Dew Upon the Grass by Allan, Billie Lamb - 1963

Saskatoon: Modern Press, 1963 Book. Very Good-. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A little reading wear. Inscribed by author on fly leaf. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Illustrated with b/w photos. 140 pp..

Saskatoon: Modern Press 1972, 2nd printing. (Mass market paperback) 140pp. Very good. Previous owners name small and neat to cover. Mapped endpapers. Settlement "north of 53" in the Moose Lake - the Pas area. Lamb's father was a fur trader and commercial fisherman..

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada: Western Producer, 1972. 3rd Printing. Soft cover. Fine. 23-15-4. In Very Good Used Condition. - Former Library Book. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. The Story Of Western Settlement Being Filled In. Settlement On The Prairies Has Been Well Covered, But What About The Northern Settlement Of The Northern Areas? This Story Deals With That Very Subject. It Is A True Account Of Pioneering In The Bush Country Of Manitoba, North Of 53. Tom Lamb, The Author's Father Came To Canada From Yorkshire In 1891. In Northern Manitoba He Met And Married A Girl From Portsmouth, They Raised Eleven Children. It Is A Heart-Warming Story Of Their Trials, Tears And Happiness And Their Struggle To Hew Out A Living In The Wilds Of An Unsettled Land. Written Into It Is The Deep Understanding And Tolerance That Grew Between The Family And The Native Indians, The Help They Gave One Another As Equal Friends Facing And Overcoming Common Problems.

Saskatoon: Modern Press 1963, 1st edition. (Wrappers) 140pp. Very good. Map endpapers, photographs. The spine is cocked. Book about Tom Lamb. Locale: Prairie Provinces; The Pas--Manitoba; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Bush Pilots, Local History--Manitoba).

A story about life in the northern prairies of Canada. "It is a true account of pioneering in the bush country of Manitoba, north of 53. Tom Lamb, the author's father, came to Canada from Yorkshire in 1891. In northern Manitoba he met and married a girl from Portsmouth, they raised eleven children. It is a heart-warming story of their trials, tears and happiness and their struggle to hew out a living in the wilds of an unsettled land. Written into it is the deep understanding and tolerance that grew between the family and the native Indian, the help they gave one another as equal friends facing and overcoming common problems." From the d.j. Map endpapers. Very nice signature of the author on the half-title. Numerous b/w photographs.

Dew Upon the Grass
ALLAN, Billie, Lamb
Modern Press, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 1963, softback with stiff card wraps, VG, illustrated end papers in addition to b/w frontispiece and b/w photographs throughout, 140 pp.
Neat inscription on front end paper, no annotations, sound tight binding, pages clean, lightly tanned, gentle rubs to edges and corners. Wraps intact, rubs to edges and corners, grubby in some areas, otherwise a good clean copy.
BIOGRAPHY, THE LAMB FAMILY, SETTLERS, EARLY 1900S, MANITOBA, LIVING IN THE WILDERNESS, SURVIVAL, RELATIONSHIPS WITH NATIVE INDIAN COMMUNITY
46447 BIOG/L £26.50