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Berton, Pierre NIAGARA - A History of the Falls Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1993 0771012179 / 9780771012174 First Paperback Printing Soft Cover Very Good 480 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and diagrams. The Chapters are: One: Ice and Water; A Prodigious Cadence; The Most Awful Scene. Two: Augustus Porter's Sylvan Bower; William Forsyth's Folly; The Jumper and the Hermit. Three: That Enchanted Ground; The Father of Geology; Spanning the Gorge; John Roebling's Bridge. Four: Miss Bird Does Niagara; Frankenstein's Monster; Mr Church's Masterpiece. Five: The Prince of Manila; Farini the Great; Farini the Flirt; The Legacy of Niagara; Into the Maelstrom. Six: The Cave of the Forty Thieves; Private Greed; A Ramble on Goat Island; Saving Niagara from Itself; Casimir Gzowski to the Rescue. Seven: Harnessing the Waters; Tesla; The Golden Age; Utopian Dreams. Eight: Arthur Midleigh's Folly; The Ice Bridge; Annie; Fame and Fortune and Instant Death; Aftermath. Nine: The Canadian Connection; The People's Power; The Second Battle of Niagara; The Red-headed Hero; The Soaring Ambitions of Adam Beck. Ten: The Riverman's Return; The Richest Man in Canada; The End of the Honeymoon; Young Red's Last Ride. Eleven: The Witch's End of Fairyland; The Park Man; The River Takes Over; The Fighting Tuscarora. Twelve: The Miracle; The Blackout; Drying Up the Falls. Thirteen: Love Canal Makes the News; The Mother Instinct; The Long Crusade of Lois Gibbs; and Taking Hostages; followed by an afterword; a select bibliography; and an index. Price:
13.16 USD
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Berton, Pierre NIAGARA - A History of the Falls Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1993 0771012179 / 9780771012174 First Paperback Printing Soft Cover Very Good 480 pp. Light edge and corner wear with faint creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and diagrams. The Chapters are: One: Ice and Water; A Prodigious Cadence; The Most Awful Scene. Two: Augustus Porter's Sylvan Bower; William Forsyth's Folly; The Jumper and the Hermit. Three: That Enchanted Ground; The Father of Geology; Spanning the Gorge; John Roebling's Bridge. Four: Miss Bird Does Niagara; Frankenstein's Monster; Mr Church's Masterpiece. Five: The Prince of Manila; Farini the Great; Farini the Flirt; The Legacy of Niagara; Into the Maelstrom. Six: The Cave of the Forty Thieves; Private Greed; A Ramble on Goat Island; Saving Niagara from Itself; Casimir Gzowski to the Rescue. Seven: Harnessing the Waters; Tesla; The Golden Age; Utopian Dreams. Eight: Arthur Midleigh's Folly; The Ice Bridge; Annie; Fame and Fortune and Instant Death; Aftermath. Nine: The Canadian Connection; The People's Power; The Second Battle of Niagara; The Red-headed Hero; The Soaring Ambitions of Adam Beck. Ten: The Riverman's Return; The Richest Man in Canada; The End of the Honeymoon; Young Red's Last Ride. Eleven: The Witch's End of Fairyland; The Park Man; The River Takes Over; The Fighting Tuscarora. Twelve: The Miracle; The Blackout; Drying Up the Falls. Thirteen: Love Canal Makes the News; The Mother Instinct; The Long Crusade of Lois Gibbs; and Taking Hostages; followed by an afterword; a selecte bibliography; and an index. Price:
13.20 USD
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Berton, Pierre PARRY OF THE ARCTIC - Exploring the Frozen North Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1992 0771014341 / 9780771014345 First Printing Soft Cover Very Good Paul McCusker; Scott Cameron; (ix) 84 pp. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Scott Cameron; interior drawings by Paul McCusker. Also illustrated with maps. The Chapters are: The Strange People; Into the Unknown; The Ice Won't Budge; The People of Igloolik; The End of the Fury; and Treadmill to the Pole; followed by an index. Price:
8.76 USD
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Jack, Donald (forewords by Pierre Berton and Martin M. Hoffman) ROGUES REBELS AND GENIUSES - The Story of Canadian Medicine (by the author of The Bandy Papers) Toronto Doubleday Canada 1981 0385155751 / 9780385155755 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good (ix) 662 pp. Brown boards lettered in silver on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Life Blood; The Med School of Torture; Perspective: From Mummies to Fathers of Science; Botchers Bunglers and a Genius or Two; Fleglottomy and Other Emergencies; Perspective: From Circulation to Vaccination; Pork Pickles and Pock-marks; Mercury and Venus; The Tiger; Maritime Lancets; The Forty-below Execution; Forceps and Fisticuffs; Perspective: Oh I'm an Angel; One-eyed MacKay and Others; Perspective: The Bloodstained Frock Coat; William Osler; Osler Abroad; A Cheeky Gynecologist; Marooned on an Ice Pan; The Magnetic Dr Shepherd; Women in Medicine - Certainly Not; King Murrough of Manitoba; Two Prairie Surgeons; And Four Psychiatrists; The Most Famous Woman Doctor of Her Time; Establishment Figures; War Heroes; A Most Unlikely Genius; Perspective: The Inside Story; The Specialist; Jews Were Not Gentlemen; The Missionary Position; Bethune: All the Rage; Dr Black's Skull; That Vicious Power in Women; Seagull for Christmas; Arctic Blues; Perspective: Infection - Quest and Conquest; Two Famous Country Doctors; Penfield; The Rescue Specialist; Defiance; The Selfish Paragon; and Blood and Sympathy; followed by: Capsule Biographies; Notes; Bibliography; Canadian Faculties of Medicine; and an index. Price:
