… AND THE CHILDREN PLAYED

Tundra Books, 1975.  ISBN 0-88776-056-2 (Canada) and ISBN 0-912766-16-6 (US), published simultaneously in both countries.  Hard cover, 174 pages.  Black boards with gilt lettering on spine.  Binding sound with a very slight flare to boards.  Dust jacket with price intact has short edge tears, tiny losses at corners and spine ends, some creases and scratches; some impressions on front panel and some sunning all around.  Interior clean and unmarked with black & white photos; small age spots on rear end paper.  ‘Way back in the fifties, long before it was fashionable to drop out, Patricia Joudry and husband John Steele did just that.  Patricia was Canada’s richest playwright (Broadway plays, films, radio serials) and John a successful photographer when they decided to forge a new life style for themselves.  They quit Canada with their baby, moved into a dilapidated fourteenth century English farmhouse, had two more children and spent the next ten years trying to keep the house and keep their children out of school.’ (from front flap)