About this title: Eric Collier's riveting recollections about the 26 years that he, his wife Lillian and son Veasy spent homesteading in the isolated Chilcotin wilderness made for an international best-seller and one of the most famous books ever written about British Columbia. In the early 1930s, Collier and his family moved to Meldrum Creek, where the couple built their own log house and learned to live off the land. Fulfilling a promise to Lillian's grandmother to bring the beavers back to the area she knew as a child before the White man came, Collier was instrumental in the species' survival. Collier's ...
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Clarke, Irwin, Toronto
Date Published: 1962
Description: Cellini, Joseph. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Name of previous owner on inside front cover. Binding intact. Significant wear to cover, creasing, edge wear, tears at spine ends and some edges, some mended with tape. Few markings to text. Still useful and very readable. 349 p. ill. 21 cm. Includes Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dutton, New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Greenish cover is soiled, has antelope on front. Cover is frayed, especially along spine. 349 p. ill. 21 cm. Includes Illustrations. Has usual ex-library markings and stickers. Pages are clean and binding is tight, except front board extends further back than usual. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: COMPANION BOOK CLUB
Date Published: 1959-01-01
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. No names, no remainder marks, no stickers. Text is clean but pages are somewhat tanned with age. No DJ. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, NY
Date Published: 1959
Description: Joseph Cellini. Fine. No dust jacket. The book is in fine + condition with a slight water mark to the back inside corner. 349 p. Includes illustrations. The hard cover is light greenish yellow with a picture of trees and moose in dark green. The title, author, and publisher are in black on the spine This a true story about the author Eric Collier who first came to Canada in 1919, married a quarter-breed indian girl, then with wife, small child, a wagon, and thirty dollars took off into the ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1959
Date Published: 1959
Description: NF/VG+ Dust Jacket VG. Stated First Edition. 349 pp. Illustrated with photographs and map, b/w drawings by Joseph Cellini. Near Fine yellow green cloth boards with black illustration on the upper cover and black printing on the spine. The illust. B002UNA0BY. read more
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, New York
Date Published: 1970
Description: Good in a Good dust jacket. Boards are bowed, sticker removal to spine, corner clipped but not price clipped. First Edition stated. read more
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