Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition, first printing. A stream of consciousness autobiography written by an imprisoned Inuit man convicted of manslaughter. Minor wear to un-clipped dust jacket with 1cm tear at edge of front panel and smaller half-cm chip to rear upper edge. The book itself is in fine condition with only light toning to endpapers but no marks or fading to covers or inside pages. Binding is firm. Rare in this condition. 164 pages. s186.
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Verlag: Griffin House, Toronto, ON, 1976
ISBN 10: 0887600824 ISBN 13: 9780887600821
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. A stream of consciousness autobiography, written by an imprisoned Inuit man convicted of manslaughter while he struggled to understand, adapt and survive within modern western culture "The end product was a diary as touching and savage as any ever written by a Canadian." from the front flap. Bright blue cloth over boards, title stamped in gilt onto spine, 8vo (8-3/16 inches [28 cm] tall), pp. xi, (xii - map), (1) - 164, author portrait frontis, map. Volume with light soil to cloth and faint toning to eps. Price-intact DJ with some rubbing, small tears and edge wear, a bit of toning and modest foxing verso. A difficult book to find in collectible condition, having never been reprinted and with a good number of copies still held by institutional libraries. ". the Eskimo people are like the sun spots which sometimes appear on the lens of an astronomer. We are in the way, we blur the picture the white man has of the future of the North." A. A. Thrasher.