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Halifax : A Literary Portrait. First Edition.

By: BELL, John , (ed.). MacNEIL, Robert, foreword. MARRYAT, Frederick. SAUNDERS, Marshall.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pottersfield, Lawrencetown Beach, 1990, ISBN:0919001653:

Seller ID: 13363

BELL, John, (ed.). Halifax : A Literary Portrait. With a Foreword by RobertMacNeil. Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia : Pottersfield Press, (1990). Fir st Edition. Pp (6),v-viii,1-228,(2). 8vo, black cardcovers with a colour reproduction of Elizabeth Nutt's painting, "Winter, George Street, Halifax, N.S." (1935) on the front cover. John Bell (b. May 4, 1952, Montreal). "Halifax: A Literary Portrait is a lively anthology of thirty-one selected writings about this colourful Nova Scotian port city dating from the early eighteenth century to the present. Included are works by such varied...
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Voyage. 1st US in dj

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Doubleday, 1995,:

Seller ID: 13931

MacNEIL, Robert. The Voyage. (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1995). First Printing. Pp 288. 8vo, blue cloth spine. Vg in dj. 17.50
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Wordstruck : A Memoir. First Edition in dustjacket

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Viking, 1989,: 1989

Seller ID: 5081

ISBN: 0670818712

MacNEIL, Robert. Wordstruck : A Memoir. (New York, Markham, Ont., &c) : Viking, (1989). First Printing. Pp (10), 1-230. With some b&w illustrations in the text. 8vo (149 x 216 mm), brown cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine.

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, (b. January 19, 1931, Montreal).

"A winter's night in Halifax, Nova Scotia, half a century ago: a small boy, warm from his bath. dressed in striped flannel pajamas and a wool dressing gown, nestled among the cushions of a sofa, listens to his mother read aloud, '.. . keeping...
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The Right Place at The Right Time. First Edition in dustjacket

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 1982,: 1982

Seller ID: 4600

ISBN: 0316542903

MacNEIL, Robert. The Right Place at The Right Time. Boston & Toronto : Little, Brown and Company, (1982). First Edition. Pp (16),3-333,(5). 8vo (150 x 213 mm), black cloth spine & gold paper-covered bds, with gilt lettering to spine.

Robert Breckenridge Ware "Robin" MacNeil, OC (b. January 19, 1931, Montreal).

"[...] in this candid adventure-filled memoir, MacNeil reveals his rarely seen and richly varied off-camera personality as e recalls some of the highlights of his career - the blunders and the blind luck along with the scoops, the dangerous missions, the e...
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Wordstruck : A Memoir. First Edition in dustjacket, Signed

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 1989,: 1989

Seller ID: 34472

ISBN: 0670818712

Wordstruck : A Memoir. Unrevised and Unpubished Proof.

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Viking , 1989,:

Seller ID: 33238

MacNEIL, Robert. Wordstruck : A Memoir. Unrevised and Unpublished Proof. N.pl.: Viking, (1989). Pp 232. 8vo, peach cardcovers. "Although I was born inMontreal, it was in Hialilax that I learned to talk and later to read and write. So it was as a Nova Scotian that I joined the English-speaking peoples: my first English came flavoured with a saltv tang and with odd names for things, like chesterfield for sofa." - p.2 Much on Halifax and environs throughout the book, with, naturally an emphasis on his early days in broadcasting. And, happily, books and reading also predominate, e.g. this ...
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Voyage. proof

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, 1995,:

Seller ID: 45448

MacNEIL, Robert. The Voyage. NY: Nan A. Talese, (1995). Advanced Uncorrected Proof. Pp. 288. 8vo, ill. card covers. Vg. 20.00
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Breaking News. proof.

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, 1998,:

Seller ID: 40418

MacNEIL, Robert. Breaking News : A Novel. NY: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, (1998). Bound galley copy. Pp 406. 8vo, ill. card covers. Slightly rubbed, creasing to spine, front corners bumped slightly, else vg. 20.00
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Looking for My Country. in dj.

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Random House Canada, Toronto, 2002, ISBN:067931248x:

Seller ID: 60300

MacNEIL, Robert. Looking for My Country : Finding Myself in America. (Toronto): Random House Canada, (2002). Pp. 203. 8vo, blue cloth spine with blue paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. Memoirs of the American journalist who grew up in war-time Halifax. Vg in dj. 20.00
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Voyage. 1st US in dj. signed

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: 1995,:

Seller ID: 26880

MacNEIL, Robert. The Voyage. (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1995). First Printing. Pp 288. 8vo, blue cloth spine. Vg-fine in dj. Inscribed by MacNeil. 20.00
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Wordstruck : A Memoir. Second Printing in dustjacket

By: MacNEIL, Robert

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Viking, 1989,: 1989

Seller ID: 5082

ISBN: 0670818712

MacNEIL, Robert. Wordstruck : A Memoir. (New York, Markham, Ont., &c) : Viking, (1989). Second Printing. Pp (10), 1-230. Illustrations in the text. 8vo (148 x 215 mm), brown cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine.

Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, (b. January 19, 1931, Montreal).

