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Boston and NY: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932 Book. Good Only. Hardcover. First Edition. Front inner hinge starting to crack; dust jacket pieces affixed to flyleaf; cover has light marks. "A record of a humble competitor in the race of life who was pledged to the utmost of his ability to carry the colours of the Christian theory into practice" - autobiography of this Labrador physician. Illustrated. 372 pages..

Houghton Mifflin Company. Hardcover. USED Good/No Jacket.

London: Hodder, 1933. First?. . Hardcover. Good/good-. 12mo. Patchy boards. Stain to rear joint and top edge of board. Dedication to ffep. Light spotting. Dw has wear and tears to edges. Loss to top of spine- 1". Tanning to cover.

NY: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1932 NF in blue cloth with a worn but unclipper wrapper. NOTE: We have recently purchased a large collection of Modern First Editions (like this title) by various authors from the 20's & 30's from a local estate here in Northern New Hampshire. They include scarce and collectable pieces by; L. M. Montgomery, D. E. Stevenson, A. P. Terhune, Dora Aydelotte, R. Ross Annett, Sara Ware Bassett, ames B. Connolly, and several others. Most of these are in Near Fine condition with dust wrappers and host the former owners bookplate on the verso (inside) of the front cover. These paper plates measure 1-3/4"x2-3/4" and features a photo of a Garden Gate with the words 'My Book' on top and the owners name (Jennie P. Dow) on the bottom, quite a nice touch. You may view a scan of the bookplate on my website:

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. (1932). Hardcover. 372pp., blue cloth with gilt stamping to spine. Spine is sunned with gently rubbed spine ends and cover corners. Previous owner bookplate- otherwise contents are clean and nice. About Very Good. .

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 336pp. Plate portrait frontispiece plus 8 further plate illustrations. In pale blue cloth-covered boards with deep blue lettering front and spine (boards a little rubbed at corners and around the lightly sunned spine). Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper, sparse, mild spotting, else internally neat and clean. Firmly bound. Memoirs of Sir Wilfred Grenfell, an English medical missionary to Newfoundland from 1892 to the 1920s. 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Near Fine. 1932. First Edition. Nice attractive copy, no jacket, blue cloth, spine cloth faintly sunned .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin - The Riverside Press, 1932. First Thus . Cloth. Vg/No Jacket. 8vo. 372 pgs.b/w photo illustrs.Nice copy in lightly scuffed blue cloth.Grenfell autobiography....an up-to-date version of "A Labrador Doctor" published in 1919.

Frontis portrait of Grenfell, map and 26 b&w. photo illus. (many are from photographs by Professor F.C. Sears)

Hodder and Stoughton 1934. LACKS D/W, octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs

Boston 1932 first edition. Houghton Mifflin. Thick sm4to. Blue cloth. 372p. Photo illus. Owner bookplate and owner signature. **Signed "With Best wishes Wilfred Grenfell, Labrador." VG almost no wear; in fair, worn and torn, dj. (but except for a couple of tiny chips, the dj is all present so dj looks pretty good in mylar cover.) Physician's memoirs of his years healing Labrador fishing communities. .

Book is in Very Good- condition, with some edgewear to cover and some small, light soil marks and discoloration. Some foxing, mostly in endpapers, and age-tanning throughout. Text pages otherwise clean and secure. Stamp in front endpaper "USS HUSE (de 145) 305" indicates may have been a ship library book.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+. 1932. Hardcover. Boards with faint soiling and with light rubbing to extremities. Light foxing to first and last few pages; B&W Photographs; 372 pages .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1932. Hardcover. DJ darkened and with a few spots. Bookplate. ; "The famous Labrador Doctor tells the story of his life work and many adventures among the fisherfolk of the bleak north land." ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 372 pages .

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. Hardcover. very good. First Edition. [xv], 372pp. Small quarto. Blue cloth covered boards with faded gilt lettering on spine and blindstamped signature on front cover. Blindstamped border on front board. Wear to ends of spine and bottom corners. Soiling to boards with spine considerably darker than the original blue. Slight discolouration to endpapers a few subtle soiled spots within text block; else text block is clean and tight- long outer edge roughly trimmed. Previous owners names on rear endpapers. B/W photographic plates through out including frontis. With ink original illustration by Grenfell on front free fly and signed beneath. Place loosely inside are several pages torn from a magazine with "Brin" by Grenfell on them from 1911. A very good copy with interesting illustration. Grenfell has drawn on the front free fly a polar bear fishing in a hole in the ice with foot prints behind him and the sun low on the horizon. Beneath he… Leer más

Houghton Mifflin company, 1932 Houghton Mifflin company, 1932. Very good. In good dust jacket. Light wear to cover; binding firm; pages clean. 1 Includes illustrations. Includes photographs and a drawing with inscription to friends with signature eng pp. Very good. In good dust jacket. Light wear to cover; binding firm; pages clean. Hard cover.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". F.C. Sears et al.. The first UK edition of this extended inspiring autobiography by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. The first UK edition of this extended autobiography by Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Partly inspired by his 1919 original autobiography The Story of a Labrador Doctor. Sir Wilfred Grenfell was a renowned and greatly admired medical missionary to Newfoundland. He inspired two characters in Canadian literature,  Dr. Luke in Norman Duncan's Doctor Luke of the Labrador (1904) and Dr. Tocsin in White Eskimo by Harold Horwood (1972).In the publisher's original teal cloth binding with titles stamped in gilt to spine. With unclipped dustwrapper.  In the publisher's original teal cloth binding with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally, very smart with minor shelfwear only and minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Dustwrapper is very smart, with minor shelfwear and minor closed tear to head of spine,… Leer más

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932. First edition. Illustrated. 372 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo. Blue cloth. Abour Fine, in slightly chipped photographic dust jacket. With an ink sketch of a ship in an icy sea, signed "With best wishes, Wilfred Grenfell / Labrador 1932" on ffep. First edition. Illustrated. 372 pp. 1 vols. Large 8vo.