Collins Robert Text (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. C. W. Jefferys (illustrator). (1968) 96 pp. Original purple covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends a bit bumped. Previous owner's name on front blank endpaper. DJ lightly soiled and foxed w/ modest edge wear. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Gibbs, Len (illustrations); Cocking, Peter (jacket and text design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine condition beige boards with brown spine lettering contained in a fine condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Epilogue and List of Illustrations. Illustrated by Len Gibbs with full color plate acrylic paintings and black-and-white drawings. "This classic memoir of growing up in Saskatchewan during the bleak years of the Depression has sold over 50,000 copies. In this new, illustrated edition, the fine realist paintings of well-known painter Len Gibbs accompany Robert Collins' humorous and poignant portrait of his boyhood. The result is a stunning and evocative book, to be treasured forever." - from the rear outer jacket. "Robert Collins tells his story with such exuberant affection that he makes those of us who didn't share his experience feel as though we were somehow deprived and underprivileged." - Globe and Mail. "In this immensely popular Canadian classic, Robert Collins describes his boyhood growing up in Saskatchewan during the bleak years of the Depression. Featuring the fine realist paintings of well-known painter Len Gibbs, this special illustrated edition evokes the mood of that era both through Collins's humorous and touching stories and through Gibbs's detailed acrylic paintings. Despite the hardships of the Depression, RObert Collins and his family shared many happy times on their prairie farm. Whether pusing an old car tire - as a stand-in for an Eaton's Glider two-wheeler or a Packard Super 8 - all over the farm, wielding a Wild West pistol made from a carved cedar shingle or playing hockey on a mirror-perfect frozen pond, young Collins enjoyed a rich and imaginative boyhood in the midst of grinding poverty. Throughout, Len Gibbs's magnificent paintings reflect a profound understanding of the prairies born from the artist's own boyhood there in the 1930s." - from the inner front jacket flap.

1975. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 216pp. Illustrations, notes. Preliminary pp.iii-iv has been removed and there is a "booksale" stamp on the title page, the dust jacket has minor edgewear. Articles by Per Nykrog, Pierre Jonin, Michelle Augier and Marie-Louise Ollier are in French. Time Period Middle Ages. Contributors include F.R.P. Akehurst (The Troubadours As Intellectuals), T.M. Andersson (The Emergence of Vernacular Literature in Iceland), Michelle Augier (A Propos de Quelques Conversions feminines dans l'Epopee francaise), M.S. Batts (The Emergence" of Medieval German Literature), R. Howard Bloch (The Text As Inquest: Form and Function in the Pseudo-Map Cycle), Robert Hollander (Babytalk in Dante's Commedia), W.T.H. Jackson (Persona and Audience in Two Medieval Love-lyrics), David L. Jeffrey (Franciscan Spirituality and the Rise of Early English Drama), Michael J. Jeffreys (The Literary Emergence of Vernacular Greek), Pierre Jonin (La " Clere" Espagne de Blancandrin), M. Dominica Legge (The Rise and Fall of Anglo-Norman Literature), Jeanne S. Martin (Character As Emblem: Generic Transformations in the Middle English Saint's Life), Per Nykrog (Le Jeu d'Adam: Une interpretation), Marie-Louise Ollier (Demande Sociale et Constitution d'un "Genre": la situation dans la France du XII siecle), D. Paloma (Chaucer, Cervantes, and the Birth of the Novel), Zumthor (Birth of a Language and Birth of a Literature). Some text in French Language. (Essays).