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Calgary: The Albertan, 1975. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: None, As Issued. With 21 illustrations. SUB-TITLE: "Memoirs of a western newspaperman". CONTENTS: PART ONE Prologue - "This man is dead"; Chapter One - Printers' Ink in my veins?; Chapter Two - The Youngest Rebel; Chapter Three - Calgary's War Time Riots; Chapter Four - Death On The Prairie; Chapter Five - Politicians Play Rough; Chapter Six - Bob Edwards, "Cappy" Smart, and "Peach" Davis; Chapter Seven - Murder in the Pass; Chapter Eight - Weadick, Dempsey and Gibbons; Chapter Nine - More Blood and Royalty; Chapter Ten - The Death of Barra Lad; Chapter Eleven - Albert Cowboys Ride East; Chapter Twelve - Gold on the Rodeo Trail; Chapter Thirteen - I Meet 'Scar-Face' Al Capone; Chapter Fourteen - Johnny Longden - Rags to Riches; Chapter Fifteen - Horse Racing Interlude; Chapter… Read More

Clarke, Irwin & Company Limited, 1974. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Missing. CONTENTS: Prologue; The House; The Family; The Farm; War; Peace; Disintegration; Recuperation; Europe; England Again; New York; Washington, D.C.; Canada; Montreal; Winnipeg; War Again; Broadcasting; Ottawa; The Levant; India; Women and the Law; European Assignments; Initial Stages of the RCSW; The Hearings; The Report; Public Reaction; Implementation; Index.. Review Copy; First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Markham: Cortland Design, 1998. Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription Neatly Inked to Top Right Corner of Front Matter); Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. ALSO KNOWN AS: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS These stories have been published previously by Metroland Printing, Publishing & Distribution Ltd in The Liberal in Richmond Hill and The Era-Banner in Newmarket/Aurora. They are reprinted with their permission. I owe special thanks to Debora Kelly, editor of The Liberal, who gave me the opportunity and incentive to write down stories I've been telling all my life.--Rita Torpey Butt. CONTENTS: Children's Books; Supervised From Above; Are The New Grocery Stores For Giants?; To Comfort A Child; Fainting Dead Away; The Skater's Waltz; York Region Fairyland; Midnight Angel; Be Bothered; My Face Is My Fortune; Family Skis; Rocking And Singing; Good Morning Bank Machine #3; Love Me--Love My Dog; Don't Give Me Special Treatment; Frequent Renovations Gave Everyone A… Read More

