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Thrasher: Skid Row Eskimo (a.k.a. The Three Lives of Thrasher: An Autobiography - Convicted Of Killing Charles Ratkovich in Calgary Alberta in 1970 ) by Thrasher, Anthony Apakark in Collaboration with Deagle, Gerard & Mettrick, Alan - 1976

by Thrasher, Anthony Apakark in Collaboration with Deagle, Gerard & Mettrick, Alan

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Thrasher: Skid Row Eskimo (a.k.a. The Three Lives of Thrasher: An Autobiography - Convicted Of Killing Charles Ratkovich in Calgary Alberta in 1970 )

by Thrasher, Anthony Apakark in Collaboration with Deagle, Gerard & Mettrick, Alan

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada..: Griffin House;, 1976. 164 pages; (215 grams); "This book ends with the author, who is an Eskimo, on his way to a hospital for the criminally insane. It ends there because to wait for a happy ending is to wait for the musk-ox to return to a white and simple north.." >>> with, Map, Frontispiece photo of Anthony Apakark Thrasher. . PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st).. Soft Cover. Good to Very Good.. Illus. by Line Drawn Cover Art.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade Paperback / Digest.
  • Bookseller COMIC WORLD CA (CA)
  • Illustrator Line Drawn Cover Art.
  • Format/Binding Paperback
  • Book Condition Used - Good to Very Good.
  • Edition PBO - Paperback Original (True 1st).
  • Binding Paperback
  • Publisher Griffin House;
  • Place of Publication Toronto, Ontario, Canada..
  • Date Published 1976
  • Size 8vo
Thrasher... Skid Row Eskimo (Inuit Biography)

Thrasher... Skid Row Eskimo (Inuit Biography)

by Thrasher, Anthony Apakark (in collaboration with Gerard Deagle and Alan Mettrick)

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Used - Very Good
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Very Good
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 13
9780887600821
ISBN 10
0887600824
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Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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Toronto, ON: Griffin House, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 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… Read More
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$130.29