Spence Phyllis Editors (6 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Trade paperback, third (1996) printing), xiii + 299 pages inclusing black-and-white photographs; tiny bumps corners, but no creases, very gently used, very clean and unmarked. See also our listing for Linda Granfield's Brass Buttons and Silver Horseshoes: Stories from Canada's British War Brides.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. Reprint. 299pp. with b/w illustrations, signed with a brief inscription by Spence (one of the editors) on the title page. Curl/creasing at corners, light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. Wraps have edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 15.1 x 23 x 2.1cm, wt650g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG. Reprint. 382pp. with b/w illustrations. Gift note on the half-title page, small curl/creasing at corners, light creasing from page handling and light soil to outer edges. Wraps have light edge/rub wear and light general creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 15.2 x 22.8 x 2.4cm, wt750g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: G. 382pp. with b/w illustrations, signed by one of the editors (Ladouceur) on the title page. Small curl/creasing at corners, light creasing from page handling, corner creasing to a couple of pages and light soil to outer edges. Wraps have edge/rub wear, a tear bottom left of the front panel, length long creasing to the spine and light general creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. 15.2 x 22.8 x 2.4cm, wt750g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. B/W Photographs (illustrator). SUBTITLED : ` Canadian War Bride Stories '. The prologue to this 299 page volume notes that some of the war brides were as young as twelve or thirteen when the war began. But as their childhoods abruptly ended a new phase of their lives began. Read more about : Lux flakes, Edward the Confessor Church, Identity Card, Tinsely Green, sailing orders, Hove, Dubarrys, Aquitania, Johnny Walker whisky, and Queen's Gate. Text assisted by a small number of b/w photographs. Cond : Blue paper wrapper with light blue titling. Tight in binding. QUote (p. 157) : " I was an air-raid warden at night. In fact, sometimes I didn't go home, because we had an air-raid post under our office and I was on duty three nights a week. When the sirens went ._._._. . " Size: 8vo.

[0-921870-61-2] 1998. (Trade paperback) Near fine. 382pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, photographs, bibliography, index. (Military--Canada, Canadian Red Cross Corps (Overseas Detachment), Military--Canada, Women--Military).