The Eskimo Store

Chicago: Albert Whitman & Company, 1948. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Gladys Rourke BLACKWOOD. First edition. Tall 8vo; [28pp] green cloth over board with color pictorial onlay of two young girls, one an Eskimo; color pictorial endpapers; color pictorial title page, 12 full page color half-tone illustrations including the frontispiece, b&w illustrations in text; corners bumed, small chip on front onlay, light shelf wear; very good. Lacking dust jacket. Published before the Alaska gained statehoof, this book is dedicated to "All the Children of Alaska who wear fawn skin parkas and mukluks with gay tassels.''.