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THE DESPERATE PEOPLE
by Mowat, Farley (Rosemary Kilbourn, illustrator)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Good
- Seller
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Llandudno, Conwy, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Michael Joseph, London, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 1st UK Edition: 27 pages, illustrated, lovely chapter heading woodcuts by Rosemary Kilbourn, end paper maps. Original covers in price clipped dust jacket. Shelf wear, minor spotting to page edges, contents clean, dust jacket nibbled with a couple of minor splits now repaired with archival quality tape. Covers nice and bright. "Between 1947 and 1949, the author became friendly with the Ihalmiut, the forty-nine survivors of a tribe which once numbered thousands. He learned their way of life, their spiritual and physical dependence on the caribou, their pleasures and their many fears. Out of his love and respect for them came a vibrant book." This is the first UK edition. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2520. .
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- Bookseller
- Polar Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2520
- Title
- THE DESPERATE PEOPLE
- Author
- Mowat, Farley (Rosemary Kilbourn, illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- BZDB349 eskimo, caribou, alaska, canada Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration. Unbranded Mowat, Farley (Rosemary Kilbourn, illustrator) THE DESPERATE PEOPLE.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic & Antarctic; Exploration;
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Llandudno, Conwy
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
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