Author: Berton, Pierre.

BARBED LYRES: CANADIAN VENOMOUS VERSE.

By: Atwood, Margaret, foreword. (Tom Denholm, Glen Stone, Denis Woollings, Brian Davis, Gerry MacIntosh, Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Hoard Engel, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Robert Priest, al Purdy, Charles Pachter, Mavor Moore, Don Harron, et al.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter : 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30244

ISBN-13: 9781550132526

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

112 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w illustrations by political cartoonist Aislin. "(W)inning entries and special celebrity submissions from a nationwide contest for satircal verse (judged by) author Margaret Atwood, columnist Allan Fotheringham and songwriter Nancy White. Over 100 of the best entries are featured. Also included are poems submitted by invitation from: Pierre Berton, Robertson Davies, Howard Engel, Don Harron, Tomson Highway, Dennis Lee, Mavor Moore, Susan Musgrave, Eric Nichol, Charles Pachter, Robert Priest, Al Purdy, Erika Ritter, Robin Skelton, et al." A 1/2" dia raised area under the ...
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ADVENTURES OF A COLUMNIST.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1960, first edition.

Seller ID: 19683

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...
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FAST FAST FAST RELIEF.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 30620

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

185 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w cartoons. "This is Berton at his best: witty, opinionated, penetrating, and informative - the qualities that have made him Canada's best known and most widely read daily columnist." Chapter headings: All My Own Work; Five Dilemmas of Our Time; The Canadian Way of Life; The Writing Game: 1 - Craft Talks for Pen Clubs; The Writing Game: 2 - The School of Hard Knocks; The Writing Game: 3 - Four Colleagues (Hal Straight / W.O. Mitchell / Thomas P. Kelley / Lister Sinclair); Seasonal Reflections of a Country Dweller; Dreams and Daydreams. Very light browning to edges of endp...
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MARCHING AS TO WAR: CANADA'S TURBULENT YEARS, 1899-1953.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Doubleday Canada : 2001

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22478

ISBN-13: 9780385257251

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

632 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). Pictorial endpapers, b&w maps. "The first war of the century, which took Canadian soldiers to South Africa, and the last, which sent them to Korea, bracket the tumultuous years of the (20th) century's first half like bookends on the shelf of history. They have a good deal in common, these two minor conflicts, whose chronicles pale when compared to the bloodbaths of the two world wars. Canada's wartime days are long past, and for many, the scars of war have healed. Vimy has been manicured clean, its pockmarked slopes softened by a green mantle of Canadian pines. Di...
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THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart : 1980

Edition: Limited First Edition, Specially Bound.

Seller ID: 30458

ISBN-13: 9780771012358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

363 pp, 9 3/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, maps/battle plans. Blue (faux?) leather spine with gilt lettering & decoration, gray boards with blue decoration on front board. "This first edition copy - is one of a limited number (unspecified) which have been specially bound and slipcased" from the copyright page. " To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed the best way to bloody John Bull's nose. It would, as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted, be 'a mere matter of marching'. How could a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campai...
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VIMY.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland and Stewart : 1986

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 22700

ISBN-13: 9780771013393

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

336 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Pictorial endpapers, b&w maps. "On a chill Easter Monday in 1917, with a blizzard blowing in their faces, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in France did what neither the British nor the French armies had been able to do in more than two years of fighting. They seized and held the best-defended German bastion on the Western Front - a muddy scarp known as the Vimy Ridge. The French, who had lost 150,000 men trying to take the ridge, didn't believe it could be done. Nor did the Germans; even the British were skeptical. But the Canadians triumphed. They...
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CAMP VERNON: A CENTURY OF CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY.

By: Rayment, Hugh & Sherlock, Patrick. Foreword By Pierre Berton.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Vernon, B.C., Kettle Valley : 2003

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29970

ISBN-13: 9780968791714

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

524 pp, 10 1/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. Camp Vernon officially celebrated "its Centennial as an army training camp in 2008. However, historical records indicate that discussions for its formation and actual military training activities began as early as 1896. This is a book of historical events and the personal stories of people training for war. You will find these men and women to be ordinary people, foot soldiers, who lived, trained and fought and, often died for freedoms we enjoy today. Open the door to an exciting part of Canadian Military History, a journey that will take ...
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Author: Berton, Pierre.

BARBED LYRES: CANADIAN VENOMOUS VERSE.

ADVENTURES OF A COLUMNIST.

FAST FAST FAST RELIEF.

MARCHING AS TO WAR: CANADA'S TURBULENT YEARS, 1899-1953.

THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813.

VIMY.

CAMP VERNON: A CENTURY OF CANADIAN MILITARY HISTORY.