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AN ACCIDENTAL CANADIAN - Reflections from My Home and (not) Native Land
by Wente, Margaret
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0002007983
- ISBN 13
- 9780002007986
- Seller
-
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 8vo. (xii) 239 pp. Signed by Margaret Wente on the title page. Beige boards lettered in gilt on the spine; beige endpaper; headband. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; aside from the author's signature, no interior markings; ink mark on the upper edge of the text block beside the headband. The Chapters are: Confessions of an Accidental Canadian; Our Icons; Early Me; Confessions of a Mid-Life Bride; I Was Conrad Black's Boss; Roughing It in the Bush con Latte; The Mommy Track; Kids Today; Schools 'r' Us; Our Royals; A Woman's Wisest Years; I Married a Retrosexual; Women without Men; and If We're So Rich Why Aren't We Happy; followed by an epilogue..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 227135
- Title
- AN ACCIDENTAL CANADIAN - Reflections from My Home and (not) Native Land
- Author
- Wente, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002007983
- ISBN 13
- 9780002007986
- Publisher
- Harper Collins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- conrad black; canada; american; america; feminism; equality; equal rights; me too movement; liberation; women's rights; issues; social oppression; reproductive freedom; feminist movement;
Terms of Sale
W. Fraser Sandercombe
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
We are primarily an Internet-only bookstore, selling on-line for over twenty-three years; our shop can, however, be visited by appointment through an e-mail. We specialize in First Editions and collectible books (and usually have around 500 signed editions in stock at any given moment) ranging through most of the genres: Fantasy; Horror; Science Fiction; Mysteries; and a good selection of Literature; Historical Adventure; History; Outdoors; True Crime; and Assorted Non-fiction. We stock roughly 9000 books and add to our catalogues regularly.
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- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
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