My Life with the Eskimos

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: George G. Harrap Co., (1924). 8vo. Rebacked preserving orig. cobalt blue covers. Blind stamping on front cover. Gilt on spine. Deckle edges. (xii, 308pp.). With frontisp., 15 full page b/w plates and two folded maps. Signed and dedicated by the author on front free endpaper. Assoc. letter dated 1928 from Rachel Pitt-Rivers, daughter of Governor General of Australia, Lord Forster tipped in on rear endpaper. Some toning and foxing on prelim. pages and rear pages. Good condition. NOTE: A scarce signed abridged edition which popularises the theory that there were so called ƒ??blond or copper eskimos,ƒ?? (Copper Inuit) in the Canadian Arctic descended from the lost Icelandic colonists in Greenland. This copy is dedicated to a young John Mills, son of 2nd Lieutenant Cecil Beaumont Mills. Stefansson came to Sydney in 1924 to deliver a series of lectures on Arctic exploration.