The Giver (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
LOWRY, Lois. The Giver. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.
8vo. Full deep red leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Decorative gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. [x], 225 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate (present but unadhered). Originally published Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Lois Lowry (b. 1937) has published more than forty books for young readers across five decades, winning the Newbery Medal twice — for Number the Stars (1990) and The Giver (1994) — and the Margaret Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adult literature in 2007. The Giver is her most widely read and most discussed work, a novel that has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, been translated into more than forty languages, and generated a body of classroom study and literary debate unusual for a children's book.
Jonas is twelve years old, living in a Community that has eliminated pain, fear, war, and hatred through a system of enforced Sameness. Families are assigned rather than born. Emotions are managed through daily medication. The concept of colour does not exist in the Community's perception; its citizens see only shades of grey. At the annual Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is given his life assignment: he is to become the new Receiver of Memory, the single individual in the Community who holds the accumulated knowledge of the world before Sameness was imposed. His training is conducted by the Giver — the current Receiver, an old man who begins to transmit to Jonas memories of snow, of colour, of music, of love, and of war. As Jonas comes to understand what the Community has sacrificed to achieve its tranquillity, the novel arrives at one of the most considered moral confrontations in young adult literature.
The Giver was challenged and banned in school systems across the United States almost immediately after publication, on grounds that included its treatment of euthanasia, suicide, and the questioning of authority — objections that amount, in effect, to a description of the book's virtues. It was adapted into a film in 2014, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Jeff Bridges as the Giver, Meryl Streep, and Brenton Thwaites as Jonas, with Taylor Swift in a supporting role.
Near fine. Some mild markings along gilt edges; otherwise fine throughout. Bookplate present but unadhered.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000547
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The Giver (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
The Giver (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)
LOWRY, Lois. The Giver. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.
8vo. Full deep red leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Decorative gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. [x], 225 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate (present but unadhered). Originally published Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Lois Lowry (b. 1937) has published more than forty books for young readers across five decades, winning the Newbery Medal twice — for Number the Stars (1990) and The Giver (1994) — and the Margaret Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adult literature in 2007. The Giver is her most widely read and most discussed work, a novel that has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, been translated into more than forty languages, and generated a body of classroom study and literary debate unusual for a children's book.
Jonas is twelve years old, living in a Community that has eliminated pain, fear, war, and hatred through a system of enforced Sameness. Families are assigned rather than born. Emotions are managed through daily medication. The concept of colour does not exist in the Community's perception; its citizens see only shades of grey. At the annual Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is given his life assignment: he is to become the new Receiver of Memory, the single individual in the Community who holds the accumulated knowledge of the world before Sameness was imposed. His training is conducted by the Giver — the current Receiver, an old man who begins to transmit to Jonas memories of snow, of colour, of music, of love, and of war. As Jonas comes to understand what the Community has sacrificed to achieve its tranquillity, the novel arrives at one of the most considered moral confrontations in young adult literature.
The Giver was challenged and banned in school systems across the United States almost immediately after publication, on grounds that included its treatment of euthanasia, suicide, and the questioning of authority — objections that amount, in effect, to a description of the book's virtues. It was adapted into a film in 2014, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Jeff Bridges as the Giver, Meryl Streep, and Brenton Thwaites as Jonas, with Taylor Swift in a supporting role.
Near fine. Some mild markings along gilt edges; otherwise fine throughout. Bookplate present but unadhered.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000547
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LOWRY, Lois. The Giver. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2013.
8vo. Full deep red leather. Spine with raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Decorative gilt design to covers. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. [x], 225 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Signed by the author on the special signature page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, edition card, and bookplate (present but unadhered). Originally published Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.
Lois Lowry (b. 1937) has published more than forty books for young readers across five decades, winning the Newbery Medal twice — for Number the Stars (1990) and The Giver (1994) — and the Margaret Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in young adult literature in 2007. The Giver is her most widely read and most discussed work, a novel that has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, been translated into more than forty languages, and generated a body of classroom study and literary debate unusual for a children's book.
Jonas is twelve years old, living in a Community that has eliminated pain, fear, war, and hatred through a system of enforced Sameness. Families are assigned rather than born. Emotions are managed through daily medication. The concept of colour does not exist in the Community's perception; its citizens see only shades of grey. At the annual Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is given his life assignment: he is to become the new Receiver of Memory, the single individual in the Community who holds the accumulated knowledge of the world before Sameness was imposed. His training is conducted by the Giver — the current Receiver, an old man who begins to transmit to Jonas memories of snow, of colour, of music, of love, and of war. As Jonas comes to understand what the Community has sacrificed to achieve its tranquillity, the novel arrives at one of the most considered moral confrontations in young adult literature.
The Giver was challenged and banned in school systems across the United States almost immediately after publication, on grounds that included its treatment of euthanasia, suicide, and the questioning of authority — objections that amount, in effect, to a description of the book's virtues. It was adapted into a film in 2014, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Jeff Bridges as the Giver, Meryl Streep, and Brenton Thwaites as Jonas, with Taylor Swift in a supporting role.
Near fine. Some mild markings along gilt edges; otherwise fine throughout. Bookplate present but unadhered.
This book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000547
