Nesbitt Leonard (10 results)

Cloth. Condition: About Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wm. W. Perehudoff (illustrator). First Edition. History of the Alberta Wheat Pool and the Pool movement in general from 1923 to 1950. 413 p. illus., ports. 23 cm. Illustrated by Wm. W. Perehudoff. Interior of the book is very clean and bright and is unmarked. Binding is tight and square and there is no wear to the cloth. The unclipped dustjacket is quite bright and clean showing some top edge wear. Weight, 731g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Wm. W. Perehudoff (illustrator). History of the Alberta Wheat Pool. 413 pp + index. Clothe-covered boards spotted and worn, fraying at extremities. Library stamps and stickers (including discard stamp). History of the Alberta Wheat Pool by one of its founders or executive members.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. VG hardcover-no DJ - see actual image. Inscribed by author to his sister in 1963. History of the Alberta Wheat Pool as told by its former superintendent who was raised in Lindsay Ontario after arriving in Canada from Ireland.413 pp. Illustrations by Wm. W. Perehudoff. History-Alberta. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 413, [5] p. 23 cm. No publication or copyright date. Light wear to corners. A bit of fading to top of spine and top edge. Foxing started on top edge of text block. Pages lightly tanned. Dustjacket has moisture rippling, wear along edges and spine ends. Foxing started on jacket spine and front panel. The history of the formation of the Alberta Wheat Pool. B&W Photographs.

(1963?). (Cloth) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 413pp. Plus index, illus., ports. A history of the Alberta Wheat Pool.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED ; ` A Wheat Pool Story '. When these 420 pages - includes INDEX - came out the three prairie provinces accounted for 72% of Canada's total farming area. Wheat was the important grain crop on much of that land. LEARN more about : Right Honourable J.G. Gardiner, 3 Northern, total hog marketing, feed wheat, freight rates, flour millers, Nanton, U.G.G., Winnipeg Grain Exchange, Saskatchewan Co-operative Elevator Company, and Senate Railway Committee. Tabular data and a section of b/w photographs accompany text. William W, Perehudoff has done some b/w drawings as well. Page 378 on, devoted to biographic sketches of the `pool' directors. Cond : Boards are brown with black lettering. End-papers are white . D.J. is light orange with black lettering. D.J. graphic is a big sky and a waving wheat field. Tight in binding. Clean. D.J. spine sunned. D.J. has minor wedge wear but now protected in mylar. Light age-toning. No names nor marks. Excellent reference copy ! Quote (p. 397) : " ` In the early days, the Woods farm at Carstairs seemed to have more than its share of `freeloaders'. Wandering artists, itinerant preachers, or just job hunters could count on a few days or even weeks of free board if they could carry on any kind of intelligent conversation. Dad would never ask them to move on even if they had ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.

[no date]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 413pp. Photographs, illustrations, index. Illustrations by Wm. W. Perehudoff. Locale: Alberta; Calgary--Alberta. (Western Canada, Agriculture, Business, Marketing, Wheat Pools, Wheat Pools).

[no date]. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 413pp. Charts, photographs, index. Previous owner's name, edgewear to dust jacket. Illustrations by Wm.W. Perehudoff. Locale: Alberta; Calgary--Alberta. (Western Canada, Agriculture, Business, Marketing, Wheat Pools, Wheat Pools).

Condition: Very Good. 8vo pp 413. b/w illus. Illustrated by Wm. W. Perehudoff. book.