Ivan Doig:The Whistling Season
- Taschenbuch 2006, ISBN: 9780151012374
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Moderate sun fading to spine. Markings, tape residue to endpapers.. 0 318 p. ports. 22 cm. B&am… Mehr…
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Moderate sun fading to spine. Markings, tape residue to endpapers.. 0 318 p. ports. 22 cm. B&W photo section. Bibliography. Index. Alfred E Smith, b.1873-d. 1944, rose from New York's Lower East Side, from poverty and without a formal education, to become a 4-term Governor of the state. In 1928, he was the Democratic candidate for the Presidency. He was the first Catholic to be nominated, his politcal success was via "the machine", yet he fought for reform issues. He was blunt, candid, and a wisecracker., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1970, 2.5, 1881. Early days in Adams, Marquette and Waushara Counties, WI, are recalled through a mixture of colorful tales and factual data in this meaty 22-page 8 1/2" x 11" spiral-bound booklet, newly printed single-sided on 60 # opaque paper. The front cover is a parchtex card stock, protected with a vinyl sheet. The information comes from a rare 1881 book, entitled History of Northern Wisconsin and from the 1941 WPA book, entitled Wisconsin, a Guide to the Badger State . We've enlarged this tri-county area of Central Wisconsin on a map from the original book, and included it along with two other maps of historic interest. Communities currently listed for this area by the National Association of Counties include: Adams County Adams, Arkdale, Big Flats, Colburn, Dell Prairie, Dellwood, Easton, Friendship (County Seat), Grand Marsh, Jackson, Leola, Lincoln, Monroe, New Chester, New Haven, Preston, Quincy, Richfield, Rome, Springville, Strongs Prairie, and Wisconsin Dells (part). Marquette County Briggsville, Brooks, Buffalo, Crystal Lake, Douglas, Endeavor, Harris, Mecan, Montello (County Seat), Moundville, Neshkoro, Newton, Oxford, Packwaukee, Shields, Springfield, and Westfield. Waushara County Aurora, Berlin (part), Bloomfield, Coloma, Dakota, Deerfield, Hancock, Leon, Lohrville, Marion, Mount Morris, Oasis, Pine River, Plainfield, Poy Sippi, Poysippi, Redgranite, Richford, Rose, Saxeville, Springwater, Warren, Wautoma (County Seat), and Wild Rose.(Some towns are not mentioned in the booklet.) This booklet now includes a newly added 5-page excerpt from the WPA book. Although perhaps out of date as a tour book, these WPA guides are rich in history and trivia. Among the many subjects included are: Location and Natural Resources; Where place names came from; Wisconsin Dells -- Devil's Jug, Witches' Gultch, etc; Crops; Various first -- tavern, birth, school, sermon, steamboat, etc; Names of early settlers; Newspapers; County Organizations, First elections and officers elected; Boundary Changes and Disputes; Friendship, seat of Adams County; Prehistoric people in Marquette County; Montello, seat of Marquette County; Westfield, the center of a large agricultural district and shipping point; Wautoma, seat of Waushara County; Plainfield and Hancock, two towns on the Wisconsin Central Railroad; and other interesting bits of history and trivia. Attention Genealogists: This booklet contains biographies of many county residents of the late 1800s. Some of these are brief, but others include family members, affiliations, war records, and business activities, in the course of which they often shed light on area businesses, churches, professions and institutions, and on news events. Those listed are: (not in alphabetical order): Charles H. Bissell, J.T. Cogan, Mark Derham, William and John Ennis, Edward McCaffrey, A.M. Morrill, S.A. Pease, W.H. Peters, S.R. Rood, Ash Spencer, Robert Cochrane, Archibald Crawford, Samuel Crockett, Seloftus D. Forbes, Caleb F. Fuller, Philo Lackey, William Phillips, Henry R. Roberts, Martin G. Ellison, Jr., Chester Frink, Townsend W. Whitson, the remarkable Capt. J.N.P. Bird (who was nearly shot for "exciting a sedition" during the Civil War), Ira P. Coon, Jackson J. Hawley, Robert L.D. Potter, Charles P. Soule, Allen L. Trufant and Son, James M. Whitman, Sherman Bardwell, Walter Beach, Bishop R. Borden, Dr. James Breen, Caleb Greenfield, Arthur B. Kilbourn, Jefferson B. Mitchell, George Ocain, G.W. Sheardown, Calvin Chafee, Franklin Chafee, Eugene B. Jennings, Dr. Selden Miner, Edwin Montgamery, and Frank H. Clark. . Limited Edition Reprint. Spiral/Comb . New/No Jacket. 