39.60 USD
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Jack, Donald (forewords by Pierre Berton and Martin M. Hoffman) ROGUES REBELS AND GENIUSES - The Story of Canadian Medicine (by the author of The Bandy Papers) Toronto Doubleday Canada 1981 0385155751 / 9780385155755 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good (ix) 662 pp. Brown boards lettered in silver on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; previous owner's name inside. The Chapters are: Life Blood; The Med School of Torture; Perspective: From Mummies to Fathers of Science; Botchers Bunglers and a Genius or Two; Fleglottomy and Other Emergencies; Perspective: From Circulation to Vaccination; Pork Pickles and Pock-marks; Mercury and Venus; The Tiger; Maritime Lancets; The Forty-below Execution; Forceps and Fisticuffs; Perspective: Oh I'm an Angel; One-eyed MacKay and Others; Perspective: The Bloodstained Frock Coat; William Osler; Osler Abroad; A Cheeky Gynecologist; Marooned on an Ice Pan; The Magnetic Dr Shepherd; Women in Medicine - Certainly Not; King Murrough of Manitoba; Two Prairie Surgeons; And Four Psychiatrists; The Most Famous Woman Doctor of Her Time; Establishment Figures; War Heroes; A Most Unlikely Genius; Perspective: The Inside Story; The Specialist; Jews Were Not Gentlemen; The Missionary Position; Bethune: All the Rage; Dr Black's Skull; That Vicious Power in Women; Seagull for Christmas; Arctic Blues; Perspective: Infection - Quest and Conquest; Two Famous Country Doctors; Penfield; The Rescue Specialist; Defiance; The Selfish Paragon; and Blood and Sympathy; followed by: Capsule Biographies; Notes; Bibliography; Canadian Faculties of Medicine; and an index. Price:
39.60 USD
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Berton, Pierre (foreword by the Reverend Ernest Harrison) THE COMFORTABLE PEW - A Critical Look at Christianity and the Religious Establishment in the New Age Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1965 First Edition Trade Paperback Very Good 158 pp. This is the earliest uncorrected proof of The Comfortable Pew - the Rush Proof - for Immediate Attention with a note from the publisher pasted on the front cover and all the promotional materials dropped inside: a biography of Pierre Berton put together by the publisher; a folded 12" by 22" poster advertising the book; and a 5" by 6" black and white glossy promotional photograph of the author. Light wear on the corners with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. The Chapters are: Foreword: The Uncomfortable Gamble by Reverend Ernest Harrison; THE PAST: WHY I LEFT THE ANGLICAN CHURCH; THE ABDICATION OF LEADERSHIP: Was God Really On Our Side; Can Nuclear War Ever Be Just; What Colour Was Christ; Is Good Business the Church's Business; Can Christian Morality Be Pre-packaged. THE TYRANNY OF THE RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENT: The Worship of National Creeds; The Ecclesiastical Caste System; Religion versus Christianity; The Casting Out of the Outcasts; The Comfortable Pew. THE FAILURE OF COMMUNICATION: Pretensions to Absolute Rightness; The Special Language of Priesthood; The Lukewarm Pulpit; The Rejection of Twentieth Century Media; Faith Without Dogma. And THE FUTURE: Is Revolution Possible; followed by notes and an index . Price:
30.80 USD
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Berton, Pierre THE DIONNE YEARS - A Thirties Melodrama Toronto Seal Bantam Book 1978 0770415407 / 9780770415402 Third Printing Paperback Very Good 303 pp. Light edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: The Road to Quintland; Beyond the Shores of Nipissing; May 28 1934; The Prescience of Ivan Spear; Guardianship; Manhattan Merry-go-round; The Spectre of Chicago; The Men Behind Dafoe; A Little Filthy Lucre; Cashing In; The French-Canadian Connection; Under One Roof; and Aftermath; followed by a bibliography and an index. Price:
8.76 USD
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Berton, Pierre THE DIONNE YEARS - A Thirties Melodrama Toronto Penguin Books 1991 0140139524 / 9780140139525 First Paperback Printing Soft Cover Very Good 232 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The Contents are: The Road to Quintland; Beyond the Shores of Nipissing; May 28 1934; The Prescience of Ivan Spear; Guardianship; Manhattan Merry-go-round; The Spectre of Chicago; The Men Behind Dafoe; A Little Filthy Lucre; Cashing In; The French-Canadian Connection; Under One Roof; and Aftermath; followed by a bibliography and an index. Price:
10.56 USD
