Forty-six years later those words still ring true: there has since been no book that has brought to life early Calgary the way that Eye Opener Bob does. Perhaps more importantly, it's the closest we'll ever get to Robert Chambers Edwards--Eye Opener Bob --the irrepressible editor of Calgary's most singular newspaper, and the city's most singular denizen. Bob Edwards was a true Canadian original, the prototypical hard-drinking, pull-no-punches editor of the Calgary Eye Opener --at the time the largest paper between ...
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Forty-six years later those words still ring true: there has since been no book that has brought to life early Calgary the way that Eye Opener Bob does. Perhaps more importantly, it's the closest we'll ever get to Robert Chambers Edwards--Eye Opener Bob --the irrepressible editor of Calgary's most singular newspaper, and the city's most singular denizen. Bob Edwards was a true Canadian original, the prototypical hard-drinking, pull-no-punches editor of the Calgary Eye Opener --at the time the largest paper between Vancouver and Toronto, with a circulation of over 30,000 copies. A paper with the power to elect or dethrone governments, to bring the mighty CPR to reform its ways, and to skewer the pretensions of society like few before or since. Eye Opener Bob brings this fascinating character to life in all his glorious self-contradictions. MacEwan arrived in the city at just the right time to write Eye Opener Bob --the old Sandstone City hadn't yet been whitewashed over by the new money from the Leduc gusher, and there were still living people who had known Edwards. MacEwan ferreted out their stories as only he could do, combined the interviews with hard research, and the result is Grant MacEwan's best book by a country mile. Eye Opener Bob can be enjoyed on its own or as a companion piece to the new compilation of Edwards's writing, Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers, and Unabashed Grafters: A Bob Edwards Chrestomathy .
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Seller's Description:
Very Good + in First jacket. The Story of Bob Edwards. 210 pages; trade paperback; VG+. Annotated by James Martin, introduction by Will Ferguson. This is the third edition of Grant MacEwan's biography of colourful an irreverent Calgary newspaperman Bob Edwards, who "skewered corrupt politicians, deflated the pretentions of socialites, created merry havoc with invented news stories, and chronicled...his descent into the maelstrom of alcoholism." First published in 1957, Institute of Applied Art, second edition 1974, Western Producer Prairie Books, this new 2004 edition is handsomely produced.
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Good in Acceptable jacket. Signed on the title page by Grant MacEwan...this copy has a solid tight binding with clean ubnmarked pages....the dust cover has many chips and tears but is still all present.
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Good in Poor jacket. Fourth printing, 1967. Publication of 227 pages. Externally there are signs of previous ownership. The jacket and the boards are shelf rubbed, edge worn, marks, chipped and scuffed in places. On the edge of the dust cover there is a piece of the corner torn off. The first page has a crease on the bottom of the corner, of the page. There is a pen mark on one page. Underneath the boards remain in good condition. But it still presents handsomely in cellophane. There is slight tanning on the block the book. The binding is excellent. The pages are bright and attractive, and the text remains clear. GK.
