first edition Hardcover
1942 · New York
by STEFANSSON, Evelyn
New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Pictorial papercovered boards. Foreword by Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Photographs by Frederick Machetanz and others. Modest chip at the crown, else near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with a corresponding chip at the crown and other light wear. Curiously, and presumably as a wartime paper-saving measure, the jacket was printed on the reverse of dustwrappers for Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' novel *Cross Creek*. An attractive look at Alaska by the wife of a noted Arctic explorer. (Inventory #: 57153)