C m blackstock (12 risultati)

Octavo, grey cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, [xiv] + 291 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Our knowledge and appreciation of the nineteenth century seem largely to have vanished. In this book, the author reconstructs that world, basing her story on a vast family correspondence that was meant to be destroyed. With their fair share of eccentricities and human failings, several generations provide a microcosmic view of the building of a nation. All the Journey Through is also the story of the making of a Toronto family, though much of the narrative takes place outside the city. Recollecting her childhood in the 1920s and 1930s, the author begins with the large weekly family dinner parties and the Sunday afternoon teas for the children held at her grandmother's house in Toronto, and the happy times spent in Longwood, her grandmother's summer house on Lake Simcoe, Then, quoting extensively from the letters, which date from 1817 to 1919, the author reaches further back into the past. Canadian History, Canada, Toronto.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. GOOD hardcover, no marks in text, clean boards. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. With a color frontispiece, black & white illustrations in the text, a bibliography and index. lvi, 645 pages. 8vo. Hardcover, bound in red cloth, printed in gilt. Fine.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Reissue. 8vo. 8vo. Red-white cloth with gilt lettered spine. Champlain Society logo imprinted to front board. A near fine copy. Minor wear to boards.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 291 pgs. Includes dust jacket - no imperfections. Grey boards with gilt lettering on spine. Black & white photos. No notations, underlining or highlighting. Clean and intact. The author reconstructs the nineteenth century through a vast family correspondence that was meant to be destroyed.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 291 pgs. Includes dust jacket. No underlining or highlighting.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 2002. Says on the verso of the title page that only 35 copies were printed. Illustrated throughout. Correction in biro to one page. Publishers pictorial printed card wrappers slightly creased and wrinkled. Slight marking to the covers. Still a good copy. Scarce. Photographs by M. E. Storey. (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Limited to 33 copies. Picotrial softcover, 88pp. Inscribed by author on note, laid-in. The adventure of C.M. Blackstock, a german studies student during WWII, jumped at the chance to go abroad to work as a translator at the No. 3 Censorship Station, which was under British occupied Hamburg. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. 645 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked, with occasional plates and tables throughout. Frontispiece portrait of William Ord Mackenzie. Red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Blind-stamped seal on the front. Volume 76 in the series of Champlain Society publications. NF/- -. Book.…