Toronto: Macmillan, 1978. Inscribed by Author; Green boards. Occasional tiny and light pencil marginalia in the text, original 1978 new book store purchase price in pencil in corner of front free endpaper, else very nearly fine. Dust jacket has nicks, tiny chips, and slight rubbing to ends of spine; green of spine sunned to blue; light rubbing to outer corners; VG otherwise, attractive. Inscribed by the author "For Ted / (use better glue) / Alice Munro". The inscribee was Edmonton poet, critic, and translator E.D. Blodgett (1935-2018), who won a Goveror-General's Award in 1996 for his poetry collection APOSTROPHES: WOMAN AT A PIANO. He also wrote ALICE MUNRO (1988), a major critical study in the Twayne's World Author Series (# 800), which project accounts for them becoming personal friends. This copy was bought direct from Blodgett's widow. Munro's fourth book, it won her a second (of three) Governor-General's Awards. Alice Munro won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. The glue allusion in the inscription refers to the fact that this book was manufactured perfect bound (like a paperback). This copy had the typical gutter cracks which occur when the book is read except with great care. As Blodgett used the copy for work on his book, it was had the cracks, which have been skillfully repaired and do not now show, but the buyer of this (or any other copy) would be well advised to get a paperback or other cheap copy for reading purposes and keep this one as a cultural artifact.; Octavo; Signed by Author 0770517129