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Straws in the Wind
by Boyle, Harry J
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/Fair
- Seller
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1969. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Tape Residue to Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Where Jacket Was Once Taped On; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Heavy Sticker Pull to Spine (Inside and Outside); Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Fading of Spine Due to Sun Exposure; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. A collection of musings on...pussy willows, garbagemen, thaw, jogging, real fireplaces, farm barns, twilight, Easter hats, vacant lots, women shoppers, owls, picking berries, the tyranny of grass, noise, treehouses, June, fig leaf fashions, mud, pitapples, dropouts, autumn mists, squirrels, crickets, Christmas trees & such; by Harry J. Boyle, Author of Homebrew and Patches & A Summer Burning. CONTENTS: Foreword - Why?; Chapter 1 Sing No Laments For Canada; Chapter 2 Cold Straws; Chapter 3 Oh February!; Chapter 4 March--The Time of the Maple; Chapter 5 April; Chapter 6 Man and May; Chapter 7 June and Things; Chapter 8 The Spirit and the Flame; Chapter 9 Hot July; Chapter 10 Man and His City; Chapter 11 August Daze; Chapter 12 September Song; Chapter 13 To Walk in October; Chapter 14 November; Chapter 15 December; Chapter 16 The Changeless Magic; Chapter 17 Peace for the Family of Man; Postscript - "One small step... One giant step...". SYNOPSIS: Harry Boyle, the author of A Summer Burning and With a Pinch of Sin, is well known to Canadians. Here is what he has to say about his latest work: "This book is designed as an escape. Escape for the generation that's too old for pot and protest and too young for jogging or rocking chairs. "A great many of the items appeared in the Montreal Star and Weekend Magazine. I've arranged them into the semblance of a pattern for a year. The editors of both the Montreal Star and Weekend Magazine are concerned journalists. They know that the print media must reflect the trials and tribulations of Marshall McLuhan's technological age but feel we shouldn't lose sight of some of the pleasant things which are still in existence. "Man, in particular North American man who crowds into highrise apartments or exists on postage stamp lots in repetitive suburbs, protests about what is happening to his life. Scarcely removed from pioneer times, he blames "them" for changing values and environment without concern for the individual. He laments the inability to communicate with his children. "Each day he fights traffic, breathes polluted air and arrives at work filled with indignation. Then he proceeds to work diligently as a part of the complex which seems bent on making our natural environment uninhabitable. Questioned, he replies defensively that if he doesn't do it, someone else will. "This book is a look at some of the pleasant qualities which remain. Take a good look at them because they may not be around for too long. They say plastic domes will be the only protection for large cities and controlled hot house atmospheres. I wonder what the birds will think? "This collection is also Canadian. I am unashamedly Canadian. Not because I think there is an essential superiority in being a Canadian. I was born here and that's a good enough reason, and besides, through luck and circumstances, we still have a change, not only to make a good life and a just society, but also to demonstrate that in order to survive we must be active, not passive, members of the brotherhood of man." Harry J. Boyle was born and brought up in St. Augustine, Huron County, Ontario. He was involved in journalism and broadcasting for many years before becoming Vice-Chairman of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission. Every July, he teaches creative writing at the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has been re-elected to serve as Mayor of Mariposa during the 1970 Leacock Centennial Year. He is the author of four books: Mostly in Clover, Homebrew and Patches (winner of the Leacock Medal for Humor), A Summer Burning and With a Pinch of Sin.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.
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- Seller
- Fully Booked
(CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 003627
- Title
- Straws in the Wind
- Author
- Boyle, Harry J
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Miscellaneous,Collected Writings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscellaneous - Collected Writings;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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cardboard boxes or cardboard shipping wraps
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bubble wrap
foam wrap
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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.
Choosing the most appropriate materials suited to your purchase, we package up your parcel, taking the time to do everything we can to ensure its safe and secure delivery to you. Attention is paid to protecting corners and boards of hardcover books and ensuring that paperback books cannot be curled or folded while in transit. To ensure that no moisture damage occurs while in transit, we make sure that a plastic, protective barrier is a part of your package, either by using a Poly Mailer or by plastic bagging/wrapping your book(s) if a cardboard box is to be used for shipping. No loose edges or flaps are left on the outside of packages to ensure smooth flow and safe journey through postal system sorting and scanning equipment. An Invoice and Packing Slip are always safely enclosed with your book(s), so that should an unfortunate incident occur to exterior labelling and/or packaging, postal employees can identify the rightful owner of the contents and complete delivery. We try to think of everything!
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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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