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Published by The MacMillan Company, New York, 1921
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 784 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Spine ends bumped. Some blue discoloration to edges of text block and foredge of several leaves, not affecting any text. Previous owner's name in pencil on front paste-down. Lacks maps from rear pocket (pocket torn in half). Illust. w/ b/w photos and fold-out maps.
Published by NY Macmillan 1922., 1922
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
First Edition
VG. Preface by Stefansson, commander of expedition, who explains that he is an anthropologist by profession & he started his work to learn whatever he could about the Eskimos. During 5-6 years of continuous residence he learned that the Eskimos resemble an uninstructed peasantry with a large measure of native intelligence lying fallow, lacking opportunities of instruction and development.the Eskimos are honest and intelligent but have a higher percentage of unfounded beliefs than any white people with whom I have associated. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering. Edge wear. Two maps in back pocket: Discoveries in the Arctic Sea (Positions deduced and mapped) in black & white & Discoveries in the Arctic Sea 1913-18 (tears) in color. Illustrated by Maps, photos, 2 maps pocket. 1st ed thus.