Clyde Rose Editor (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Thirteen writers contribute to these 216 pages. Among them: Helen Porter and Patrick O'Flaherty. Read more about : Sister Mary Star of the Sea, Canadian consciousness, Jack Brewer, Night School, Spook Cove, Port aux Basques, Crawfie, and Quiller. Gerry Squires contributed b/w drawings. Cond : Paper wrapper is brown. Cover drawing shows the part of a spruce branch referenced in the title. Tight in binding. No names, marks, creases, nor tears. Clean, minimal wear. Quote (p. 102) : " ` I jumped up offa the chesterfield and told him I was just leaving. He looks at Eunice with her blouse all undone, and her skirt up around her hips, and then he looks at me. He takes his hands away from behind his back and I saw he had a rifle in them. A bloody great blunderbuss it was, the gun he used for ._._.'._. ." Size: 8vo. B/W Drawings (illustrator). …

Stiff Card Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps edition published simultaneously with the hardcover. Fiction, essays, and folklore from a variety of Newfoundland writers. 219 pages, illustrated. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The Blasty Bough; edited by Clyde Rose; Breakwater Books Ltd, Newfoundland, 1976. From the blurb A selection of folk scholarly and creative literature of Newfoundland. This book is dedicated to all those Newfoundland writers whose labours made this book possible. This book, 219 pages is in fine condition in a near-fine dust jacket that is now in a protective mylar wrap. A very scarce title. Gerry Squires; (illustrator).…