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Before I Forget
by Butt, Rita Torpey
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0968027210
- ISBN 13
- 9780968027219
- Seller
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Markham: Cortland Design, 1998. Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription Neatly Inked to Top Right Corner of Front Matter); Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. ALSO KNOWN AS: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS These stories have been published previously by Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distribution Ltd in The Liberal in Richmond Hill and The Era-Banner in Newmarket/Aurora. They are reprinted with their permission. I owe special thanks to Debora Kelly, editor of The Liberal, who gave me the opportunity and incentive to write down stories I've been telling all my life.--Rita Torpey Butt. CONTENTS: Children's Books; Supervised From Above; Are The New Grocery Stores For Giants?; To Comfort A Child; Fainting Dead Away; The Skater's Waltz; York Region Fairyland; Midnight Angel; Be Bothered; My Face Is My Fortune; Family Skis; Rocking And Singing; Good Morning Bank Machine #3; Love Me--Love My Dog; Don't Give Me Special Treatment; Frequent Renovations Gave Everyone A Lift; Selective Reading; Easter Joys; The $27 Shoulder Bag; Holding Hands; I Can Die Happy; I Love The Movies; Travel Games; Listen To The Birdies; Springtime; I Love You Canada; What Happened To Boarding Houses; The Lap Of Luxury; Street Grown Old; Atlanta Trauma; Surveys; Innovative Landscaping; They Couldn't Beg; Going To The Beach; Cloudbursts; Waving; Cooking Donuts; I Hope This Isn't Goodbye; Over Another Hurdle; Cover-Ups; Monday Torture; Old Dog--New Tricks; Will I Ever Drive Again?; Home Décor; From My Heart; Transformers; Are You Ready?; No Salt, No Fat Shopping; The Bridge Of San Luis Rey; The Society Page; So You Think It's Been Cold Lately?; Be A Journalist; Special Permit; Feathers; Changes; In Spite Of It All; The Complete Senior; Addresses; I Love Numbers; How Do I Stop Shrinking; My Duds Are Duds; Changes; My Wheelchair And Me; Leave Your Mark; A Summer Evening; The Kitchen Table; How Could We Live Without TV?; Sunday Drivers; Paper Routes; Vacation Worries; I've Been Screeched; We've Lost Two Seasons; Men's Fashions; Pockets; Snowbirds; Electioneering; I Like To Be Correct; Live And Learn; The Countdown; I've Got Bones To Pick; My Real Estate Evaluation; My Sous-Chef; Wrap It Up; "To See Ourselves As Others See Us" - R. Burns; An Elevating Experience; The Financial Planner; Don't Forget To Treat Yourself; Road Puzzles; Saturday Afternoon Treats; Retirement Homes; The Peameal Bacon; Bread And Butter; Motels; Spring Planting; Father's Day; Calamity Threatens; The Epidemic; Sunset Exile; I Am Coded Into Wealth; The Laying Of Hands; Mid-Summer Melancholy; En-Suites; No Subterfuge; New And Improved. EXCERPT: For All Those of My Generation - When I had my first book "Have I Told You This Before" printed I was accused of nepotism. Of course this was exactly right because the stories were for my children and grandchildren. I wanted them to know about their family, ancestry and heritage. This time I wanted to dedicate "Before I Forget" to all those of my generation who have lived through Depression times, War times, Displacement times, parenting and grandparenting who have now reached the Senior Sector. Younger people only see Old Age but the person inside is the same energetic, hard-working, young and vivacious personality those of our generation recognize. I debated long and hard whether I should include stories of my illness, recovery and rehabilitation when so many of my friends and readers were praying for me. Eventually, I decided no one's life is all "a bowl of cherries" and some of you might relate to the experience and realize with wonderful medical care and lots of love you can recover from a serious set-back. As you will see from the last story in this book entitled "New and Improved" I have another problem in my life. One lesion we are all learning is how to compensate. It takes time to be comfortable with trauma. Hope you enjoy these stories as much as I have enjoyed writing them.. First Separate 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Fully Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003911
- Title
- Before I Forget
- Author
- Butt, Rita Torpey
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Separate 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0968027210
- ISBN 13
- 9780968027219
- Publisher
- Cortland Design
- Place of Publication
- Markham
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Biography,Journalists
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography - Journalists;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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While we often re-use shipping materials, we only do so with clean materials that are worthy of the job. We believe in the second "R" in "Reduce, Re-use, Recycle" when it comes to shipping, but only if it does not compromise your purchase.
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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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