Buckler By Ernest Illustrated Richards Walter books on Capricorn Books

Quick Search

Author
Title
Description
Keyword

Navigation

Browse By Category

American History & Travel
Ancient History
Animation, Cartoons & Comics
Antiques & Collectibles
Architecture/Interior Design
Art - Canadian
Art - First Nations/Indigenous Art
Art - General
Art Instruction (Incl. Woodworking)
British History
Business, Finance
Canadiana
Childrens
Civil Aircraft & Aviation
Fantasy
Fashion, Costume & Accessories
Film/Theatre/Television
Folio Society
Food & Drink
Games & Recreation

View all Categories

Gift Card

Go To:

Global Book Town
The independent online bookstores on Global Book Town have nearly a million used, rare and out of print books.

Buckler, Ernest. Illustrated By Walter Richards. Listings

If you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings.

	1	Buckler, Ernest. Illustrated by Walter Richards. OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1968, first edition. 302 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w illustrations. "Oxen were still yoked to sledges and the scythe and the ax and the crosscut saw were common everyday tools when Ernest Buckler grew up on a Nova Scotia farm at the edge of the wilderness. (This book) recalls those days. With sudden stabbing immediacy it brings the reader a bird sound, an odor, acrid or delicious, a remembered vagary of wind or sun, the timbre of a voice, or the true look of the men and women who peopled the Nova Scotia of Mr. Buckler's boyhood. It brings back as well the whole texture of a life that now exists only in our memories of the snowbound world of Whittier and the farm life of our grandfathers' times - a life so deeply rooted in th e e l e m entals of earth and rock, wind and weather, and so closely paced to the rhythm of the seasons, of birth, growth and death, that each change on the face of nature (a blood-red sunset, a frost at dawn, the first pales leaves on a silver bir ch ) i s re so nant with meaning...." Gift inscription and two small stamps on free front endpaper, small bump to top edge of front board, minor rubbing. Dust jacket is price clipped, has very light edge wear/wrinkling, two very small tears and o ne ti ny ch ip. V G/VG Price: 15.00 USD
Add to Shopping Cart