Author: PINKERTON, ROBERT E.
Title: The Test of Donald Norton
Description: Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee CO, 1924. Reprint; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and beginning fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. The front inner hinge has cracked and been partially repaired. "The Pinkertons married in 1911. Their first fictive effort a 30,000 word novelette sold to Munsey's Magazine. With the $150 earnings they departed for the wilds of Canada, where they built onto a cabin in the bush, eight miles from the village of Atikokan, Ontario. The only means of transport to and from Atikokan were by canoe in the summer and dog sled during the long Canadian winter. Their nonfiction pieces sold to outdoor magazines, totaling for their first two years work $532.00. Their fiction did not sell during this period. Two years later the Pinkertons came out of the bush for a short while, for the birth of their daughter, Bobs, and returned by dogsled when she was seven weeks old. "For the next four and one half years," wrote Ben Hibbs, then editor of The Country Gentleman, "they sold every story they wrote." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Robert E. Pinkerton Canada Fur Traders Hudson Bay Company Thriller
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Title: The Test of Donald Norton
Description: Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee CO, 1924. Reprint; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and beginning fraying. The text pages are clean and bright. The front inner hinge has cracked and been partially repaired. "The Pinkertons married in 1911. Their first fictive effort a 30,000 word novelette sold to Munsey's Magazine. With the $150 earnings they departed for the wilds of Canada, where they built onto a cabin in the bush, eight miles from the village of Atikokan, Ontario. The only means of transport to and from Atikokan were by canoe in the summer and dog sled during the long Canadian winter. Their nonfiction pieces sold to outdoor magazines, totaling for their first two years work $532.00. Their fiction did not sell during this period. Two years later the Pinkertons came out of the bush for a short while, for the birth of their daughter, Bobs, and returned by dogsled when she was seven weeks old. "For the next four and one half years," wrote Ben Hibbs, then editor of The Country Gentleman, "they sold every story they wrote." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Robert E. Pinkerton Canada Fur Traders Hudson Bay Company Thriller
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 41842
- Book number: 41842
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