Don Mills: Collins Publishers, 1988. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Memoirs of a Lucky Man. JACKET DESIGN: Scott Richardson. CONTENTS: 1 Teentime 2 The Genius Who Lived Next Door 3 Newspaper days 4 My Life as a Hack 5 Nights at the Colonial 6 Snow and Town, Art and Eros 7 Beland and Nathan and Me 8 The Boys at Maclean's 9 The Age of McLuhan 10 Mythology, Politics and Atwood 11 Turning the Corner 12 Meeting Citizen Black; Acknowledgements; Index. SYNOPSIS: For three decades, Robert Fulford has watched the flowering of the arts in Canada from an ideal vantage point, the best seat in the house. He grew up next door to Glenn Gould, befriended Michael Snow when Fulford and Snow were both teenagers, and eventually worked alongside Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski,… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan Canada A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation, 1995. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Gift Inscription From 1996 Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. By the author of The Glitter Girls. Sixteen pages of Photographs included. BACK COVER: Edgar and Rosemary Sexton arriving at the Art Gallery of Ontario for the Barnes Foundation Exhibit, September 1994. AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH ON BACK COVER: Bryce Duffy. JACKET DESIGN: Concrete Design Communications Inc. CONTENTS: PART ONE: SOCIAL COLUMNIST AT LARGE - PROLOGUE How I Got Started at The Globe and Mail; CHAPTER ONE A Day in the Life of a Society Columnist; CHAPTER TWO Highs and Lows of a Society Columnist--Columns; CHAPTER THREE Dear Rosemary; CHAPTER FOUR Diary of a Social Columnist (1991 to 1993); PART TWO: THE GLOBE AND MAIL YEARS - CHAPTER FIVE Fear and Loathing at The Globe and Mail; CHAPTER… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan Canada A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation, 1995. BOOK: Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front, Rear Fixed Endpapers Pulled From Removal of Jacket Cover; Front Free Endpaper Pulled From Removal of Pocket, Sticker; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. By the author of The Glitter Girls. Sixteen pages of Photographs included. BACK COVER: Edgar and Rosemary Sexton arriving at the Art Gallery of Ontario for the Barnes Foundation Exhibit, September 1994. AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPH ON BACK COVER: Bryce Duffy. JACKET DESIGN: Concrete Design Communications Inc. CONTENTS: PART ONE: SOCIAL COLUMNIST AT LARGE - PROLOGUE How I Got Started at The Globe and Mail; CHAPTER ONE A Day in the Life of a Society Columnist; CHAPTER TWO Highs and Lows of a Society Columnist--Columns; CHAPTER THREE Dear Rosemary; CHAPTER FOUR Diary of a Social Columnist (1991 to 1993); PART TWO: THE GLOBE… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Life...And Then Some. DESIGN BY: Don Fernley. COVER DRAWING USED BY: Permission of the David Annesley Estate. PHOTO: John Leung. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements 1 How Did He Get That Way? 2 Growing Up 3 Star Days 4 Footloose Reporter 5 "The Bird You Think I Am" 6 Aimee 7 The Time He Was Really Fired 8 Sinclair...a Sports-Writer? 9 So How Were Things at Home? 10 "I Told Them I Couldn't Do News" 11 On the Road Again 12 Attacking the Stuffed Shirts 13 The Last Real Shooting Star 14 "Yes, My Age Bothers Me" 15 the Other Side of the Mountain 16 The Last Three Years 17 The End; Index. SYNOPSIS: Gordon Sinclair was a journalist and broadcaster known to three… Read More

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada A Division of Canada Publishing Corporation BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Light Moisture Damage to Front, Rear Boards (Spills, Glass Rings); Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: A Life...And Then Some. DESIGN BY: Don Fernley. COVER DRAWING USED BY: Permission of the David Annesley Estate. PHOTO: John Leung. CONTENTS: Acknowledgements 1 How Did He Get That Way? 2 Growing Up 3 Star Days 4 Footloose Reporter 5 "The Bird You Think I Am" 6 Aimee 7 The Time He Was Really Fired 8 Sinclair...a Sports-Writer? 9 So How Were Things at Home? 10 "I Told Them I Couldn't Do News" 11 On the Road Again 12 Attacking the Stuffed Shirts 13 The Last Real Shooting Star 14 "Yes, My Age Bothers Me" 15 the Other Side of the Mountain 16 The Last Three Years 17 The End;… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1985. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: The Trenchcoat Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent. BOOK NUMBER: 6701-1. COVER PHOTOGRAPH: Peter Croydon. CONTENTS: Preface; Prologue 1 Writing for the Kansas City Milkman 2 Correspondent in Waiting 3 The Washington Beat 4 The Freelance Life 5 The New Frontier 6 One Minute to Midnight 7 Hello Lyndon 8 Vietnam 9 That Slum of a Year 10 Back Home Again; Index. SYNOPSIS: For close to thirty years Knowlton Nash has been "the news" for Canadians--that knowledgeable, believable, and articulate correspondent, and more recently, anchorman, who keeps us informed and up-to-date with happenings at home and abroad. Here at last is Nash's candid and highly personal reminiscence of the remarkable globe-trotting career that has spanned continents, seen him at the centre of the major news stories of our lifetimes, and taken… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Moderate Moisture Damage (Staining); Heavy Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. 16 Pages of Photographs. An Autobiography by the Author of Final Verdict and Tell No Man. BOOK NUMBER: 2148. JACKET BY: Paul Bacon. SYNOPSIS: At eighteen I must have been regarded as a woman, writes the author in this colorful memoir, for I was one of the first women reporters, maybe as an all-around police beat, sports, sin and society reporter the first in the world. Taking up her life where Final Verdict, her biography of her father, left off, The Honeycomb traces Mrs. St. Johns' fifty years as a newspaper woman during which, as a star reporter and feature writer for the Hearst papers--under the over-all supervision of William Randolph Hearst--she covered… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons BOOK: Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. BOOK NUMBER: 9011. FRONT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH BY: Lester Lefkowitz. JACKET DESIGN: Mike Stromberg. CONTENTS: Foreword 1. Wanderlust 2. Radio Days 3. The Greenhorn Kid 4. Globe-Trotting 5. The Runaway Cruise Ship 6. Lieutenant Son 7. Rio 8. Equator Crossings 9. Hollywood 10. Ninety Degrees North 11. Boxes on Wheels 12. On the Road 13. Izzy and Larry and Charlie and Me 14. Celebrity 15. Luck 16. Down by the Riverside 17. Mr. Black 18. Flight 19. Aluminum Tubes with Wings 20. Perils 21. Animal Tales 22. What They Say 23. Brushes with the Famous 24. The Dentist 25. Regrets. 26. A Place to Come Home to. SYNOPSIS: "I come from wandering tribes," writes Charles Kuralt. "I always wondered where the roads went." He has spent a lifetime satisfying that… Read More

