Published by Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007
ISBN 10: 0786720026 ISBN 13: 9780786720026
Seller: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, U.S.A.
Hard cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Aislin (illustrator). In Very Good+ condition with Very Good+ Dustjacket. Mordecai Richler, like many of the characters he invented, was shaped by the tight, supportive Montreal neighborhood where he grew up. He in turn created an imaginary neighborhood one block over from the real one. Richler lived and breathed these streets even after he left them. He savored their sights, sounds, and smells and then described them in more than two dozen books over a period of some fifty years. The half-dozen streets west of St. Lawrence, between St. Viateur and Laurier, formed the heart of the Jewish working-class district in the 1940s and '50s. Here you could find Wilensky's, where a precocious boy once revealed to his classmates the condom he carried in his back pocket just in case. There is Jack and Moe's babershop and Schacter's Cigar & Soda, where Richler's father and his friends gathered to listen to the hockey game or play gin rummy. These few streets provided everything--from spiritual guidance to temptations of the flesh and a cast of characters as rough and complicated as the neighborhood they came from, which spring from the pages of his books with an intensity that reader's couldn't ignore. Mordecai Richler Was Here features selections from Richler's most memorable writings, The Apprenticeship of Diddy, Kravitz, Barney's Version, and Joshua Then and Now, among others, along with photographs and illustrations by politcal cartoonist Aislin. It offers an intimate look at the streets that shaped, and were shaped by, one of North America's greatest writers. As Richler himself said, I do feel forever rooted in Montreal's St. Urbain Street. That was my time, my place, and I have elected myself to get it right.
Published by Madison Press Books, Toronto, 2006
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Aislin (illustrator). First Edition. Tight square unmarked book in glossy dust jacket with slight rubbing to rear panel. ; 432 pages.
Published by Madison Press Books, Toronto, 2006
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Aislin (illustrator). First Edition. Tight square book in glossy dust jacket; unmarked but for dated initials to front endpaper. ; 432 pages.
Published by Madison Press Books, Toronto, 2006
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Aislin (illustrator). First Edition. Stiff unmarked book in barely rubbed dust jacket. ; 432 pages.
Published by Madson Press Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2006
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Aislin (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black cloth-effect paper covered boards, lettered in silver foil. New/as issued, color illus. dust jacket now in mylar. 432 pp., illus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
Published by Madison Press Books, Toronto, 2006
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: W. Fraser Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Aislin - Terry Mosher; (illustrator). First Edition. 432 pp. Black boards decoated in silver on the spine; gold endpapers; headband. Cover art and interior illustrations by Aislin. Lightly rubbed at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the front free endpaper. This collection contains: Introduction by Adam Gopnik; A Note About the Selection by Jonathan Webb; On Writing; St Urbain Then and Now; I Tried My Very Best to Escape; The Jewish Avenger; Life Is Fundamentally Absurd; The Sporting Life; I'm Given to Writing Love Stories; and It Was a Question of Survival; followed by The Last Word and a selected bibliography. Size: 8vo. Book.
Published by Madison, Toronto, 2006
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: Alhambra Books, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Aislin (illustrator). 432 pp. Dj and boards have edgewear.
Published by Madison Press Books, Toronto, 2006
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Illustrated by Aislin (illustrator). First Edition. New book in crisp DJ; still in publisher's shrink-wrap. ; 432 pages.
Published by Madison, Toronto
ISBN 10: 189733009X ISBN 13: 9781897330098
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
First Edition
[1-897330-09-X] 2006, 1st edition. (Cloth) Fine in fine dust jacket. 432pp. Silk bookmark incl. Illustrations by Aislin.