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The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881-1885
by Berton, Pierre
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771013272
- ISBN 13
- 9780771013270
- Seller
-
Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1971. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Courtney C.J. Bond (Maps). Companion to The National Dream. Hardcover in red cloth with railway spike silhouette pressed to the front board and gilt titling to the spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes b&w Maps, Cast of Major Characters, Chronology, bibliographical references and an Index. The book is square, the binding firm, and the cloth is bright and handsome with only very minor wear. Presents as at least very good except for the foxing on the text block. Top edge dull. The half title also shows some browning, but otherwise the foxing penetrates only slightly and the interior has little evidence of discolouration. The unclipped dust jacket is edge worn, rubbed, and feels a little drab. Top edge with some browning.
Synopsis
Pierre Berton, Canada's most widely read historian, was born in the Yukon and educated at UBC. Author of forty-seven books, he has received three Governor General's awards for nonfiction, two Nellies for broadcasting, two National Newspaper awards, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the National History Society's first award for "distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history." He holds eleven honorary degrees, is a member of the Newsman's Hall of Fame, and is a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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- Bookseller
- Pulp & Circumstance
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001172
- Title
- The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881-1885
- Author
- Berton, Pierre
- Illustrator
- Courtney C.J. Bond (Maps)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0771013272
- ISBN 13
- 9780771013270
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 478
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Post-Confederation (1867-), History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Transportation; Canada;
- X weight
- 0 lbs
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P&C strives to ensure that all items are clean and fairly described. Packages will be wrapped with care and dispatched as soon as feasible, usually on the next business day.
We do not use stock photos. All our photos are of the actual item offered for sale. We try to include the publishers' own descriptions of content by including photos of dust jacket flaps and back covers so far as they seem useful, and we also use photos to show material flaws where we can.
The "Pulp & Circumstance" watermark you might notice in some of our photos does not, of course, appear on any of the items themselves.
Please note that the colour in our photos often fails to come out right. The hue shifts a bit due to the limitations of our equipment, the lighting in our workshop, and of course my own lack of photographic expertise.
Shipping costs per book are always cheaper when more than one book is sent in the same package. Read more about shipping charges in "Terms of Sale" below.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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