Mary of Mile 18
by Blades, Ann
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+
- Seller
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Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
First Edition of Ann Blades' first book. Ann Blades and her husband taught at a small school in a small community at Mile 18 off the Alaskan highway, where the closest town was Fort St. John, B.C., 45 miles away. Ann came to love the children so much that she wrote this book for them. Missing the d.j.
Synopsis
Ann Blades was only 20 years old when she began teaching at the schoolhouse near Mile 18, British Columbia. Unable to find books for her students that represented their lives, she decided to write and illustrate her own stories. Mary of Mile 18 was her first book and included the students she taught that year. She has written and illustrated many award-winning books, including A Boy of Tache , and A Salmon for Simon . Ann Blades lives near Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stillman Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 742SB
- Title
- Mary of Mile 18
- Author
- Blades, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Brown cloth with Black lettering on spine and front board.
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Tundra Books
- Place of Publication
- Tundra Books, Montreal
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- Unpaginated (40)
- Size
- Sq. Sm. 8 vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Ann has illustrated a dozen or so children's books since then.
Terms of Sale
Stillman Books
About the Seller
Stillman Books
About Stillman Books
children's and other illustrated books, along with aviation, sea and naval and other categories. I'm still plugging along after 42 years of book-selling.