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Conventional fiction

 Subject
Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 1165 Collections and/or Records:

Travelog: Guidebook & Map, 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-31288-32761
Scope and Contents

The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

Travelog: Guidebook & Map / Ratajcak, Donna ; Hartland, Jessie., 1994

 Item
Identifier: CC-03676-3741
Scope and Contents

The map illustrates the journeys of the protagonist in the story printed on the verso. The book is folded and covered like a conventional roadmap. The typography appears to be circa 1950's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1994

True to Type / Crombie, John., 1989

 Item
Identifier: CC-46389-49114
Scope and Contents

This is a fictional biography of a man from his birth to age 80 years when he is near death. Several typefaces are employed to simulate the aging process. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Turistou proti sve vuli / Hoffmeister, Adolf ; Teige K., 1946

 Item
Identifier: CC-31848-33368
Scope and Contents

This story deals with Hoffmeister's escape from Prague after the Nazi invasion. It then recounts his experiences in the American army and finally his return to Prague after the end of WWII. The cover was designed by Karel Teige after a drawing in the book by Hoffmeister. The illustrations in the book are mainly cartoon-like line drawings. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1946

Turvey: A Picaresque Novel, 1958

 Item
Identifier: CC-21485-21896
Scope and Contents

This is a comic novel on Canadian military forces on WWII. It is the first British and American edition of the book first published in Canada in 1949. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1958