"A winter's night in Halifax, Nova Scotia, half a century ago: a small boy, warm from his bath. dressed in striped flannel pajamas and a wool dressing gown, nestled among the cushions of a sofa, listens to his mother read aloud, ".. . keeping nothing back...
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Burden of Desire. 1st US in dj. signed

By: MacNEIL, Robert LISMER, Arthur, (dj art)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: 1992,:

Seller ID: 40866

MacNEIL, Robert. Burden of Desire. N.Y. & Tor.: Doubleday, (March 1992). First Edition. Pp (12), [3]-466, (4). 8vo, blue cloth spine with blue paper-covered boards. MacNeil's first novel, set in Halifax, at the time of the Halifax Explosion. Vg in dj. With signed inscription from author. 25.00
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Burden of Desire. First Edition in dustjacket,

By: MacNEIL, Robert LISMER, Arthur, (dj art)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Doubleday, 1992, ISBN:0385420196:

Seller ID: 2854

MacNEIL, Robert. Burden of Desire. New York, London, Toronto, etc. : Nan A.Talese, Doubleday, (March 1992). First Edition Stated. Pp. (12), [3]-466, (4). 8vo, blue cloth spine with blue paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to spine. With map end-papers. MacNeil's first novel, set in Halifax, at thetime of the Halifax Explosion. "In his first novel, Robert MacNeil, the di stinguished co-anchor of PBS's 'MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour," author of Wordstruck and co-author of The Story of English, reopens the wounds of history to trace three lives caught in the whirlwind of World War I. "Th...
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Burden of Desire. First Edition, Uncorrected Proof

By: MacNEIL, Robert.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, New York, 1992, ISBN:0385420196:

Seller ID: 113399

MacNEIL, Robert. Burden of Desire. New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, (March 1992). First Edition. Uncorrected Proof. Pp. (12), [3]-466, (4). 8vo, white cardcovers. MacNeil's first novel, set in Halifax, at the time of the Halifax Explosion. With printed label on front cover : "Published by Doubleday Canada / Publication Date: March 7, 1992 / Price $28.00" which is affixed over text for the American release: "Tentative Publication: June 1992 / Price $22.50". In his first novel, Robert MacNeil, the distinguished co-anchor of PBS's 'MacNeil / Lehrer NewsHour," author of Wor...
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Burden of Desire. First Dell Paperback Printing

By: MacNEIL, Robert.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Dell Publishing, New York, 1993, ISBN:0440215099: 1993

Seller ID: 113444

ISBN: 0440215099

MacNEIL, Robert. Burden of Desire. (New York) : A Dell Book, (April 1993). First Printing. Pp. (12), [3]-559, (7). With 2-page map spread of the Halifax peninsula. 12mo, art-illustrated cardcovers.

The first mass market issue of MacNeil's first novel, set in Halifax, at the time of the Halifax Explosion. It boasts an almost bodice-ripper style cover by an un-credited artist with the Julia Robertson character in a long chaste cloak on the front.

"Set against a vivid backdrop of a world at war Burden of Desire opens with a cataclysmic explosion that provides the nov...
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Burden of Desire. First Edition, Paperback

By: MacNEIL, Robert. LISMER, Arthur, (dj art).

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, New York, 1992, ISBN:0385420196:

Seller ID: 113407

MacNEIL, Robert. Burden of Desire. New York : Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, (1992). First Edition. Pp. (12), [3]-466, (4). 8vo, cardcovers, with Lismer cover art on frnt, b&w photo of MacNeil on rear. MacNeil's first novel, set in Halifax, at the time of the Halifax Explosion. A peculiar version with nocover price and the same ISBN as the First Edition hardcover. Very good. 1 5.00
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Burden of Desire. Harcourt Paperback

By: MacNEIL, Robert. LISMER, Arthur, (dj art).

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, Doubleday, New York, 1992, ISBN:9780156006095:

Seller ID: 113408

MacNEIL, Robert. Burden of Desire. Orlando, &c : A Harvest Book, Harcourt Inc., (1998). First Harvest Edition. Pp. (12), [3]-466, (4). 8vo, yellow art-illustrated cardcovers. MacNeil's first novel, set in Halifax, at the timeof the Halifax Explosion. "The citizens of Halifax, Nova Scotia, are intro duced first-hand to the horror of the war on December 6, 1917, when a freighter carrying TNT explodes in the harbor, leveling the entire north end of the city. In the wake of the disaster, as survivors sort through the rubbleand tend to the dead and wounded a young clergyman finds a woman's diar...
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Portrait of Julia. A novel. First Edition in dustjacket.

By: MacNEIL, Robert. MORRICE, J.W.).

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 2013, ISBN:9781459502796:

Seller ID: 112172

MacNEIL, Robert. Portrait of Julia. A novel. (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada): Formac Publishing Company Limited, (2013). First Printing. Pp (6),[7]-347,(5). 8vo (160 x 236 mm), tan cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine.

Jacket design based on artwork by James Wilson Morrice.

Robert Breckenridge Ware "Robin" MacNeil, OC (b. January 19, 1931, Montreal).

"In 'Portrait of Julia', Robert MacNeil returns to a character who first appeared in 'Burden of Desire'. It is 1920, and Julia Robertson is a beautiful young war widow, aware of radical new ...
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