Howard Ohagan (57 results)

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths. This richly populated novel vividly depicts the exotic and rootless people who wound their way to the Canadian Northwest. It is a powerful modern legend that ranges over all aspects of the human heart and mind, incorporating passion and hatred, tragedy and triumph. From the Paperback edition.…

Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition and has highlighting/writing on text. Used texts may not contain supplemental items such as CDs, info-trac etc.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: New. Paperback. Publisher overstock, may contain remainder mark on edge.

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Condition: Very Good. The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths. This richly populated novel vividly depicts the exotic and rootless people who wound their way to the Canadian Northwest. It is a powerful modern legend that ranges over all aspects of the human heart and mind, incorporating passion and hatred, tragedy and triumph.…

Condition: Good. The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths. This richly populated novel vividly depicts the exotic and rootless people who wound their way to the Canadian Northwest. It is a powerful modern legend that ranges over all aspects of the human heart and mind, incorporating passion and hatred, tragedy and triumph.…

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. New Canadian Library N 105. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear/fade. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear with creases and tanning. Presented with protective clear book jacket cover.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Edgeworn, with creasing, bumping, and tearing at corners. Copyright 1960, 1974 by Howard O'Hagan; Afterword copyright 1989 by Michael Ondaatje.

Light blue cloth. Condition: Very Good. Introduction by Harvey Fergusson. Novel of the Canadian wilderness, set in the Rockies in the 1880s, about a half-mythical figure. Sticker residue on fep, light wear & tear to jacket. Dust Jacket condition very good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Former library copy, with stamp on first leaf; some edgewear. Afterword by Michael Ondaatje. Copyright 1960, 1074 by Howard O'Hagan; Afterword copyright 1989 by Michael Ondaatje. First New Canadian Library edition 1989; This New Canadian Library edition 2008.

Condition: Fair. 1958. First Edition. 263 pages. No dust jacket. Grey pictorial cloth. Upper text block edge blue. Pages have deckled edges. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Binding is firm. Prices in pencil to front pastedown. Bookseller's sticker to rear pastedown. Liquid stains to upper text block edge. Foxing and tanning more noticeable towards start and end of book and on text block edges. Boards have some edge wear, with slight bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are moderately crushed and rubbed. Slightly scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Ink spots to front; brown stains to spine,rear. Spine is noticeably sunned. Boards are slightly bowed. Book has a moderate forward lean.…

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Tay John. Book.

Condition: New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine.

Soft cover. Condition: FAIR, Reading Copy. ADVENTURE Men Magazine Volume 128, #2; (August /1954; Popular Magazine Pub.;) Front Cover Painting by Walter Baumhofer Writers: Walt Sheldon; William Holder; George P. Morrill; Talmage Powell; Steve Frazee; Phil Bath; Lloyd Mallan; C. A. V. Graham; Si. Podolin; Franklin Metzner; Howard O'Hagan; Wilson B. Key Jr; Herbert Asbury; Bob Gumpertz; Interior Artists: Alan Kelly; Anton Otto Fischer; Jack Hearne; Herb Mott; Robert Doares; Elliot Means; Matt Greene; 84 pages including covers; *** Book Order # ADV077; Condition= FA = (1.0) FAIR; (Heavily Used / VERY LOW GRADE and WORN Reading Copy/ Major Flaws); Magazine trimmed; Upper right corner of magazine CHEWED with Pieces Missing = Story partly Affected; Multiple staple holes along at Spine on Left Edge. 2" x 3" piece missing at bottom left corner on Back cover; Price=US$10.00); Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall TRUE FIRST Edition MAGAZINE Format Thus. Front Cover Painting by Walter Baumhofer ; (illustrator). Book. …

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very Good. First Printing. Trade paperback.

Softcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. 22 cm. 132 pages. This edition includes additions to the version originally published in 1963 by Alan Swallow. The tepee.--Trees are lonely company.--The warning.--The stranger.--The white horse.--The bride's crossing.--Ito Fujika, the trapper.--A mountain journey.--The promised land.--The love story of Mr. Alfred Wimple.--The woman who got on at Jasper Station. Additional info or photos on request. Ships in sturdy cardboard packaging, with tracking and insurance.…

Condition: New.

Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Wilderness Men. Book.

Condition: Good+. Other than gift inscription, this is a tight and unmarked copy-" Available for the first time in one volume, Trees Are Lonely Company is a collection of Howard O'Hagan's short stories previously published to critical acclaim in The Woman Who Got on at Jasper Station & Other Stories and Wilderness Men.-Spanning decades of O'Hagan's experience as mountain guide, gentleman adventurer and storyteller this collection of tales include A Mountain Journey, The Man Who Walked Naked Across Montana, Grey Owl, The Warning and The Little Bear That Climbs Trees. The title story, Trees Are Lonely Company, was awarded the President's Medal of the University of Western Ontario in 1959 for best short story of the year. -As in his classic novel, Tay John, O'Hagan's characters in these stories are formed by and emerge from the life-force of the landscapes they inhabit emblematic of a continent emerging into history.-This collection serves to commemorate the life's work of one of Canada?s most passionately, imaginative writers.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. In the Afterword to these 272 pages, Michael Ondaatje, calls O'Hagan's important telling of this tale of the early west - mythic realism. He sets the table for Kroetsch et al. Read more about : white man, whisky smugglers, pack-horse, Tzalas, Tatlow, Swamas, Robson's Peak, Mr. Dobble, and Red Rorty. The year is 1880 and the place is the area of the Yellowhead Pass. (Or Tete Jaune, if you prefer.) UNillustrated. Cond : Paper wrapper is off-white with black lettering. Mountain graphic on cover helps one imagine the Athabaska Valley. Colours bright, binding tight. Name of p/o on first page. Light general wear. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 35) : " When the people had mourned over her for three days, on the fourth day rhey took her body, wrapped in burial clothes of cedar bark and goat's-wool, and buried it in the soft earth at the foot of a slide. They left food by ._._._. . " Size: 12mo. John William Beatty (cover) (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 5-3/8" x 8-7/16", 189pp incl. prelims + 1p publisher's advertising. Printed on alkaline paper on perfect bound in varnished printed card stock cover. The (predominantly white) cover is a bit age toned, otherwise minor shelf wear, edge wear to cover. Half title page bears the rubber stamps of both the Canada Council ("With complements of . .") and the Kootenay School of Writing at its original Vancouver address on West Broadway. Binding is square and tight. Edges a bit age toned, otherwise pages are clean and bright and unmarked.…