355 pp, large 8vo, hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Crammed with colour and anecdote, yet meticulously researched and fact-filled, (this book) is accessible Canadian social history that traces the magazine industry from its boisterous pre-Confederation beginnings to the vibrant and influential medium that it is today...examines the emergence of a national consciousness whose concerns became issues for the now growing number of Canadian magazines. We follow these t hrought their heyday in the Thirties and Forties to their near demise in the TV-conscious Sixties. The political, social and technological events that influenced Canada, and the hard-driving publishers, writers and editors who stamped their p u b l i c a t ions with their own vision and personal style are chronicled..." Minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped. VG+/VG+

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