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Published by National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., 1928
Pamplet. Condition: Used - Very Good. (16) pages. Color halftones, double-page pictorial map by Charles E. Riddiford. Stapled booklet, 9 x 6" Creased, rubbed, else VG.
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket. First printing. 7" x 10". 215pp. illus. wth 331 color portraits of North American Birds from paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes and 94 illus. in b&w. Previous owners signature at the top of the front flyleaf. Includes forward by Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, Common Birds of Town and Country by Dr. Henry Henshaw, How Birds Can Take their Own Portraits by by George Shiras 3rd, Encouraging Birds Around the House by Krederick H. Kennard, Our Greatest Travelers by Wells Cooke, The World Record for Feathered Friends.
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.