Collaboration

1976 · ref. 2597 — 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 has of the future of the North." A. A. Thrasher. Griffin House hardcover