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Toronto, ON: Mcclelland and Stewart. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771089856 . Top corner bumped, price clipped DJ has faded spine, lightly scuffed. Previous owner's name on FFEP ; DJ in Mylar A tight solid book. ; 415 pages; Wiebe's fourth novel is a moving epic of the tumultuous history of the Canadian West. From the early days of North America, European settlers forced Natives aside, taking over their land on which they had lived for thousands of years. Big Bear envisioned a Northwest in which all peoples lived together peaceably, and in the 1880s made history by standing his ground to keep his Plains Cree nation from being forced onto reserves. The buffalo food supply was vanishing, but Big Bear led his people across the prairie, resisting pressure to cede rights to the land and give up freedom in exchange for temporary nourishment. The struggle brought starvation to his followers, tearing apart the community and eventually his own family.…
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- Title The temptations of Big Bear
- Author Rudy Henry Wiebe
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 415
- Language ENG
- Publisher McClelland and Stewart, Toronto
- Date 1973
- ISBN 9780771089855
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McClelland & Stewart, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 415 p. 22 cm. Brown cloth in dustjacket. Jacket has rough edges, some rubbing, faded spine, clipped front flap. Small label on front free endpaper. Some soiling to text block edge.
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart [0-7710-8985-6] 1973, 1st edition. (Cloth) 415pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Endpaper maps. Minimal edgewear to jacket..
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart [0-7710-8985-6] 1973, 1st edition. (Hardcover) 415pp. Very good in near fine dust jacket. Map endpapers. The top margins of pp. 368-381 are stained. Book about Big Bear. (Fiction, Canadian, Plains Cree Indians).
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1973. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Price clipped. Signed by author. DJ in plastic cover. 415 p. Endpaper map. From Wikipedia: "Rudy Henry Wiebe, OC (born 4 October 1934) is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992....was born at Speedwell, near Fairholme, Saskatchewan in what would later become his family s chicken barn. For thirteen years he lived in an isolated community of about 250 people, as part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian west. He did not speak English until age six since Mennonites at that time customarily spoke Low German at home and standard German at Church. He attended the small school three miles from his farm and the Speedwell Mennonite Brethren Church. He received his B.A. in 1956 from the University of Alberta and then studied under a Rotary International Fellowship at the…
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Temptations of Big Bear: A Novel
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1973. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Harry Hallpike (DJ Illustration). Novel is Big Bear's story, "What can that mean, I and My family will have a' reserve of one square mile'?" 415 pp. Brown cloth covered boards have gilt text on spine, decorative ep's show The Canadian West - 1876 (F) Canadian West - 1888 (R). Top corners bumped, ow Fine. Unclipped ($ 8.95) DJ has top edge wear particlarly at head of spine, top corners bumped. Book is from the collection of Toronto author/poet Greg Gatenby. Date of the book's acquisition and Mr. Gatenby's signature are found top corner ffep. SIGNED thus, " Peace Rudy Wiebe". SIGNED by AUTHOR Bookseller's Inventory # 122936.
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