Language: English
Published by Buchman Bookworks, Inc., 2024
ISBN 10: 1637211643 ISBN 13: 9781637211649
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Language: English
Published by Buchman Bookworks, Inc., 2024
ISBN 10: 1637211643 ISBN 13: 9781637211649
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
paperback. Condition: Very Good.
Language: English
Published by Historical Society of Alberta, 1981
Seller: The Bookseller, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Minor shelf wear to blue cloth hardcover. Dust jacket has some rubbing. Otherwise a tight, unmarked volume. Index. xxix, 175 pp.
Published by Historical Society of Alberta, Calgary, Alberta, 1981
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. "The four brothers and one sister of the Destrube family, whose story this is, were 'typical' [Alberta] settlers only in their youth and their determination to build a life for themselves on the frontier. Children of a French banker, raised in the middlee class comfort of Victorian London, they proved to be well provided with the same qualities that made successful settlers of Ontario farm boys or Ukrainian peasants; intelligence, adaptability and the willingness to work hard. Once they had established themselves, their sound education and cosmopolitan background almost inevitably made them community leaders. The family's happy and increasingly prosperous life was abruptly and savagely shattered by the First World War. Maurice, the oldest, who had remained in Alberta to look after the family enterprises was left to pick up the pieces and eventually to write the story." - dust jacket. xxxvi, 175, [2 map] pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Gift greetings atop front free endpaper otherwise book clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this special family story.; Historical Series of Alberta Vol. IV; 8vo.