Jacobsen Larry Signed (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Black line on bottom edge, otherwise a very nice soft cover copy without flaw.6 X 9" 309 pages. This book gives the reader vivid insights into farm life for an immigrant Danish boy in Alberta during the nineteen thirties and forties. The reader will also experience life in the rugged logging, mining and construction camps. Here you will meet some of the extraordinary characters the author toiled and drank with. During his early years he used up nine lives, but at the age of forty-four he entered graduate school for an MBA despite having only a Grade X education. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage**. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). *Signed by Author*.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. **Bundle Up & Save On Postage** Glossy pictorial hard cover. Crease left by a paper-clip top edge front end page, small pencil notes and paper-clip mark pages 150/1, inscribed by Larry Jacobsen title page, oblong 9.25 X 7.25" 160 pages plus an additional 45 page appendix. Perched high above the Thompson River in British Columbia lies the remains of a hamlet known as Walhachin, which means stony ground in the Skeetchestn language. Located halfway between Savona and Ashcroft it was a utopian orchard community of more than 4,000 acres. Conceived, planned, and built by Charles E. Barnes in the early 1900s and marketed mostly to the non-inheriting sons of wealthy English families. Illustrated throughout by vintage photographs. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Signed, without inscription, by author upon title page. Presents the history of Walhachin, a utopian orchard community of more than 4,000 acres situated in the Thompson River Valley between Ashcroft and Savona, B.C. The community was conceived of, planned, and built by Charles E. Barnes, with financing from the B.C. Development Association, which marketed it mostly to the sons of wealthy English families. 160, [42] pages. Many black and white reproductions of archival photos. List of sources. Includes a 42 page black and white facsimile of the original sales booklet promoting the community. Front free endpaper has been neatly removed, otherwise clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality example of this fascinating and unusual history.; 12mo; Signed by Author Very Good No dust jacket as issued.…