Showing posts with label Nature writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nature writing. Show all posts

07 February 2012

POD Cover of the Month: The Backwoods of Canada



BiblioBazaar takes Catharine Parr Traill's cheery account of her life in our backwoods and turns it into Stalag 17. I much prefer Tutis Classics' sunny cover:


First edition:

London: Charles Knight, 1836

Runner up:


Another proud BiblioBazaar offering.

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22 July 2011

In Praise of Older Women



Love Affair with a Cougar
Lyn Hancock
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1978

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07 June 2010

Allen Emergency Eye Wash



Beginning with the above, London publisher Grant Richards' 1897 first edition of An African Millionaire, six handsome Grant Allen books to flush away the harmful grit left by BiblioBazaar, Tutis and General.

Flowers and Their Pedigrees
New York: Appleton, 1884

Miss Cayley's Adventures
London: Richards, 1899

Flashlights on Nature
London: Newnes, 1899

Florence
Boston: Page, 1901

Belgium: Its Cities
Boston: Page, 1903

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