Sluman Norma (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 258 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated by J. Frascara. This collection contains: Introduction by Dick Harrison; Selling a Birth-Rite for a Mass of Plottage; The Trek West and the Early Days; The Taking of Fort Whoop-Up by Norma Sluman; Whisky Smuggling by Bertrand Sinclair; The Arrest of Wild Horse by Harwood Steele; A North-West Police Party by John Mackie; A Strike on the Railroad by Ralph Connor; The North-West Rebellion and After; The Siege of Fort Pitt by Joseph Collins; Riding West from Duck Lake by Rudy Wiebe; The Lean Man by Roger Pocock; The Error of the Day by Gilbert Parker; The Sun Dance in the File Hills by Frederick Niven; The Gold Rush and the North; Routine Patrol by James B. Hendrix; Smoke by Z. M. Hamilton; The Law Versus the Man by James Oliver Curwood; We Generally Don't by G. B. Lancaster; O'Brien's Doom by Joseph Gollomb; The Wolfer by Wallace Stegner; Main-teen Luh Droyt by Ken Mitchell; and The Detachment Man by H. J. MacDonald. Size: 8vo. J. Frascara; (illustrator). Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. 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. …

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.

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.…

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: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 255 pages. Green textured paper on boards binding has a wee dent to lower edge front, Clean and unmarked.Dust jacket has some rubbing to corners and head and foot of spine, a couple of tears at spine that are well concealed by the new plastic cover. No former owner's name. I have noticed one finger smudge in the margin of one page.…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Very Good. 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good to Very Good. Trade paperback. Wear and rubbing to front corners. Wear and rubbing to front lower edge. Rubbing along spine edges. Wear and rubbing to rear edges. Spine smooth and straight, binding firm. (vii)235pp. Interior unmarred. Octavo.

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

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. …

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).…

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.…

Condition: Very Good. 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.