Olive Knox (47 results)

HC. 303pp A charming love story with a background of history. It throws welcome light on a fascinating period in the struggle to build Canada. good w/lightly chipped dustjacket (hardcover).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- HERE'S THE FIRST FEW SENTENCES --- --- At last Mother was going to be Mrs. Minister. She was twenty-nine and had six children, but that did not keep her feet from almost dancing at the thought as we stood on the station platform at Ottawa to board a train for the United States. . .

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Spine, binding and cover all fine; contents very clean and no inscription. Dustcover very good if a little faded. 270 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small chip with tape repair to jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 301 Pages, Dust Jacket Edge Chipped O/W Sound. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. The top back cover edge has chipping. Light wear.;

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Light tanning of the edges. No markings and no tears.;

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Light tanning of the edges, no markings, no tears.

Hardcover. Condition: VG/G. First Edition. A romance set in the Red River Settlement. Book is bound in gilt titled red cloth with very little wear. Jacket has been extensively reinforced back and front with scotch tape. 303 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Vg/VG. Third Printing. Fictional account of a teenager's trip across Canada with George Simpson in the early nineteenth century. Jacket edgeworn. 270 pp.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Published. 257 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG, Shelfwear, staining, foxing, brownig/G, Price-clipped, edgewear, chips, tears, perforations, abrasion, staining, browning. Historical adventure, set in Canada. 257 pages, inlcuding a glossary. Expanded condition report/digital photo on request.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Spine faded. Cover rubbed. 200mm x 140mm (8" x 6"). 270pp.

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. John Black of Old Kildonan. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Clarence Tillenius (illustrator). 1st Edition. 196 Pages Illus., Dust Jacket Edge Chipped O/W Sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. DJ has small tears, creases, sun-faded on spine. Boards show light edgewear. Gift inscription on FFEP.; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages; Black was a Presbyterian minister from Scotland who served in the Red River Settlement until his death in 1882.

Reprint, 1946. No inscriptions or annotations; page edges slightly browned; binding tight; dust jacket worn, with small loss to spine & front panel Used - Good. VG hardback in Fair dust jacket Used - Good. VG hardback in Fair dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Very good tight condition, owners signature, orange boards, dustwrapper has little wear.

Hardcover. First edition. pp. 192. 8vo. Beige cloth with red lettering and decoration. Map endpapers. Illustrated by Clarence Tillenius. Light edgewear and age-toning, top edge a bit dusty, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good, in good+ dust jacket, showing surface abrasions, ome discolouration, and two closed tears to front panel. Watters p. 322. The fourth book published by Winnipeg author Olive Elsie Knox, this title scarce in first edition, and illustrated by fellow Manitoban Clarence Tillenius.

1956. (stiff paper covers) Very good. 28pp. Photographs. Contributors include Hartwell Bowsfield, Arthur Chiel, Irene Craig, William Douglas, Dorothy Garbutt, Elisabeth Henderson, Douglas Kemp, Olive Knox, Margaret McBeth, Nan Shipley. Publisher series: Manitoba Pageant 2. Locale: Manitoba. (Manitoba, Juvenile Literature).

1948. (Cloth) Very good plus in good to very good dust jacket. 303pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Peel(3) 188.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Light handling to book and jacket. Otherwise, clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Tillenius, Clarence (illustrator). Knox, Olive LITTLE GIANT (MISS-TOP-ASHISH) THE STORY OF HENRY KELSEY New York, New York: Bouregy & Curl, Inc. 1954 Fair/NA 186 pp. 8vo. Ex Library. Red publishers cloth is stained, soiled, rubbed, and frayed. Edges are bumped and rubbed through in several areas exposing cardboard, which is missing pieces at head/tail of spine. Textblock edges are age toned, soiled, and stained red where bottom edge meets spine from color transfer from cloth. Surface tear, several stamps, and a library sticker on front endpapers, soiling and pencil marks to back endpapers. Pages are age toned and several have spots of soiling, binding has loosened between some signatures. This book remains in Fair condition and would make a good reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signed Best Wishes Olive Knox on the title page, this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages, light bit of edge wear. Signed by Author.

Condition: New.

1958. (Cloth) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 198pp. Based in part upon Black's letters.