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Berton, Pierre THE GOLDEN TRAIL - The Story of the Klondike Rush - Great Stories of Canada Toronto Macmillan 1954 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Duncan MacPherson; 147 pp. Yellow boards decorated in blue and brown on the front panel and spine; illustrated endpapers; dj art and interior drawings by Duncan MacPherson. Wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few small nicks around the edges; slight fading on the spine; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Luck of Siwash George; Millions in a Moose Pasture; The World's Richest Paupers; The Great Rush Begins; Three Thousand Dying Horses; Starvation; The Terrible Chilkoot Pass; A Thousand Trails Led North; The Great Armada Down the Yukon; and Stampede's End. Price:
17.60 USD
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Berton, Pierre THE INVASION OF CANADA 1812 - 1813 Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1980 0771012357 / 9780771012358 Third Printing Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Gerry Sevier; Tom McNeely; 363 pp. Quarter bound in red cloth with white boards; lettered in gilt; headband; illustrated endpapers. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; slight discolouration on the rear panel; a few nicks along the upper edge of the dustjacket. Cover by Gerry Sevier; endpaper illustrations by Tom McNeely. The Chapters are: Preview: Proter Hanks's War; Overview: The War of 1812; Prelude to Invasion: 1807 - 1811: The Road to Tippecanoe; Prelude to Invasion: 1812 - Marching As to War; Michilimackinac - The Bloodless Victory; Detroit - The Disintegration of William Hull; Chicago - Horror on Lake Michigan; Queenston Heights - The End of Isaac Brock; Black Rock - Opera Bouffe on the Niagara; Frenchtown - Massacre at the River Raisin; Afterview - The New War; Coda: William Atherton's War. Price:
22.00 USD
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Berton, Pierre THE PROMISED LAND - Settling the West 1896 - 1914 Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1984 0771012438 / 9780771012433 Second Printing Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Tom McNeely; Signed by Author 388 pp. Personalised inscription on the title page by Pierre Berton. Red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated endpapers. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket. Endpaper illustrations by Tom McNeely. The Chapters are: Prologue: Professor Oleskow's Vision; The Young Napoleon of the West; The Sheepskin People; The Spirit Wrestlers; Isaac Barr's Lambs; The Problem of the English; The American Invasion; The Passing of the Old Order; The Sifton Scandals; The Spirit of the West; The Dark Side of Boosterism; Boom and Bust; Epilogue: On the Winnipeg Platform. Price:
30.80 USD
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Berton, Pierre THE SECRET WORLD OF OG Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1984 0771013868 / 9780771013867 Later Printing Trade Paperback Very Good Patsy Berton; Signed by Author 160 pp. Personalised inscription by Pierre Berton on the half-title page. Light edge and corner wear with a faint crease on the spine; aside from the author's inscription, no interior markings. Wraparound cover art and interior black and white and colour drawings by Patsy Berton. Price:
35.16 USD
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Minter, Roy (foreword by Pierre Berton) THE WHITE PASS - Gateway to the Klondike Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1987 0771060556 / 9780771060557 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good (xii) 394 pp. Black boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband; illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Light wear on the corners of the dustjacket; book plate on the half-title page. The Chapters are: The Mystery Pass; The Men from England; A Paper Railway; Klondike Gold; The Promoters; The Battle of the Passes; The Irish Prince; A Chance Meeting; London Gives the Nod; Brackett's Bluff; Shootout on Juneau Wharf; The First Train; Blasting the Grade; Winter in the White Pass; Crises of Men and Money; On to Bennett City; Heney's Seventy Miles; and The Bent Spike; followed by an epilogue, a bibliography, notes and an index. Price:
30.80 USD
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Howse, Ernest Marshall (foreword) (Pierre Berton; Michael Barkway; Arnold Edinborough; June Callwood; Joan Hollobon; Eric Nicol) WHY THE SEA IS BOILING HOT - A Symposium on the Church and the World Toronto The Ryerson Press 1965 First Edition Trade Paperback Very Good 61 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some rubbing on the cover and minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: Foreword by The Right Rev. Ernest M. Howse - Moderator - The United Church of Canada; Out of this World - A Commentary on the Organized Church by Pierre Berton; Is the Church Big Business - A Commentary on Church Finances by Michael Barkway; The Minister and the Twentieth Century - A Commentary on the Clergy by Arnold Edinborough; The In-Group and the Rest - A Commentary on the Local Congregation by June Callwood; Digging the Lingo - A Commentary on Church Language by Joan Hollobon; Christianity Under the Trappings - A Critic's Analysis by Eric Nicol; followed by: The Simmering Church; The Hope of the Gospel; Canadian Christians Amid Revolution; and The Time Has Come, written by an editorial committee comprising Mr Arthur Brydon, Rev. Warren Bruleigh and Rev. Gordon K. Stewart. Price:
10.52 USD
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