Title: Hunting With the Eskimos: The Unique Record of a Sportsman's Year among the Northernmost Tribe -- the Big Game Hunting, the Native Life, and the Battle for Existence through the Long Arctic Night Author: Whitney, Harry Place: New York Publisher: Century Date: 1911 Description: xiv, 453 pp. Frontispiece; text illustrations from black-and-white photographs; folding map. (8vo) original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and white, top edge gilt. Second Edition. Signed by the author on a blank early leaf. With a few laid in items: 1 page autograph note, signed from Eunice Whitney (the author's widow) thanking the recipient, Annie B. Spaulding of Mystic, CT. for the flowers she sent, with envelope, dated 1941; a card from Eunice Whitney to Spaulding, with envelope on mourning stationary. Dated 1936; plus a few newspaper clippings about Harry Whitney. The first edition was published in 1910. Classic account of hunting walrus, narwhal, muskox and other game among the Eskimos of Canada's Baffin Bay and Ellesmere Land. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners; else near fine. Item number: 235527
Title: Hunting With the Eskimos: The Unique Record of a Sportsman's Year among the Northernmost Tribe -- the Big Game Hunting, the Native Life, and the Battle for Existence through the Long Arctic Night Author: Whitney, Harry Place: New York Publisher: Century Date: 1911 Description: xiv, 453 pp. Frontispiece; text illustrations from black-and-white photographs; folding map. (8vo) original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt and white, top edge gilt. Second Edition. Signed by the author on a blank early leaf. With a few laid in items: 1 page autograph note, signed from Eunice Whitney (the author's widow) thanking the recipient, Annie B. Spaulding of Mystic, CT. for the flowers she sent, with envelope, dated 1941; a card from Eunice Whitney to Spaulding, with envelope on mourning stationary. Dated 1936; plus a few newspaper clippings about Harry Whitney. The first edition was published in 1910. Classic account of hunting walrus, narwhal, muskox and other game among the Eskimos of Canada's Baffin Bay and Ellesmere Land. Lot Amendments Condition: Lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners; else near fine. Item number: 235527
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