Homebrew Patches by Boyle Harry (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.9.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Some edgewear. With a Foreword by Harry Halliwell. Originally published 1961 by Clarke, Irwin & Co. Ltd,; published in Paperjacks 1972.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, 173 pages; very light cover edge wear, gentle corner bumps, otherwise very gently used, ink signature on free front endpaper, text pages very clean and unmarked; DJ has numerous chips and short tears. See also our listings for Boyle's Straws in the Wind.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 173 Pages, Dust Jacket Edge Chipped O/W Sound. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tight clean book in dj with 1.5" tear. signed by author on title page. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Signed by Author(s)The jacket is shelf rubbed and edgeworn.mild tanning.no inscriptions.well bound.very good copy.[S.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition 2nd Printing. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Free Endpaper Missing; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Book Pocket, Jacket Cover; Corners, Spine Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Heavily Cocked; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. WITH A FOREWORD BY: Harry Halliwell. CONTENTS: 1 The Bad Old Days 2 Romance of Railroads 3 The Chilling Time 4 Winter and Appetites 5 Tinkering and Saving 6 Catalogues 7 Spring and the bride Hunters 8 Growing Up 9 The Instruction 10 Age of Rebellion 11 The Good Samaritans 12 School Daze 13 Adolescence and High Schools 14 The Social Graces 15 Bitter-sweet Memories 16 Elections 17 The Unchangeables 18 Epidemics and Patent Medicines 19 The Mechanical Age 20 Impressions 21 Food for Free 22 Auctions 23 General Merchant 24 Memories of Mother 25 They Were All Equal 26 Christmas Harmony. SYNOPSIS: Harry Boyle's first book, Mostly in Clover, was a sensitive portrait of a young boy growing up in rural Ontario during the 1920's. Homebrew and Patches follows the same boy as he moves from the farm to the comparative sophistication of the continuation school in the nearby small town. For the boy, the growing-up process was complicated by the Great Depression which brought the "Hungry Thirties" to the farming communities. Hence the title; for times were so bad on the farm that "making do" was cultivated to a fine art and materials were so scarce that "there were even patches on patches." But looking back on those years, and trying to explain to his readers what life was really like in the bad, old days, Mr. Boyle comes to the conclusion that the misery of the Hungry Thirties was very much mitigated by the amusing incidents which brightened life on the family farm. For even during the Depression there were always diversions for a country boy. Mr. Boyle recounts the mysteries of an ice-harvest, the questionable delights of experiments with tobacco, a boy's first shave, and the proposed fund-raising oyster supper which no one knew how to prepare. The new department-store catalogue - one of the family's favourite diversions - was a source of wistful dreams for the entire family. Mr. Boyle's account of the subterfuge employed by the family to buy Mother an Easter hat is touching and funny, even while it underlines the seriousness of the Depression and the hardships that it caused. For all that Mr. Boyle writes about the Hungry Thirties, he does not limit his book to the trials of "making do." His abiding interest is people; and he has a special tender affection and amused understanding for his central figure, the boy he was thirty years ago. For that boy, growing-up was a process so engrossing that it sometimes overshadowed the difficulties of the Thirties. Young Harry's first date, first dance and his first great love affair - with the high school art teacher - were such momentous milestones in the adolescent's life that the Depression momentarily took second place to them in importance. Such incidents, when seen in their proper perspective, lend themselves to deliciously funny exploitation, and in Homebrew and Patches Mr. Boyle exploits them to the fullest extent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Third Printing. pp.173 with an introduction by Harry Halliwell Second book where he moves from the farm to a small town. clean tight copy slight rubbing to edges and corners with smal nicks/creases to top/bottom spoine former owner name whited out on frontpiece Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

inscription signed by Boyle on flyleaf, good in fair d.j.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 173 pp. Light edgewear, some light spotting on back board, a few very light marks on top edge; price-clipped pictorial dustjacket rubbed along spine and edges of panel, some creasing at spine ends, a few short closed tears, spotting along top of rear flap fold, else a very good copy. A humorous work of fiction, detailing the life of a young boy growing up on a farm in Ontario during the Great Depression. " . even during the Depression there were always diversions for a country boy. Mr. Boyle recounts the mysteries of an ice-harvest, the questionable delights of experiments with tobacco, a boy's first shave, and the proposed fund-raising oyster supper which no one knew how to prepare.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket is worn and tattered at edges, small sticker on front end page, otherwise text is very clean and well bound. Even during the Depression there were always diversions for a country boy. Harry Boyle recounts the mysteries of an ice-harvest, the questionable delights of experiments with tobacco, a boy's first shave, and the proposed fund-raising oyster supper which no one knew how to prepare. Touching and funny, even while underlining the seriousness of the Depression and the hardships that it caused.

Cloth in dust jacket. Condition: Very good. x,173 Pp. With a foreword by Harry Halliwell. Signed by author on the title page.