The Great Railway: The National Dream (1871-1881) and The Last Spike (1881-1885)

A near fine set. The two olive green simulated leather volumes and matching slipcase are clean, with two small spots of rubbing on the spine of The Last Spike. The pages are unmarked throughout. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1977 printings of Pierre Berton’s two volume history of the Canadian Pacific Railway: The National Dream, 439 pages and The Last Spike, 478 pages, housed in the publisher’s matching slipcase. Bound in olive green simulated leather, with illustrated endpapers showing the railway’s builders and the figures who shaped it. The Last Spike won the Governor General’s Award for English-language non-fiction, and the books inspired the 1974 CBC series The National Dream. Printed and bound in Canada.