists of little more than a dozen published short stories. This volume contains all of them.
"MacLeod writes with the sort of intensity that gives his beautifully shaped sentences the haunting power of the Gaelic songs which are within him."
THE TIMES
"MacLeod's melancholy and startlingly beautiful stories are like live wires, their currents of memory and grief shocking through their unprotected simplicity ... each one is like a novel boiled down to its essence."
OBSERVER
"MacLeod belongs to that very special breed of writer who uses a specific place and its people to convey a universal experience. This is a fine collection."
GLASGOW HERALD
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Carol Noel; (illustrator). First Edition. 187 pp. Beige boards lettered in gilt on the spine, Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket with some fading around the edges; no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Carol Noel. This story collection contains: In the Fall; The Vastness of the Dark; The Lost Salt Gift of Blood; The Return; The Golden Gift of Grey; The Boat; and The Road to Rankin's Point. Size: 8vo. Book. Seller Inventory # 230030
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. 1st Edition. color pictorial jacket, previous owner's inscription inside the front cover, small ink stamp inside the front cover, the binding hinge is cracked at the tittle page, age staining inside the back cover, the binding hinge is cracked inside the back cover, jacket has not been price clipped, edgewear to the jacket with few tiny tears along the edges, few tiny green specks to the front cover of the jacket -looks like paint, Seller Inventory # 000111
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. First Edition. Tan cloth boards. Binding is sound and tight. Faint foxing to endpapers. Slight wear to corners of spine. Corners are not bumped. No writing or markings. Dust jacket is chipped, with multiple short edge tears. Spine is sunned. Foxing to verso of dust jacket. Dust jacket is protected in new archival mylar. 187 pages. -- Please feel free to ask for additional information, or detailed photos. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking. US orders ship USPS from Niagara Falls, NY. Canadian orders ship from Ontario. Seller Inventory # 11019
Book Description Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for a small spot stain on bottom edge of text block that affects the last 10 pages, and lightly bumped extremities. Signed on the title page. There is also an ink mark on the front endpaper, where it would appear that McLeod began to sign his name, then either decided ( or was asked ) to do so on the title page. The jacket has some wear and rubbing to edges and folds, and the spine is is sunfaded, but still very legible. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 14386
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good. book. Seller Inventory # D8S0-3-M-0771055749-4
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. Carol Noel (cover) (illustrator). First. Original tan tweedy cloth on boards. DJ not clipped, but light chipping along head. No writing and no other damage. The first full-length book by this author, comprised of seven stories: In the Fall, The Vastness of the Dark, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, The Return, The Golden Gift of Grey, The Boat, and The Road to Rankin's Point. 187 pp. NOTE: Since this book is on consignment, the usual 20 per cent discount to booksellers does not apply. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 004677
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair to Good. 1st Edition. 187 pp. Price-clipped dj rubbed, chips and tears along edges - now Brodart-protected. Front hinge weak. Boards have edgewear, lightly bumped bottom corners. Light scattered spotting top edge. Signed and inscribed by author to "Bill and Myrna [sic] Mitchell with all good feelings". Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 034362
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 187 pages. First Canadian edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Carol Noel. His 1st book, 7 short stories. Fine book in fine dust jacket with very slight fading to the spine. Price clipped. A beautiful copy!. Seller Inventory # 773847370
Book Description Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Carol Noel (illustrator). First Edition. White with black pinstripe cloth, gilt, wrapped in a sunned pictorial dust jacket, with minor bumping near the top edge. Clean interior. Signed on the title page. Contains the stories: In the Fall, The Vastness of the Dark, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, The Return, The Golden Gift of Grey, The Boat, and The Road to Rankin's Point. Size: Octavo. Author's Signature Laid in. Book. Seller Inventory # 30284
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good (pc). First Edition (SIGNED). | Very good copy in lightly edgeworn, spine-sunned, price-clipped dustjacket (mylar-protected); title page SIGNED by the author. Laid in is 17" x 11" poster (folded twice) announcing MacLeod's residency as writer-in-residence at Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C. (circa late '90s?). Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 007144