Macmillan, Toronto, 1976, 1^st pr thus; Laurentian Library #39.  To which is added this author’s introduction to Mark Hurdlestone.  ISBN 0-7705-1409-X.  Edited and Introduced by Robert L. McDougall.  Trade soft cover, 298 pages including Index.  Very good; wraps show some edge and cover wear, corner creases, reading creases; binding sound with a slight lean.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages; black & white illustrations and map.  ‘Though it was written by a pioneer in pioneering times, Life in the Clearings is a very civilized book.  In it Mrs. Moodie, a refined and sophisticated person by upbringing and inclination, looks about her at the relatively advanced society which had grown up in the clearings along the “front” of the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario.  Here we are concerned, not with the woodman’s axe and the primitive struggle against nature, but with the growth and development of a cultured society in and around the towns – not with solitary but with social man.’ (from rear wrap)