Thrasher ... skid row Eskimo Tapa dura - 1976

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

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… Leer más

Toronto: Griffin House, 1976. First Edition, First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good -. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, " . . . is a story of one man and two Canadas." (front flap) Blue cloth covered boards have as-new silver gilt text on spine only. Spine ends have very slight wear, fo address label and birthday gift inscription ffep, ow book is as new. Unclipped ($8.95) DJ has ends of spine /edge and surface wear. As far as my research determined there was only one printing of this book. Making it a somewhat rare copy. Bookseller's Inventory # 225647.