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Presenting Our
Holiday Collection
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CHRISTMAS ON WEST SEVENTH STREET
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by Jerry Fearing
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
With dustjacket
9" x 6", 30 cartoons
64 pages
ISBN
1-890434-31-0
$15.00 |
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CHRISTMAS ON WEST SEVENTH STREET is a nostalgic look back in
words and cartoons to a simpler, more innocent time. In 1940 the country had
just passed through the terrible Depression and the war in Europe was still half
a world away. To a ten-year-old kid, the author's neighborhood in St. Paul,
Minnesota, was the center of the universe—especially at Christmas. "Only
now, when so much of it is gone or changed, do I realize what a treat it was
growing up on "West Seventh," says Fearing.
Jerry Fearing was a staff artist and cartoonist for the
St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch for more than forty years. Cartoon
Gallery Booksigning
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AN ADOLESCENT'S CHRISTMAS: 1944
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by Carol Bly
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
With dustjacket
9" x 6", 64 pages.
ISBN 1-890434-18-3
$15.00
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COLLECTOR
EDITION
Limited to fifty signed, numbered copies, handbound in Japanese silk
with goatskin
spine, housed in silk-covered slipcase.
ISBN 1-890434-20-5 $150.00
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What does it mean
if the fourteen year old daughter in an affectionate, loyal, and at least
"three-quarter’s cultured" family has bad dreams about the
Gestapo? This is memoir—not fiction—about a wartime Christmas in
Duluth. Young Carol has two weeks home from boarding school in the East.
Her mother has been dead two years, and two of her three brothers are away
at war. Recalling her own adolescent thinking, and thinking of what
adolescents experience now, Carol Bly comes to some astonishing
conclusions.
"What a lovely essay this is! It has an uncanny power
to transport the reader to 1944, U-boats circling in black waters, half a
family overseas, the Christmas dance. But best of all is the portrait of a
father who praises shabbiness while he practices honor and
reserve." —Bill Holm
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Dustjacket
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UNDERGROUND CHRISTMAS
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by Jon Hassler
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
With dustjacket, 9" x 6"
64 pages.
ISBN 1-890434-09-4
$15.00
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COLLECTOR
EDITION
Limited to fifty signed, numbered copies, handbound
in Japanese silk with goatskin
spine and fore-edges, housed in
silk-covered slipcase.
ISBN 1-890434-22-1 $175.00
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CLASSIC HASSLER, Jon’s story is about a man named Jay who has come
rather late to his midlife crisis. Nearing fifty, Jay finds himself
dislocated by a divorce and by his only child’s attempted suicide.
Seeking stability, he has taken a temporary teaching position at his alma
mater, St. Andrew’s College (which sounds suspiciously like St. John’s
at Collegeville). The story opens in the school’s potting shed, which in
earlier days had been a root cellar.
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Reviews
"And what a story it is!" —Foreword
magazine
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FACES OF CHRISTMAS PAST
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by Bill Holm
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
With dustjacket, 9" x 6"
64 pages.
ISBN 1-890434-02-7
$15.00
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An exceptional memoir that speaks with wit and grace to
the perils of Christmas and self-imposed burdens of ritual duty (like the
newsy Christmas xerox). Illustrated with annual Christmas card photos of the
author as a boy.
"In towns like Minneota, the solid front of Christmas
habit brought even the atheists to church on Christmas Eve. A Hindu could
not have escaped appearing in the manger scene, toasting the holiday
afterwards with garishly decorated butter cookies dunked in thin
coffee."
—Faces of Christmas Past
"Minnesota’s finest prose stylist, tiny Minneota’s
big Bill Holm, happily (for us) returns to print with this slight, elegant
meditation on Yuletide on the prairie."
—Mpls St. Paul
magazine
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CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S ON THE MINNESOTA FRONTIER |
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by Bertha L. Heilbron |
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
Limited to 1,500 first edition copies
9"x 6", 64 pages.
ISBN 0-9639338-9-2
$23.00 |
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Relive holiday merrymaking at Fort Snelling beginning in 1927. Join
missionary William Boutwell among the Indians at Leech Lake on New Year’s
Day 1834. Dine at Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey’s St. Paul
table on saddle of venison. Glimpse family Christmases in pioneer
communities including Faribault, Hastings, Le Sueur, Minneapolis, Sauk
Center, Shakopee, and Winona. This first book in our annual Christmas
series was published in 1996.
"One of the nicest things about this book is the inclusion of Ms. Heilbron’s reference notes to the original
letters and journals."
—The Afton Paper
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