Bean Gerald (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise, this is a clean, tight copy. Dispatch within 24hrs from the UK. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). SUBTITLED : ` Tales of a Peace River Pioneer '. 228 pages. The author, Gerald Albert Bean was born near Alix, Alberta in 1920. Via a circuituous path, beginning in 1932, the family ended up at Eureka River, Alberta. This family biography is filled with bears and muskeg, pack horses and moose hunting. Add in a bit of farming and school experiences and you have it. Text assisted by colour (family) photographs and b/w (hunting) photographs. The catchy words of the title are explained in the text. Read more about : Old Fort St. John Trail, Genevieve Foster, Clear Prairie, coyote dogs, Norman Wells, Fred Lawrey, Besa River, Pin Eared Gray, and a pole bridge. Cond : Paper wrapper is gray with white lettering. Front cover graphic shows the author tending a fire at a hunting camp. P/O name and inscr. on first page - else volume is clean, tight, square, and bright. No stains, marks,tears, nor creases. Almost giftable !! Quote (p. 134) : " We didn't set up the tent that night and toward evening we saw a real good number of different kinds of game. We walked from our camp up to what they call Ten Mile Lake. There was a big game lick on the other side of the lake from us. It was all open country here and we saw ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. 8vo pp. x 229. book.