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Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. ALSO KNOWN AS: Many portions of this book originally appeared in The New Yorker as "A Reporter at Large" or as "Profiles." WITH A FOREWORD BY: Allan Fotheringham. COVER TAPESTRY BY: Rita Oosuaq; reproduced courtesy of Arctic Co-operatives Ltd. COVER/JACKET DESIGN BY: Roger Handling. ILLUSTRATIONS: The illustrations in this book by the artists Abe Birnbaum, Tom Funk, Thomas B. Allen and Burt Silverman all appeared originally in The New Yorker. The sealskin stencil print by Sheouak, "Men Meeting," appeared on the cover of the program for the First Conference of the Arctic Co-operatives, Frobisher Bay, NWT, March 1963. CONTENTS: Foreword - Allan Fotheringham; Author's Note; Part One: EARLY YEARS Marian Anderson; Mrs. Roosevelt; War Correspondent; Part Two: NEW YORK The UN Builds… Read More

Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., 1988. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges, Boards Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. ALSO KNOWN AS: Parts of this book first appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker. JACKET: The chart on the jacket was John Daly's and shows his notations. DESIGNED BY: Tere Lo Prete. SYNOPSIS: Fishing with John is the story of an adventure. In 1974, in middle age, Edith Iglauer, who had been born into a comfortably well-off family in Cleveland and had lived a privileged, urban, sophisticated life in New York, met a commercial salmon fisherman in British Columbia, married him, and spent the better part of the next four years, until Daly's death, on his forty-one-foot troller the Morekelp. The book is also the story of John Daly, an impassioned and greatly talented fisherman who was convinced he could "think… Read More

New York: Avon Books - The Hearst Corporation, 1974. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Intrigue, Mystery, and a Man's Lust for Gold! BOOK NUMBER: 18465. TV TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1979 Made-for-Television mini series of the same name. CONTENTS: PART ONE Drym; PART TWO Jarra Jarra; PART THREE Golden Soak; PART FOUR Ora Banda; PART FIVE Ed Garrety; PART SIX Interlude on Remand; PART SEVEN McIlroy's Monster; Author's Note. SYNOPSIS: FIRST The Wreck of the Mary Deare THEN The Doomed Oasis; Atlantic Fury; The Strode Venturer LAST YEAR Levkas Man NOW! The Golden Soak. The staggering adventure of Alec Falls who risks everything on a legendary mine of inexhaustible richness. Pride, greed, and regeneration are breathtakingly brought together in a novel by the writer described by John Barkham as one who "can weave a spell as to the manner… Read More

London: Fontana/Collins, 1974. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. His New Bestseller. BOOK NUMBER: 3441. TV TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1979 Made-for-Television mini series of the same name. CONTENTS: Drym; Jarra Jarra; Golden Soak; Ora Banda; Ed Garrety; Interlude on Remand; McIlroy's Monster. SYNOPSIS: Hammond Innes was in Australia when the great mineral boom began to collapse in 1970. The iron cauldron of the Pilbara was part of that boom. So was Blue Spec up by Marble Bar, and it was this mine that became the Golden Soak of his imagination. The appalling heat of the Australian outback burns through the pages as disaster hits this old abandoned gold mine. It hangs over the drought-starved cattle station of Jarra Jarra, once a pastoral empire of a million and a half acres. And beyond the sun-scorched horizon, deep in the Gibson Desert,… Read More

Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP), 1999. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. ALSO KNOWN AS: Issued also in French under title: Si je me souviens bien As I recall. WITH: John Meisel; Guy Rocher; Arthur Silver. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements; Note on Illustrations; Table of Contents; General Introduction; CHAPTER 1 THE FIRST STEPS - Arthur Silver; Introduction - by John Meisel; Introduction - by Guy Rocher; The Conquest (1760); The Rebellion of 1837-1838; The Union of the Canadas (1840); Confederation (1867); The Hanging of Louis Riel (1885); The Minority Rights Disputes (1871-1916); Imperialism and World War (1884-1917); CHAPTER 2 THE MAKING OF THE WELFARE STATE - Alain Desruisseaux and Sarah Fortin; Introduction - by John Meisel; Introduction - by Guy Rocher; Unemployment Insurance (1940); Tax Rental Agreements (1947-1954); Federal Grants to Universities (1951); Canada and Quebec… Read More

Boston: Aldine Book Publishing Co. BOOK: Repaired; Loose Hinges; Corners, Boards Bumped; Heavy Shelf Rub to Boards; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. CONTENTS: Preface; BOOK I - I Birth, Parentage, and Early Life of Columbus II Early Voyages of Columbus III Progress of Discovery under Prince Henry of Portugal IV Residence of Columbus at Lisbon V Grounds of which Columbus founded his Belief of the existence of Undiscovered Lands in the West VI Correspondence of Columbus with Paulo Toscanelli; BOOK II - I Proceedings of Columbus after leaving Portugal II Columbus at the Court of Spain III Columbus before the Council of Salamanca IV Further Applications at the Court of Castile V Columbus at the Convent of La Rabida VI Application to the Court at the time of the Surrender of Granada VII Arrangement with the Spanish Sovereigns VIII Columbus at the Port of Palos; BOOK III - I Departure of Columbus on his First Voyage II Continuation of the Voyage III Continuation of the… Read More

Toronto: Irwin Publishing Inc., 1986. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGN: Brant Cowie. CONTENTS: Preface; ONE Myself; TWO Father; THREE Brother; FOUR Friend; FIVE Myself Revisited; Appendix I The Fathers Who Begat Us; Appendix II Pre-1940 Public-School Education in Ontario. SYNOPSIS: Grace Irwin has had a career varied and independent enough to satisfy any feminist: as classicist, teacher, novelist, lecturer, play-director, amateur actress, pastor, and ordained minister; also home-maker, cook, baker, and party-giver. Here, however, her aim is to pay tribute to others, as she writes with disarming admiration and warmth in prise of three men whose lives and personalities contributed largely to her own: two John Irwins--one her farther, the other her brother, well known for his achievements in forestry and publishing--and Herbert Harold Kent, architect and pastor. She relates the… Read More