Brass Pounder
by MacLeod, Charlotte
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine - Price Clipped
- Seller
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STREETSVILLE, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston & Toronto: Little Brown & Co, 1971 Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. "Mostly true with some stretcher" memoir of author's father, Phil MacLeod, who was a brass pounder, the youngest telegraph operator in the Canadian Maritimes in the early 1900s. He relates tales of reporting elections, the sinking of the Titanic, Dublin's 1916 Easter Uprising, relaying the "Hot Line" for the first trans-Atlantic trip of a sitting U.S. President, and news of WWI. 212p. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 33687
- Title
- Brass Pounder
- Author
- MacLeod, Charlotte
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine - Price Clipped
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston & Toronto
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- CANADA FICTION MARITIMES TELEGRAPHY CANADIAN WRITER
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Fiction;
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KALAMOS BOOKS
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