Crows Eggs Gopher Tails by Dexter Eric (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. NF softcover with very minor wear - see actual image. Signed by author. 136 pps. Autobiographical memoirs of the period 1922-1942 including the Great Depression and "Dust Bowl". History-Prairies. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good ++. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. SUBTITLED : ` Memoirs of the Depression and Dust Bowl '. The author of these 136 pages was born in 1922 on a farm on the Assiniboine River in Manitoba. Read more about : Pratt, Carberry, Portage La Prairie, Lake Agassiz, Clapham farm, Great Carlton School, and Muriel Gibbons. Apart from the usual horses and dogs as farm pets, the author caught and trained crows. Check out these and other b/w photographs. Author has signed and inscribed the half-title. Cond : Paper wrapper is white with brown lettering. Cover graphic is a map of the U.S.- Canada border and Lake Manitoba. Tight in binding. Minimal soiling. Two colour photos laid in. No tears. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 47) : " During the winter of 1932 and 1933 the wind began to blow and with parched top soil and little snow cover, the first dust storms swept the prairies and the central States. The mournful sound of the wind around the house caused my soul ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. Signed by Author(s).

[0-9693229-0-4-1] [1990]. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. viii, 136pp. Photographs. Ex-library but with only a discard stamp on the half-title page. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Farm Life--Manitoba, Great Depression--Canada, Memoirs).

[0-9693229-0-4] 1990. (Trade paperback) Very good. viii, 136pp. Signed by the author. Photographs. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Farm Life--Manitoba, Great Depression--Canada, Memoirs).