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The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881
de Berton Pierre
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Acceptable
- Librería
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1970. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1970. No Edition Remarks. 439 pages. Black dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are bright and clear with moderate tanning to free endpapers and text block edges. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout, with a few small nicks and water drops along text block edge. Boards have light shelf-wear with minor corner bumping and mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean and bow. Unclipped jacket has moderate surface wear, with areas of loss, chips, tears and creasing to edges, corners and spine ends.
Sinopsis
Pierre Berton was one of Canada’s most popular and prolific authors. From narrative histories and popular culture, to picture and coffee table books to anthologies, to stories for children to readable, historical works for youth, many of his fifty books are now Canadian classics. Born in 1920 and raised in the Yukon, Pierre Berton worked in Klondike mining camps during his university years. He spent four years in the army, rising from private to captain/instructor at the Royal Military College in Kingston. He spent his early newspaper career in Vancouver, where at 21 he was the youngest city editor on any Canadian daily. He wrote columns for and was editor of Maclean’s magazine, appeared on CBC’s public affairs program “Close-Up” and was a permanent fixture on “Front Page Challenge” for 39 years. He was a columnist and editor for the Toronto Star and was a writer and host of a series of CBC programs. Pierre Berton received over 30 literary awards including the Governor-General’s Award for Creative Non-Fiction (three times), the Stephen Leacock Medal of Humour, and the Gabrielle Leger National Heritage Award. He received two Nellies for his work in broadcasting, two National Newspaper awards, and the National History Society’s first award for “distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history.” For his immense contribution to Canadian literature and history, he was awarded more than a dozen honourary degrees, is a member of the Newsman’s Hall of Fame, and is a Companion of the Order of Canada. Pierre Berton passed away in Toronto on November 30, 2004. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Librería
- World of Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1693559243DPB
- Título
- The National Dream: The Great Railway, 1871-1881
- Autor
- Berton Pierre
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good/Acceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- McClelland and Stewart Limited
- Fecha de publicación
- 1970
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
