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Fair in Fair jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Book Pocket, Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. WITH A FOREWORD BY: Harry Halliwell. CONTENTS: 1 The Bad Old Days 2 Romance of Railroads 3 The Chilling Time 4 Winter and Appetites 5 Tinkering and Saving 6 Catalogues 7 Spring and the bride Hunters 8 Growing Up 9 The Instruction 10 Age of Rebellion 11 The Good Samaritans 12 School Daze 13 Adolescence and High Schools 14 The Social Graces 15 Bitter-sweet Memories 16 Elections 17 The Unchangeables 18 Epidemics and Patent Medicines 19 The Mechanical Age 20 Impressions 21 Food for Free 22 Auctions 23 General Merchant 24 Memories of Mother 25 They Were All Equal 26 Christmas Harmony. SYNOPSIS: Harry Boyle's first book, Mostly in Clover, was a sensitive portrait of a young boy growing up in rural Ontario during the 1920's. Homebrew and Patches follows the same boy as he moves from the farm to the comparative sophistication of the continuation school in the nearby small town. For the boy, the growing-up process was complicated by the Great Depression which brought the "Hungry Thirties" to the farming communities. Hence the title; for times were so bad on the farm that "making do" was cultivated to a fine art and materials were so scarce that "there were even patches on patches." But looking back on those years, and trying to explain to his readers what life was really like in the bad, old days, Mr. Boyle comes to the conclusion that the misery of the Hungry Thirties was very much mitigated by the amusing incidents which brightened life on the family farm. For even during the Depression there were always diversions for a country boy. Mr. Boyle recounts the mysteries of an ice-harvest, the questionable delights of experiments with tobacco, a boy's first shave, and the proposed fund-raising oyster supper which no one knew how to prepare. The new department-store catalogue-one of the family's favourite diversions-was a source of wistful dreams for the entire family. Mr. Boyle's account of the subterfuge employed by the family to buy Mother an Easter hat is touching and funny, even while it underlines the seriousness of the Depression and the hardships that it caused. For all that Mr. Boyle writes about the Hungry Thirties, he does not limit his book to the trials of "making do." His abiding interest is people; and he has a special tender affection and amused understanding for his central figure, the boy he was thirty years ago. For that boy, growing-up was a process so engrossing that it sometimes overshadowed the difficulties of the Thirties. Young Harry's first date, first dance and his first great love affair-with the high school art teacher-were such momentous milestones in the adolescent's life that the Depression momentarily took second place to them in importance. Such incidents, when seen in their proper perspective, lend themselves to deliciously funny exploitation, and in Homebrew and Patches Mr. Boyle exploits them to the fullest extent.
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Fine in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.173 with an introduction by Harry Halliwell Second book where he moves from the farm to a small town. clean tight copy slight rubbing to edges and corners with smal nicks/creases to top/bottom spoine former owner name whited out on frontpiece.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Signed by Author(s)The jacket is shelf rubbed and edgeworn. mild tanning. no inscriptions. well bound. very good copy. [S. K]
