This Is Nove Scotia (Signed)

Bird, Will R.

ISBN 10: 0770002048 / ISBN 13: 9780770002046

Published by Ryerson Press, 1968

About this Item

Flat signed by Will R. Bird on half title page. Bound in publisher's burgundy cloth. Silver lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Shelf wear. Binding slightly cocked. Pages unmarked. viii, 299 p., portraits, 21 cm. "Will R. Bird (1891-1984) was a Canadian author. Will R. Bird was born in 1891 in East Mapleton, Nova Scotia. After losing his brother Stephen Carmen Bird to a German mine explosion in October 1915, he enlisted in the Canadian Army in 1916. He saw action at Vimy, Passchendaele, Amiens, Arras and Cambrai. After returning home, Will raised his family in Nova Scotia. He named his only son Stephen Stanley Bird, in honor of his brother killed in action. In 1930, he published a memoir about his wartime experiences entitled And We Go On (later reprinted as Ghosts Have Warm Hands)." - Juno Beach.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: This Is Nove Scotia (Signed)
• Publisher: Ryerson Press
• Publication Date: 1968
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0770002048
• ISBN 13: 9780770002046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 16 ounces
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian History

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Synopsis

Hard Cover; Very Good; Dust Jacket - Good; Ryerson Press First Edition / Seventh Printing. Hardcover, Very Good cloth covered boards with light edge rubbing. DJ is Good; light edge wear and chipping. B&W photographs, including frontispiece; map endpapers.