Author: MACDONALD, BETTY
Title: Onions in the Stew
Description: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with small tears and chipping, creasing, previous owner's name on front free end paper. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. No additional printings mentioned. Yellow paper covered boards over black cloth spine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, Onions in the Stew recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote Vashon Island along with her second husband, Don MacDonald, and her two teenage daughters.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: HUMOR The eggs and I vashon island HUMOR
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Title: Onions in the Stew
Description: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. DJ shows shelf wear with small tears and chipping, creasing, previous owner's name on front free end paper. ; A tight solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector, unclipped. No additional printings mentioned. Yellow paper covered boards over black cloth spine ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; ""For twelve years we MacDonalds have been living on an island in Puget Sound. There is no getting away from it, life on an island is different from life in the St. Francis Hotel but you can get used to it, can even grow to like it. 'C'est la guerre, ' we used to say looking wistfully toward the lights of the big comfortable warm city just across the way. Now, as November (or July) settles around the house like a wet sponge, we say placidly to each other, 'I love it here. I wouldn't live anywhere else.'" Betty MacDonald's final memoir, Onions in the Stew recounts her second attempt at farm-living, this time on Washington's then-remote Vashon Island along with her second husband, Don MacDonald, and her two teenage daughters.. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .
Keywords: HUMOR The eggs and I vashon island HUMOR
Price: US$ 39.95 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 19601
- Book number: 19601
See more books from our catalog: Autobiography