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Berton, Pierre KLONDIKE - The Last Great Gold Rush 1896 - 1899
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1977 0771012837 / 9780771012839 Fourth Printing Hard Cover Very Good Very Good Signed by Author
(xxiii) 472 pp. Signed on the title page by Pierre Berton. Revised edition. Orange cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers; headband; illustrated with maps. Some wear on the corners of the dustjacket; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings. The Chapters are: The Golden Highway. One: The Pilgrims; Gold - All Same Like This; The Hermits of Fortymile; The Land of the Golden Rule. Two: The Prospector and the Squaw Man; The Exculpation of Lying George; Moose Pastures; The Kinds of Eldorado; Henderson's Luck. Three: Clarence Berry Strikes It Rich; The Death of Circle City; The Birth of Dawson; A Friend in Need; Big Alex and Swiftwater Bill; City of Gold. Four: The Treasure Ships; Rich Man Poor Man; A Ton of Gold; Klondicitis; Warnings All Unheeded; Balloons Boatsleds and Bicycles; Fearful Passage. Five: Captain Billy's Last Stand; The Swarming Sands of Skagway; The Dead Horse Trail; Hell on Earth; The Human Serpent. Six: Starvation Winter; Revolt on the Yukon; A Dollar a Waltz; Only a Coal Miner's Daughter; Greenhorns Triumphant; The Saint of Dawson. Seven: The Trails of Ninety-eight; Rich Man's Route; Frozen Highways; Buy Me Here Where I Failed; Overland from Edmonton; The Road to Destruction City. Eight: The Chilkoot; Up the Golden Stairs; One of Everybody; Death Beneath the Snows. Nine: Rage in the Sawpits; The Lion of the Yukon; The Outlandish Armada; Split-up City. Ten: Cheechako; Carnival Summer; Champagne for Breakfast; Remember the Sabbath; Graft and the Nugget. Eleven: Soapy Smith Takes Over; Alias Robin Hood; The Committee of 101; Dictator of Skayway; Shoot-out at the Juneau Rock; No Escape. Twelve: Gold Restless Gold; The San Francisco of the North; The False Fronts of Front Street; Queens of Dance-hall Row; Fortune's Wheels; The Last Stampede; Tales of Conspicuous Wealth; Money to Burn. And Thirteen: Finale; The Legacy of the Gold Rush; and River of Ghosts; followed by an index.
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61.75 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. Scans are available for all books.
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14.25 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 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 selecte bibliography; and an index. Scans are available for all books.
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14.25 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.
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9.50 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 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. Scans are available for all books.
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42.75 USD
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Staebler, Edna (introduction by Pierre Berton) SAUERKRAUT AND ENTERPRISE
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1969 First Printing Soft Cover Very Good Vlasta van Kampen;
96 pp. Actually a first thus - first revised edition. Edge and corner wear with some creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by Vlasta van Kampen. The Chapters are: The Old Order Mennonites of Waterloo County; Mennonite Meals; Market Day in Kitchener; The Old Order Amish; and Kitchener and Waterloo.
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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. Scans are available for all books.
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23.75 USD
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Berton, Pierre THE MYSTERIOUS NORTH
New York Alfred A. Knopf 1956 Second Printing Hard Cover Very Good Good Only
(xiii) 345 (xv) pp. White cloth decorated in black and red. Chips along the upper edge of the front panel and on the rear panel; some creasing around the edges and darkening on the spine; minor discolouration on the covers; price clipped; previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. The Chapters are: The Mysterious North; The Legend of Headless Valley - The Myth; Sixty-eight Below; On the Rim of the Nahanni; Into the Valley; The Graveyard of Lost Planes; The Trail of '48 - The Gateway to the North; The Cinderella City; Ghosts on the Kondike; The Smell of Gold; Land Forsaken and Seas Forlorn - The Tracks of the Ice Sheet; The Island of Big Flat Stones; The Treeless Beach; Airlift to the Arctic; Iron in the Land of Cain; The Land of Feast and Famine - Fur Country; Boom Country; River Country; Barren Country.
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19.00 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. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Red cloth lettered in gilt; 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. Scans are available for all books.
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Berton, Pierre THE SECRET WORLD OF OG
Toronto McClelland and Stewart 1978 0771013868 / 9780771013867 Later Printing Trade Paperback Very Good Patsy Berton;
160 pp. Light edge and corner wear with some minor creasing on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Wraparound cover art and interior black and white and colour drawings by Patsy Berton.
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19.00 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.
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42.75 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. Scans are available for all books.
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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.
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