George E Nelson Selected By (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. light stains to page edges, heavy rubbing and a few small tears around edges of dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good clean tight copy. Shelf wear. Tanning along fore edges and pages. Bumping along edges and tips of boards. Rubbing and fading to boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Binding is so loose that the book will stay open to any given page. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Errata slip pasted to ffep. Black cloth boards, 1/4 grey cloth, ink stamped inignia of publisher on front panel as well as title, also printed on spine. Introduction by Mazo de la Roche. Some of the contributors are: Adele Wiseman, Hugh Garner, Pierre Berton, Ted Allan, Robertson Davies, Farley Mowat & Arthur Hailey. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. In Good Used Condition. Name On Inside Front Cover. With Wear/Tear To Corners, Edges of Dust Jacket - For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. ~ Vintage 1960 Book Club Edition The twenty-five selections cover a wide range of human experiences. "The Sacrifice," a powerful first novel by Adele Wiseman, tells the pathetic-heroic story of a Jewish immigrant butcher and his family. "Farewell to Ville Marie," is an excerpt from Thomas B. Costains High Towers. In "An Open Letter to Husbands," Dr. Marion Hilliard "gallops gaily" into the explanation of the husband's part in building a happy marriage. Also included are "The Golden Age," Thomas H. Raddalls narration of a man and woman in a time of love and war; "My Lord, I Am Not Guilty," a short novel by Frances Shelley Wees which covers the intricate solution of the murder of a man who was handsome, rich, and unprincipled. NORTHERN LIGHTS offers something for everyone, and although a number of the stories deal with or are set in Canada, they are in no way restricted in their locale or appeal.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Satisfaisant. 640 p. One mark to lower edge. Dust jacket a bit worn. code 1513.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. 736 p.

Condition: Very Good. Garden City New York,: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City New York, 1960. Book Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Introduction by Mazo de la Roche. Very good gray hardcover. Very good blue DJ. Light wear, soiling chipped rear panel of DJ. (1960), 8vo, 736pp. Watters p. 352 A Checklist of Canadian Literature 1628-1960, Contents: The sacrifice / Adele Wiseman --A trip for Mrs. Taylor / Hugh Garner --The firing squad / Colin McDougall --Farewell to Ville Marie / Thomas B. Costain --An open letter to husbands / Marion Hilliard --The gadabouts / Gabrielle Roy --The legend of Headless Valley / Pierre Berton --Private Turvey becomes acting senior officer / Earle Birney --Integrity / Flora McCrea Eaton --Judith Hearne / Brian Moore --Grey owl / Howard O'Hagan --The people behind this peculiar nation / Hugh MacLennan --"This may hurt a little" / Eric Nichol --Call off your cats / Eva-Lis Wuorio --Lies my father told me / Ted Allan --Ten days from Samuel Marchbanks/ Robertson Davies --The Huckelmeyer story / Vera Johnson --The golden age / Thomas H. Raddall-- M'Lord, I am not guilty / Frances Shelley Wees --Rip cord / Arthur Hailey --The wild ones / Robert Christie --A tribute to Lionel Shapiro / Ralph Allen --Battle tactics / Farley Mowat --The old woman / Joyce Marshall. 736 pp. …

Condition: Good. Doubleday, 1958. 640 pages. Includes: Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan, Rigmarole by Morley Callaghan: Mrs. Golightly and the first Convention by Ethel Wilson; A Prairie Vagabond by Sir Gilbert Parker; The Worker in Sandalwood by Marjorie Pickthall; The Czech Dog by W. G. Hardy; Read! by Lord Beaverbrook; Jalna by Mazo de la Roche; Dieppe by Lionel Shapiro; The Princess and the Wild Ones by W.O. Mitchell; Resurrection by Thomas H. Raddall; The Street that Got Mislaid by Patrick Waddington; We Hire a Witch by Kenneth McNeill Wells; The Awakening by Bruce Hutchison; The Movies Come to Gull Point by Will R. Bird; The School on the Little Water Hen by Gabrielle Roy; Whit Musky by Scott Young and Vignettes of French Canada by Thomas B. Costain. Our copy does not have a dust jacket. Green textured paper on boards binding. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarked. Good. …

Cloth. Dustwrapper. 640pp. Dustwrapper damaged, else Good.