Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J.M. Dent & Sons, Toronto
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. No DJ. Third Printing. Oille, Lucille. 12mo = 7-9" 289pp. Green cloth covers have some slight spotting on front cover top/bottom of spine & corners are bumped & worn. Front hinge is slightly loose but no visible breaks. Includes photographs of The Owl Pen taken by the author. The story of the author & his family's adventures reclaiming an old abadoned house for their own home in Mendonte, between the Moonstone and Cold Water Valleys of Ontario, Canada. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: British Book Service Ltd, Toronto
Date Published: 1955
Description: OILLE, Lucille. Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No markigns, some wear to spine extremities, corner crease, about VG. 8vo, illus wraps, 207pp. Handsome wood engravings by Oille. A newspaperman and his artist wife leave the city to make a life on four acres of wilderness. (1.5 JM FO 55/4. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: British Book Service, Toronto
Date Published: 1955
Description: Oille, Lucille. Good ++ Trade paperback, "New, Revised Edition", xi + 207 pages including Oille's many black-and-white wood engraving illustrations, many full page; age darkening and soiling of top and fore edges, four-word ink inscription on free front endpaper, a few scattered childish pencil scrawls, overall a decent reading copy, not gift quality. See also our listing for Dean Hughes' And So They Bought a Farm. read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Green Cloth Silver Lettered
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons, (November 1947), Toronto
Date Published: 1947
Description: Lucille Oille. Very Good. 8vo (8 5/8"). Light wear. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Lucille Oille. 289 pp. + photos taken by the author at Owl Pen. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Stoddart
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780773757462ISBN:0773757465
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Front cover shows some curling towards right side page ends and light edge wear. Clean and unmarked inside, no creasing to spine, tight binding. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 210 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: British Book Service, Toronto
Date Published: 1955
Description: Oille, Lucille. Very Good- Signed by Illustrator Trade paperback, "New, Revised Edition", xi + 207 pages including Oille's many black-and-white wood engraving illustrations, many full page; age darkening, faded water stain to top edge, without page penetration, neat clear tape repair to spine top; signed by Oille on the title page. See also our listing for Dean Hughes' And So They Bought a Farm. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Toronto: British Book Service, 1950
Description: Trade Paperback. 5th Printing. 207pp. illustrated. Gift inscription on first page. No creasing down a straight spine. Small amt of wear at corners. Not sunned. A vg or a little beter copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: DENT
Date Published: 1948
Description: Very Good. No dustwrapper. 5th printing, 1950. No major defects-unabridged, clean, complete, not falling apart; some light wear. A perfectly good reading or reference copy. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Stoddart
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780773757462ISBN:0773757465
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Audience: General/trade. Soft cover edition. 289 plus pages with black and white photographs and woodcut drawings. Stories about the Well's fixing an old log cabin and settling west of Lake Simcoe in Ontario. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: British Book Service-Canada, Toronto
Date Published: 1955
Description: Lucille Oille; Very Good. 8vo. (xi) 207 pp. First Thus-Revised Edition. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; previous owner's name on the front endpaper; no other interior markings. Illustrated with wood engravings by Lucille Oille. The Chapters are: SUCH SIMPLE FOLK: We Find an Abandoned House; We Stumble into Eden; We Tear the House Down. SAWDUST AND DAISIES: We Rummage the Past; We Hire a Witch; We Put the House Up Again. WOOD SMOKE AND SNOW: We Move In; We Clean Stove Pipes; ... read more
Description: Toronto ON, J.M. Dent, 1948, fourth printing, Good+ condition, lacking dustjacket, Signed by the Author with dustjacket woodcut and flap write-up laid in. Straight, tight and clean with no other markings, spine end and corner bumps, lightly worn edges. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by Lucille Oille, and six black and white plates of the author's personal photographs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: First Edition in the United States of America: HardCover! 8vo., vii., 445 pages. Illustrated Endpapers. Illustrated intext with B&W Wood Engravings by Lucille Oille. This book is unmarked and very good in a very good price clipped dust jacket. Now in a clear dust jacket protector, this is a very attractive copy of this title! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Stoddart
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780773757462ISBN:0773757465
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Light shelf/edge wear to cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 210 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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