Top Grain Elevator by Nickel Barbara (12 results)

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. From the Top of a Grain Elevator. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 62 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Near Fine. Dundurn, 1999. 1st Edition . Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. STATED FIRST EDITION-Short-listed for the 1999 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award -Award-winning poet and playwright Barbara Nickel returns to her Prairie roots in a beautiful collection of seasonal poems that chart, with a bird's-eye view of the western landscape, nature's glorious playground. Nickel's experimental verses are perfectly complimented by Kathy Thiessen's black-and-white etchings, making this ideal for any young Canadian -- Prairie-dweller, would-be poet, or otherwise. 72 pp.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in which she reveals that she is Evelyn Dick, the notorious ''torso murderer'' acquitted on appeal of dismembering her husband, and convicted of killing her infant son. In 1958 she was paroled, and disappeared into the mists of history. In Blue Moon, James King draws on the historical case of Evelyn Dick, and imagines her life after her release from prison. It is a life in which she travels to Vancouver, renames herself, and settles into a position as sales clerk at Duthie Books on Robson. There she meets Ethel Wilson, begins therapy, and tries to understand the events that led to her imprisonment and current life. She also begins to write, and finds herself a successfully published author. But did she murder her husband Is she guilty of neglect of her baby boy Was her life as Hamilton's most notorious prostitute her responsibility With the help of Doctor Newman, she attempts to come to understand the violence in which she was involved, her sense of guilt, and the essential truth of her innocence.…

[0-88878-397-3] 1999. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 62pp. 4to. Signed (inscribed) to title page. Clean, bright copy. There s a soft vertical fold close to the spine, otherwise a fine copy. Black and white etchings complement the verse.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Binding is solid. Glossy cover wraps. Worn along extremities. Corners rubbed. Panels are lightly scratched and rubbed. Interior pages are bright and clean. Thiessen, Kathy (illustrator).

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