London: Pan Books Ltd, 1991. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SUB-TITLE: Memoirs. SYNOPSIS: He edited the Sunday Express for a record-breaking three decades. He has met and influenced nearly every major figure in public life--from Her Majesty the Queen to the Princess of Wales, from Harold Macmillan to Margaret Thatcher. Sir John Junor is a Fleet Street legend. Listening for a Midnight Tram is the long-awaited story of his life--as uncompromising and controversial as the man himself. John Junor was born in Shannon Street, Glasgow, in 1919. Before the war he read English at Glasgow University, where he was also President of the University Liberal Club. During the war he served first in armed merchant cruisers in the Royal Navy and then as a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, founding and editing the Air Arm's magazine Flight Deck. In 1947 he joined Beaverbrook Newspapers, rising to become the Assistant Editor of… Read More

Toronto: Macfarlane Walter & Ross BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction 1. Steak Out 2. Grand Hotel (Diversions: The Last Picture Show) 3. Separate Tables (Diversions: Salad Days) 4. Ethnicities (Diversions: Love in Idleness) 5. Calitalia (Diversions: The Call of the Wild) 6. Canadiana (Diversions: Pacific Overtures) 7. La Boheme (Diversions: On the Road Again) 8. Cocooning (Diversions: The Young Idea) 9. The F Word (Diversions: The Rules of the Game) 10. French Without Tears (Diversions: Silvarado) 11. Relative Values; Index. SYNOPSIS: One summer night in 1977, an English actor named James Chatto ate his first meal in Toronto and met the love of his life. Some years later, when he and his wife returned to Canada to raise a family, he decided to parlay his appetite into… Read More

New York: Scribner BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: In A Mighty Heart, an astonishingly courageous woman tells the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband's life and death. For five weeks the world watched and worried about Danny Pearl, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan. And then came the news of his shocking and brutal murder. Danny's reasons for being in Karachi, the complete story of his abduction, and the intense effort to find him are told here for the first time. Mariane and Danny Pearl were working in South Asia, as they had been elsewhere in the world, because they believed that good reporting is essential to our understanding of ethnic and religious conflict around the globe. They knew the risks inherent in the life they chose and took conscientious precautions. The courage of Danny and Mariane is extraordinary, yet we are dependent on brave… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons This item cannot be shipped to any delivery address located in the state of California. BOOK: Signed by Author on Front Free Endpaper (In Black Marker); Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Linda Ellerbee, author of "AND SO IT GOES". BOOK NUMBER: 9105. FRONT JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: John Goodman. JACKET DESIGN BY: Ann Spinelli. SYNOPSIS: Brimming with incisive opinion and marvelous storytelling, here is the long-awaited new book from television's most outspoken journalist. Linda Ellerbee's "And So It Goes": Adventures in Television became an instant classic--a sharp, funny, unblinking look at television journalism written in the literate, lean, wry style that is her hallmark. Her adventures in television, however, pale in comparison with her adventures in the real world, and with… Read More

