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Adventures of a Columnist by Berton, Pierre; Photographed by Henri Rossier - 1960

by Berton, Pierre; Photographed by Henri Rossier

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Adventures of a Columnist

by Berton, Pierre; Photographed by Henri Rossier

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1960. Hardcover with dust jacket, 211 pages, black-and-white illustrations; book has just a hint of cover edge rubbing, ink signature on free front endpaper, but tight in binding, otherwise very clean and unmarked; DJ is intact, but chipped at edges and the top quarter of the front panel is missing. See also our listing for Berton's extremely scarce The New City: A Prejudiced View of Toronto, and this, just in, Frederick Griffin's exceedingly scarce Variety Show: Twenty Years of Watching the News . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/Fair.
  • Bookseller Eric James CA (CA)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very Good +
  • Jacket Condition Fair
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher McClelland & Stewart
  • Place of Publication Toronto
  • Date Published 1960
  • Keywords HISTORY POPULAR CULTURE SOCIAL CANADIAN REPORTAGE JOURNALISM

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Adventures of a Columnist

Adventures of a Columnist

by Pierre Berton

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McClelland & Stewart, 1967. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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by Berton, Pierre

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McClelland & Stewart. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. Good+/Good+. Chip on DJ spine top, bookplate on f. L. E. P. ; pencil name on dedication page.
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by Berton, Pierre

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Canadian Best-Seller Library #29, 1967. A very good plus paperback with black and white illustrations. 1967, first printing.. 1st Printing. Ver y Good Plus.
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by Berton, Pierre

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Toronto: Maclelland and Stewart, 1960. Hardcover, 1st edition. Grey and white covers. Very minor shelfwear otherwise a fine clean sturdy copy. Dust jacket presents some wear along edges, but generally good. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.
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ADVENTURES OF A COLUMNIST

by Berton, Pierre

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. We believe this to be a first printing, but there is no price on the dj flap. Cloth. 211pp. Illus. Ink name/date on ffep. Fine in dj with some edge tears. Great essays by the eminent Canadian author.
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Adventures of a Columnist

by Pierre Berton

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McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1960, Near Fine Hardcover / Very Good Dustjacket, 211 pages, 6" x 9", gift inscription on ffep, edgewear on dustjacket, otherwise clean and tight. Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, (1920 – 2004) was a Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster.
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by Berton, Pierre

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McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1960, first edition. 211 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "Pierre Berton takes us behind the scenes for a look at this business of writing a daily newspaper column. It's a highly personalized account, to be sure, but one that is well calculated to entertain almost any reader. Included along with the author's personal comments is a varied selection of many of the best columns he has written over a two-year period. None of them has appeared before in book form." Very small light mark on page 121, tiny chip at bottom edge of free rear endpaper, slight darkening to top of textblock, very light edge wear. Dust jacket has several small closed tears - one with creases, light edge wear/wrinkling wear at top of spine and flap- folds has been colored with black ink, tiny chips at top of spine and top/bottom of flap-folds, light rubbing, minor soiling. Very Good/Very Good-.
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McClelland & Stewart, 1960. Hardcover. Good/fair.
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Adventures of a Columnist

by Pierre Berton

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Toronto, : McClelland and Stewart,, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Frank Newfeld . Orange DJ is not clipped, but has quite a few closed tears and general wear.(Spadoni notes 3 different color jackets no indication of priority), Table of Contents reads as follows : PROLOGUE : Conversation with a columnist,Twelve hundred words a day,The Hard Sell,The Twentieth Century,A Tourist in Moscow,Tintypes,Some unsociable Social Comment,True Lies,The Dear Dead Days Beyond Recall, EPILOGUE : The Best Known Columnist of His Day. "In this new book Pierre Berton takes us behind the scenes for a look at this business of writing a daily newspaper column." " Fine black cloth. A clean, unmarked copy!
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1960. Charcoal boards with a decorative stripe in light grey 1" down from the top edge and about 1 1/4 "wide.The authors signiture in red on the srtipe and the titles in red and light grey to the spine.The d.j. shows light shelf wear and there is slight creasing to the back top and bottom 1/4 ".A near fine clean book allround.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Illustrated with B/W Photographs. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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