About this title: In this recreation of southern Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1920, Wallace Stegner combines his own memories with history and fictional techniques to create a community, a landscape, and an unforgettable childhood.
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Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 306 pp., maps; 20 cm. Good+. Tight, clean text. Previous owner's name/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Browning. "Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boyhood. Set in Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where Stegner's family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920, Wolf Willow brings to life both the pioneer community and the magnificent landscape that ... read more
Description: Acceptable. 2000-Paperback----Used-Acceptable-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr
Date Published: 1981-01
ISBN-13:9780803291089ISBN:0803291086
Description: Very Good. Paperback. Very light wear on cover. Pages very clean, binding very tight. May have diff. cover art than item shown. (tpb, fic-S) read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books Comstock Edition
Date Published: 1973
ISBN-13:9780345031716ISBN:0345031717
Description: Good. Text is clean and free of markings. Slight age darkening to pages. Covers show some light rubbing and light wear at corners. Small staple punctures on first page. read more
Edition: First edition. thus; A Comstock Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine, New York
Date Published: 1973
Description: Very Good. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Clean, solid, tight, great shape and attractive with very light shelf wear. 309 p.; 18 cm.; pictorial cover with black print; Western Americana.; Alibris.0004081. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, Toronto
Date Published: 1967
Description: Stegner's classic of his early life spent in the Northern Plains of the States and Canada (Whitemud, Saskatchewan), . Very Good in green cloth ( save for excised front blank), titles in white, moderate edge wear. 306p. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780141185019ISBN:0141185015
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 2000-12-01
ISBN-13:9780141185019ISBN:0141185015
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780141185019. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Press
Date Published: c1962
Description: Good+ with no dust jacket. Brown cloth hardcover with dark brown block and gilt lettering on spine, map end papers, 307 pages. Spine cloth very lightly sunned, faint dampstain on covers, previous owner's name, pages bright, a tight, solid copy (contents very good). read more
Edition: 3rd Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NB
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780803291089ISBN:0803291086
Description: Near Fine in None as Issued jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Brown, highgloss soft cover/NF w/trace wear to corner tips. Bookshop price sticker to fEP. The eloquent sub-title describes well this unique anthology of 17 essays, many first published elsewhere, that is indeed part local history, part fiction, and part revisiting of childhood memories. The wolf willow is a native shrub of the Saskatchewan bottoms, symbolic of that part of the earth Wallace Earl Stegner (1909-1993) first knew. The ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1963
Description: Very Good + in hardcover. 22 by 15 cm. 306 [1] pages. Second printing. Brown cover. Deckle page edges. Illustrated endpapers. Sunning on spine. A few marks on the front cover. Bright, clean. read more
"Thanks to John at Bonners Books for this book. Wallace spent several years of his youth living around Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan on the Montana and Alberta borders. The book is part memoir, part Canada History and part novella. The memoir and the history happily intermingle.I loved the memoir parts since my parents grew up in Alberta and this summer we spent an afternoon trying to find the my grandfather's and later my uncle's farm. I also enjoyed Wallace's take on Canadian - actually western Canadian - history. He approaches it from the a Cypress Hills point of view and from his own ignorance of local/regional/national history as a child; my favorite section was the history of surveying the 49th parallel - although my Canadian history is weak enough that I learned a lot from each chapter. The novella impresses the reader with critical turning point in western prairie history - the winter of 1906-1907 when everything froze and the open range ended.
I think John recommended the book to me for all the above parts, but mostly because the last chapter is about leaving the Cypress Hills and it recalls my leaving our cabin north of Bonners Ferry. Sad in a way (it made me teary) but not too sad (I was happy to leave). A good ending for me to read."
"Very descriptive of a period in history - early 1900s on both sides of the US/Canadian border of Montana and White Mud Canada. This is not the kind of book I usually read but I am reading it because a friend highly recommended it. It is a book I can easily pick up and put own."
"It took me a while to read this, but when I did pick it up, I quickly became absorbed. The first chapter reeled me in with it's vivid descriptions of the Canadian frontier. He has some great and unexpected turns of phrase."
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