Marian Engel — Bear: A Novel

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977 . First edition. Cloth. A smart scarce first UK edition of Marian Engel's award-winning controversial fifth novel, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition, published the year following the original Canadian edition.  In the publisher's original black cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper.  The fifth novel of Canadian author Marian Engel, telling the story of a lonely archivist sent to work in northern Ontario, where she enters into a romantic relationship with a bear. This work is Engel's most famous and controversial novel, winning the Governor General's Literary Award in 1976. In the publisher's original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Dust wrapper is very smart, with minor sunning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.