Murdoch b j rev (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. The dustjacket shows light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. First Edition. some edge spotting, solid binding.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original beige cloth on boards with gilt lettering. Grey pictorial DJ uncredited. A departure from autobiographies into fiction by this author. A wealthy young woman leaves her home against her father's will. She rents an old house in northern New Brunswick, where she bakes pastries to sell to visiting fishermen in search of salmon. DJ blurb drops the name of Ted Williams, who apparently fished there. Surprise ending ! 168 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. green gilt dec. cloth, 259 pages, small closed tears and chips to d.j. edges,ink signed on title page by author . Father Murdoch earlier books, The Red Vineyard, Souvenir, Sprigs, Alone With T hee were very popular. In mylar protective jacket. Size: 8 Vo.. Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Third Printing. blue cloth, gilt cover and spine, 217 pages,a clean, bright copy. a collection of short stories by the author of The Red Vinyard. riter. He is best known for his book The Red Vineyard (1928), which gives an account of his service during the First World War as a military chaplain. Murdoch enlisted and trained with the 132nd CEF Battalion (North Shore), and eventually served in England, France, Belgium and Germany. The much revered priest suffered from Post Tramatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or Shell Shock as it was called at the time. As a result of his illness he lived almost half his life in seclusion in Bartibog, New Brunswick . A casuality of war -his illness misunderstood. Size: 8vo.. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. cloth, 168 pages, some minor edge tears, in protective mylar jacket, d.j. is NOT price clipped. Benedict Joseph Murdoch (1886-1973),was born in Chatham, New Brunswick he was best known as Reverend B.J. Murdoch. He was a priest and novelist. In 1915 he enlisted in the Canadian Army as chaplain to the 132nd North Shore Battalion, a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. When the war ended, Reverend Murdoch returned to New Brunswick to serve as pastor at Jacquet River, in Restigouche Co., and Douglastown ( now known as Miramichi). After serving for nine years in the Douglastown he suffered from combat stress, (shell shock) and retired from the ministry on medical recommendation and spent most of the next thirty years living in seclusion in a woods cabin near Bartibog, ten miles from Chatham. Having no military pension he made money from his writing and the small stipends he received for each day he celebrated Mass. All his works were written in longhand since he never owned a typewriter. He died at Hotel-Dieu Hospital in Miramichi on 31 January, 1973 at age 86 Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Very Good Plus. Tenth Printing. Original maroon cloth lettered in gold on boards. Cream dustjacket has red and black decoration and black lettering. Minor edgewear to dustjacket. Father Murdoch, a New Brunswicker, served as Chaplain to Canadian Expeditionary Forces in World War I, the subject of this book. This book was inscribed to Ralph Costello, the publisher of two Saint John, New Brunswick newspapers. 238 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Photo Portrait Frontispiece (illustratore). Inscribed by Author(s). Book.…

Cream coloured cloth. Condizione: Vg. to fine in fine dj. (7)-168 Pp. This is a novel by the well known New Brunswick author about a young girl, daughter of a millionaire who leaves her father's home, against his will, and rents an ancient country dwelling in the Miramichi valley, N.B.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Good to Very Good. Reprint. Original dark blue cloth on boards. Bright orange DJ has tiny fold tear at head. Inscribed "To R. B. Graham with every good wish from B.J. Murdoch." First printed in 1927, again in 1928, and by demand, again in 1955. Listed separately, also signed, is Reverend Murdoch's book based on his experience as a Chaplain in WWI, The Red Vineyard. Sprigs is more short stories. 217 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. The Red Vineyard by Rev. B.J. Murdoch, published by The Torch Press, Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1927. Maroon cloth with gold lettering on front cover. Hardcover, 313 pages, frontispiece portrait of author. The story of a Catholic Chaplin in the Great War who carried God s words and Sacrament to soldiers in the front lines, hospitals, and wherever needed. Born in 1885 in Chatham, New Brunswick, Benedict Joseph Murdoch served as a Parish Priest in Douglastown and Jacquet River and also as a Chaplin to the 132nd North Shore Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Pages yellowed, page 11 has a previous owner s signature, also the inside of the back cover. Two cataloguing numbers on spine. Black stain on upper left-hand corner of cover. First two pages loose. Book: Fair.…