Sluman Norma (18 results)

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: G-VG. First Edition. Work of fiction based on events around the time of the occupation of Southern Alberta by the Northwest Mounted Police and the story of Crowfoot, the Indian leader. vii, 255 pages ; 22 cm. OCLC Number:4819789. The interior is clean, the pages white. There is a previous owner's name/address to the ffep otherwise the book is unmarked. The binding is tight and square and the green cloth shows virtually no wear. The dustjacket, in a brodart is also clean and unmarked but shows wear to the edges with small, lost chips to the extremities of the spine. Weight, 515g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Cloth, Gilt Titles. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Dramatized biography of Canadian Cree Indian leader, Poundmaker [1842-1886]. VIII, [2], 301pp, one small map. Book is bright, clean and unmarked with a sound binding. No wear to cloth. Dustjacket has edge wear, and small chips, wiith rubbing to most surfaces. Unpacked weight, 462g. This book is too heavy to qualify for the US$8.50 rate which applies only to 500g or less, and/or under 20mm thick. The best option is via the Canada Post Flat Rate Box which is Boxed/tracked/insured/faster at C$18.99. We also use a discounted service, Chit Chats, [via Canada Post]. All rates quoted are at our cost. ABE is unable to calculate correct rates because its system is unaware of the actual weight or dimensions of the shipment or the exact details of the distance/location to be shipped. The 'estimate' shown is not a guaranteed rate. ABE shows the same rate for ALL shipments no matter the weight/size or destination.

VG+ in wraps. Signed. 233 pages, octavo. Corners are lightly bumped. Rear panel is slightly soiled. A great look at an important Canadian Indian leader. Numerous illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1st printing. Cloth. 255pp. Gift inscription on ffep. Kind of dank-smelling, but most of that is going away. Top edge soiled. Good in dj partially split along folds.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fictionalised account of the lfe of ' Pîhtokahanapiwiyin' (c1842 - 1886), also known as Poundmaker, a renowned Plains Cree Indian, a peacemaker and defender of his people. Imprisoned for 3 years after the Riel Rebellion, he passed away in 1886. This book is an acclaimed account of Poundmaker's Life and Times, sympathetic in its treatment. viii, 301 pages, map. Text is bright, clean and unmarked. ownership name to the front endpapers. Tight, square binding, sound hinges. No wear to the cloth boards which remain clean and quite fresh. The uncliipped dustjacket was originally lightly tapes to the boards, now removed. The dustjacket has survived quite well showing some light surface rubbing and a couple of lost chips to the top edge of the front panel.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. CLEAN, UNMARKED COPY.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gift inscription FFEP. DJ in mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. DJ has tears, creasing and chipping, with 1" wedge piece missing from front bottom. Tape repaired tear on back flap of DJ. ; Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. A tight solid book. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages; A novel set in the 1870s about Crowfoot, chief of the the Siksika First Nation and his dealings with the white man, the Northwest Mounted Police and the railway.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, clean, no writings.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. B/W Photographs (illustrator). 2nd Edition. The introduction (p.vii) of this 233 page volume makes the distinct point that, neither the authors, nor John himself, want the work to make John Baptiste Tootoosis look like some type of hero. the point rather is to broaden the understanding that the average Canadian has of the Treaty Indian. LEARN more about : Little Pine Reserve, liberated citizens, Leech Lake Band, Elphinstone, Brightsand Lake, Angus Merasty,Delmas Residential School. Kes-ke-kat,Cut Knife Hill, agent, demoralizing amusements, and Sepiquaskun. A few b/w photographs accompany text. Clean tight, square and bright. Minimal wear. No marks in text block. Name of p/o on title page and verso front cover. QUote (p. 120) : " Once home John's father told the people what they would need to do to prevent the leasing. Every able-bodied man would need to cut about two hundred and fifty fence posts. The band would buy reels of barbed wire and staples. All were willing and soon ._._._. . ".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` A Novel of Early Alberta '. While this novel is peopled with real people - Father Lacombe, Colonel Macleod, Jerry Potts, Sitting Bull, Red Crow, and Crowfoot - its 255 pages are still largely imagined. The time frame is 1873 on the Canadian plains, west of the Sand and Cypress, and north of the Sweetgrass - hills that marked locality in those days along the Medicine Line. Meet : Bearchild, Two Tails, Sikimi, Charlie Tibbetts, Snowhawk, Tahnea, Blood Lance and Jules LePine. Tahnea the young woman sets out to settle an old score with Hugh Suttle of Fort Benton, Montana. UNillustrated. Cond : Boards are green with black lettering - spine only. D.J. is also green with black and white lettering. Volume has very light wear and similar soiling. D.J. is lightly chipped at all edges and corners. Lightly rubbed. One d.j. tear (1 ") at back hinge. No missing pieces. No names nor marks. Not sun faded. Binding sound, volume square. Quote (p. 51) : " ._._. and laid a carefully wrapped bundle on the table. She was an incongruous apparition even in this most rakish of frontier outposts.She was less the Indian than usual, but if she had ._._. and blankly savage. She spoke abruptly as she began to untie the bundle. `This is sign from one who sent me. I make talk for him '. " Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. DJ shows shelf wear and scuffing, with tape repaired tears and chipping. Cloth covered book shows only light wear ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 301 pages; Poundmaker was Chief of the Battleford area Crees at a critical time, during the Riel Rebellion. He did not join with Riel and his Metis but still had to had to defend against government troops. He ended up having to serve some ttime in a penitentiary and died young. All he wanted was to be a peacemaker.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. INSCRIPTION FROM MARNIE SLUMAN SOMERS on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; light crease to front cover near spine; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; absolute minimal wear; Sluman tells the story of the Frog Lake Massacre which ignited the North West Rebellion in 1885, through the eyes of the people who experienced it, white, Metis, and Indigenous. Her writing embodies insight and deep human empathy which pull the reader into the story. A must read for lovers of true events of history and those seeking tro understand its unintended consequences. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. Smaller 8vo pp. 372, b/w sketch illustrations, ep maps. book.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. vii, 255. cloth (ex. lib., sunned).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Wear to dj, unmarked, 301pp, VG/G. Book.

1959. (Hardcover) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 255pp. The dust jacket is rubbed on the back panel and lightly edgeworn. Locale: Alberta; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Fiction, Canadian, Historical Fiction).

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 312 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.