patricia bay (4 resultados)

4to. Col.Ill.wrapps. 168pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. Signed by Patricia Skehan. Provides a stark account of the impact of the Spanish Flu on Australia, & the dramatic & alarming revelation of tragic mortality that killed between 50 & 100 million people.

Paperback small wide trade, very good condition, card covers, stapled, black & white photos & drawings, maps, family trees, staples rusted, rear cover little marked, pages lightly toned, minor edgewear. 69 pp. Patricia Stemp is the great-great-granddaughter of Walter Leonard and Bridget Duffy. She relates the story of this Irish convict couple and their family. This book commemorates a family reunion that celebrates the 150th anniversary of Bridget's arrival in Sydney Town on the barque 'Minerva' on 26 December 1839. Walter Leonard, who was to become her husband, had arrived two years earlier on the ship 'Neptune' on 2 January 1838. They left behind neither diaries nor portraits, so the pattern of their lives has been reconstructed from documents of public record, such as electoral rolls, birth, death and marriage certificates, land title records, and from contemporary publications and newspapers. SCARCE (Self-published).

Condición: very good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: no dustjacket. 4to pp.20, Signed by the managing editor on autograph page. book.

Condición: Very Good. On offer is a super, historical manuscript pair [2] of diaries handwritten by A.C. Parker #8 BR Squadron RCAF originally of Toronto. Parker does a super job detailing his service beginning January 1st, 1944 with being trained and educated in the art of aerial warfare putting in hours and hours of flight time and on gunnery firing many 100s of rounds near daily in practice at Fingal Ontario. Flying over Lake Erie is a freezing cold experience he notes without complaining. Prior to posting to British Columbia he manages a visit to family and friends in Toronto for dancing at the Granite Club a bit of a distance from his home on Royal York Road. There is also a dance at Women's College Hospital. In all 1944 is completely full describing daily his training and duties: rifle and revolver sighting, time in the turrets, flights, Morse Code training and tests, camera gun exercise, boxing with a PTI Sergeant, his trip to Vancouver, Port Hardy, Kelowna and much, much more. Historians and Researchers of the era will be hard pressed to find a more conscientious diarist recording his daily life as an RCAF Sergeant. 1945 is filled sporadically from Jan 1 to March and then a final entry noting VE Day on May 7th 1945. The 5½ x 3¼ inch official RCAF diaries are in very good condition with some general ageing save for the 1945 book that has a small puncture on the spine. Overall G+. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Manuscript.