New York: Avon Books A division of The Hearst Corporation, 1991. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; First Page of Front Matter Missing; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Pulled From Removal of Stickers; Slightly Sticky Residue to Front, Rear Covers From Removal of Tape; Reverse of Front Cover Pulled From Removal of Pocket; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Moderately Cocked; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age. THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER. INCLUDES NEW, UP-TO-THE-MINUTE MATERIAL. THREE MONTHS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST. SUB-TITLE: The Extraordinary Life and Controversial Views of the Soviet Union's Leading Commentator. INTRODUCTION BY: Brian Kahn. COVER PHOTOGRAPH BY: Sven Arnstein. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Introduction by Brian Kahn; One: My America; Two: In Limbo; Three: Father of the People; Four: A Coach to England; Five: Of Pine Trees and Telegraph Poles; Six: The Dragon, the Lizards, and the Time of the Toad; Seven:… Read More

New York: A Borzoi Book - Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1996. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. With 36 photographs. SYNOPSIS: From the age of six, when he went dashing down a hill to spread the news of President Harding' death through his Kansas City neighborhood, Walter Cronkite's vocation was unmistakable. Three years later, when he started peddling the Kansas City Star, the die was truly cast: "My mother was horrified and frightened, as I suppose many mothers have been, or should have been, when their children got into newspapering." The next year the Cronkite family moved to Houston, and other boyhood activities intervened; but when shin splints kept him off the high school track team he landed the job of sports editor for the Campus Club and discovered the "sacred covenant between newspaper people and their readers. We journalists… Read More

New York: Penguin Books Published by the Penguin Group Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc., 1990. Light Sticker Reside to Front Cover; Spine Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. Robert MacNeil, Author of Wordstruck and co-author of The Story of English. COVER PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF: The Author. COVER DESIGN BY: Melissa Jacoby. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1/The Reluctant Reporter; 2/White Christmas; 3/Early Days in London; 4/Britain: Political Education; 5/Tangier; 6/The Congo; 7/France; 8/The Berlin Wall; 9/Stories from Britain; 10/Finland: More Adventures in the Cold War; 11/A Guest of Fidel Castro; 12/The Long, Hot Summer of 1963; 13/Did I Really Meet Lee Harvey Oswald?; 14/Travels with Barry and Lyndon; 15/Vietnam Metaphors; 16/Adventures in Fairness with Richard Nixon; 17/The MacNeil/Lehrer Report; 18/The Queen at the White House. SYNOPSIS: There is no one better suited to provide an inside look at television journalism than Robert MacNeil,… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown and Company BOOK: Previous Owner Markings (Name Neatly Inked to Front Free Endpaper); Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Scuffed; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. DESIGNED BY: Janis Capone. PHOTO CREDIT: Don Perdue. JACKET DESIGN BY: Peter deAngeli. CONTENTS: Introduction 1/The Reluctant Reporter 2/White Christmas 3/Early Days in London 4/Britain: Political Education 5/Tangier 6/The Congo 7/France 8/The Berlin Wall 9/Stories from Britain 10/Finland: More Adventures in the Cold War 11/A Guest of Fidel Castro 12/The Long, Hot Summer of 1963 13/Did I Really Meet Lee Harvey Oswald? 14/Travels with Barry and Lyndon 15/Vietnam Metaphors 16/Adventures in Fairness with Richard Nixon 17/The MacNeil/Lehrer Report 18/The Queen at the White House. SYNOPSIS: Robert MacNeil is known and admired by millions of television viewers for his accuracy, determination, and intelligence as one-half of The… Read More

New York: Warner Books A Time Warner Company, 1999. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Soiled; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. Witness to History. New York Times Bestselling Author of The City of Joy and Coauthor of Is Paris Burning? "There are always a thousand suns beyond the clouds."--Indian proverb. BOOK NUMBER: 0399. ALSO KNOWN AS: Originally published in French as Mille Soleils by Editions Robert Laffont. BOOK DESIGN BY: Giorgetta Bell McRee. BACK COVER PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF: the author's collection. JACKET DESIGN BY: Flag & Jackie Merri Meyer. CONTENTS: Author's Note to the Reader 1 The Grandiose and Mad Dream of a Twentieth-Century Don Quixote 2 A Small Piece of Paradise under a Parasol Pine 3 A Green Room on the Shores of the Pacific 4 Two Young Hounds on the Trail of History 5 A Dance of Death with the Black Bulls of Spain 6 The Modest Man Who Saved Israel 7… Read More