(the 1922 hardback cover of Grove’s first book in Canada by McClelland & Stewart)
(the evocative illustrations in the above book and the ones in The Turn of the Year were done by C.M. Manly)
(Grove’s most controversial book, 1925’s Settlers of the Marsh, Grosset & Dunlap/Doran; especially hard-to-find with this dust jacket)
(most Grove books cannot be found signed; this title is also impossible to find in a dust jacket)
(the 1929 Macmillan dust jacket of this title)
(the 1928 Carrier dj, reissued in 1939 by Ryerson)
(the 1930 Smith dj known for its blue-ing tone of the original white on cover)
(the extremely rare, intact dust jacket of this 1933 Dent book)
(the ltd. ed 400 copy signed run of the 1944 Macmillan)
(by this point, Grove was no longer signing his full names)
(the unexpected 1947 Macmillan fantasy novel with ants on the cover)
Frederick Philip Grove (1871-1948) a.k.a. Felix Paul Greve, was born in Europe and travelled there widely before coming to settle and work in the harshness of rural Manitoba as a teacher. In 1915, he started writing which led to two unique books Over Prairie Trails and The Turn of the Year, based on his travel experiences as a teacher.
Grove moved to Ontario, then brought out a series of naturalistic prairie novels about immigrant experience, often pitting sons against fathers. His sexually frank Settlers of the Marsh offended many genteel readers of the day. And his last book, Consider Her Ways is a parable about a colony of ants! He won a G-G award for In Search of Myself (1946–Non-fiction)