8.5" x 11". Private Press., 1881, 6, Cornell University Press. 1992. 8vo, 412pp. A very good paperback copy., Cornell University Press. 1992, 3, W.Heffer and Sons Ltd, 1935. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. First plate is loose. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:, W.Heffer and Sons Ltd, 1935, 0, gp putnam's sons, new york 1971. ex libris (usual cancellation stamps, pockets etc) pp247, illus, cond very good (v sl shelf wear, sl marking to fore-edge), cond d/w v good+ (in plastic)., gp putnam's sons, new york 1971, 0, London, Glasgow and Dublin: Blackie and Son Limited. Decorative Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Delightful Children's story designed to inspire a love for and interest in wildlife and the countryside. Undated Edition, Presentation Label on ffep dated 1911. Orange cloth cover with Black & White Illustration of Children reading by a Bookshelf on the front. Black title above. B&W Illustration of a little girl in a rose garden on the spine, Gilt Lettering above. 128 Pages + Publishers adverts. 7 1/4" Tall, 300g. Some edge wear, mainly at corners and spine ends.Spine leaning slightly. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall, Blackie and Son Limited, 2.5, in8. 1984. broché. 247 pages. 'On le sait écrit Marlène Dietrich dans {Marlène D.} j'ai toujours éprouvé la plus grande méfiance pour les journalistes et pour ceux qui ont essayé de me raconter. Moi seule connais ma vérité.' Cette vérité jamais jusqu'à ce jour Marlène Dietrich ne l'avait dite. Jamais elle n'avait voulu raconter sa vie répondre à ses détracteurs corriger les erreurs dites ou écrites sur elle. Pour la première fois dans {Marlène D.} elle révèle la femme inconnue secrète forte et fragile cachée derrière la star. Sous le mythe de {l'Ange Bleu} ou de {l'Impératrice Rouge} voici la petite Berlinoise admiratrice de la France qui en pleine guerre de 14-18 apporte un bouquet de roses blanches à des prisonniers français ; le soldat américain qui traverse les champs de bataille de 1944 ; la chanteuse applaudie sur toutes les scènes internationales. Et surtout il y a Hollywood dont les rois et les reines s'appelaient alors Garbo Mae West John Wayne James Stewart Orson Welles ; ses amitiés ses amours von Sternberg le 'magicien' le 'maître' à qui Marlène Dietrich doit tout Gabin 'l'homme le super-homme l'idéal que recherchent toutes les femmes'. Parfois implacable jamais nostalgique elle porte sur elle-même et sur les autres un regard lucide et souvent ironique. Proche de grands écrivains comme Hemingway ou Erich Maria remarque confidente de Piaf Marlène Dietrich est restée de Berlin à Hollywood telle qu'en elle-même : une femme déchirée par les tragédies de son temps une actrice bien décidée à ne pas se laisser impressionner par l''illumination de la gloire', Grasset, 1984, 2.5, Horncastle: W. Crowder & Sons. Nursery catalogue. A little wear. . Good. Soft cover. 1964., W. Crowder & Sons, 1964, 2.5, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1900. Hardcover. Good. 1900. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Volume I. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Englished by F. S. Ellis. B&W frontispiece. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with tanning to spine and board edges. Notable scuffing, soiling and marking to boards., J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1900, 2.5, "Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the promise of the Big Ditch a gargantuan irrigation project intended to make the Montana prairie bloom. When the schoolmarm runs off with an itinerant preacher, Morris is pressed into service, setting the stage for the several kinds of education none of them of the textbook variety Morris and Rose will bring to Oliver, his three sons, and the rambunctious students in the region's one-room schoolhouse.A paean to a vanished way of life and the eccentric individuals and idiosyncratic institutions that made it fertile, The Whistling Season is Ivan Doig at his evocative best., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006-06-01, 3<
