Peterman Michael Editors (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. x 390 pp., footnotes, index, b/w reproductions and photographs. Slight wear to corners and spine tips, softening to head of spine. Dust jacket shows minor creasing to head of spine, one small dent to spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ISBN: 0-8020-2580-3, Minor yellowing to the jacket, the front flap hinge is a bit rolled; light shelf rubbing; the text block fore-edge top corner shows a small spot not affecting interior. Text is clean. 'For most readers and students of Canadian literature, Susanna Moodie's name evokes images of immigrant and settler experience in nineteenth-century Canada. Roughing It in the Bush, her account of pioneer life, is a landmark in Canadian literary history; it is the only sense of Moodie that most Canadians have. But there were many other dimensions to her life, as this volume reveals. It follows Susanna from her Suffolk girlhood and her experience as an aspiring young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. Many of the surviving letters, because they are written to fellow writers, editors, and publishers, are about literature. . . . Personal letters are here too. They tell a warmly human story of a lively personality.' SIGNED by the three Editors upon the title-page. 390 pages. Signed by Editors. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Lightly bumped on ends of spine and front lower corner, small smudge (1/18 inch) on bottom edge, else near fine. Pages spotless. DJ wrinkled on ends of spine, 2 pinpoint holes in rear where stapled, else very good plus. Protected in mylar.…