The Ancient Ground

Nome: Privately Printed by the Keenok Club of Nome, Alaska, 1918. Hardcover. 47p., previous owner bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and extensive pencil notation about the book and author on front free endpaper, otherwise a very good first edition hardcover bound in green cloth boards with title and Keenok emblem in darker green on the front cover. The author's first book of poetry, and likely only book. He was head of the government reindeer station and publisher of The Eskimo Magazine. He died in the 1917-1919 influenza epidemic. Eight holdings located in OCLC as of 11/2024. (Inventory #: 328500)