Klondike: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
by Berton, Pierre
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart Limited. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1960. Hardcover; Sixth Printing. Brown cloth binding rubbed at spine ends & corners; boards bumped at corner tips; backstrip sun-faded; gift inscription inked on front free endpaper; leaf edges foxed, else a tight & clean signed copy. No dj. ; Front free endpaper inscribed & signed by author. ; 8vo; 457 pages; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
Pierre Berton, Canada's most widely read historian, was born in the Yukon and educated at UBC. Author of forty-seven books, he has received three Governor General's awards for nonfiction, two Nellies for broadcasting, two National Newspaper awards, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the National History Society's first award for "distinguished achievement in popularizing Canadian history." He holds eleven honorary degrees, is a member of the Newsman's Hall of Fame, and is a Companion of the Order of Canada.
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46464
- Title
- Klondike: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush
- Author
- Berton, Pierre
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; Sixth Printing
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mcclelland & Stewart Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Alaska History, Alaska Ancestry, Signed by Pierre Berton
- Bookseller catalogs
- US History, Regional: West;
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