Language: English
Published by MacPherson Lumber Inc, Quebec, 1994
ISBN 10: 0969792506 ISBN 13: 9780969792505
Seller: LeeMan Books, Dublin, DUBL, Ireland
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Compiled from Cummins memoirs by Lorne C. MacPherson. Contains a book review and a letter from the editor. Cummins (1835?-1904) was a Cork-born railway engineer in India. These memoirs were drawn from his letters to his daughter in 1902 and include his account of his escape from Delhi during the Indian Revolution of 1845. The tone and vocabulary used are of the class and period. He retired to Magg, Quebec in 1891 Cummins Contains a genealogy of the Cummins family whose family seat was Woodville, Glanmire, near Cork City. Also an account of his collection of antiques, his family and their portraits. A bright, unmarked copy of a unique life. Contains manuscript letter si.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Vancouver: City Archives, 1953. A small broadside poem - a single leaf on glossy paper, measuring 5 X 7.5 inches. Fine condition. A poem written in 1942. Bland was born in Ottawa in 1875.
Published by Coffee House Press, n.d., [Minneapolis]
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
13½" x 19" poetry broadside printed at MCBA for the author and friends.