Children's Books @ Alaska for sale -@40 titles
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Author /Artist. Title. Publishing data (printing date/copyright date).
Comments. Condition of book/of jacket. Price
F=Fine, unmarked, unbumped, unrubbed; NF= nearly so; VG=Very Good, clean,
any defects noted; G=Good Condition.
dw=dustwrap or jacket. If there is no condition code after a /slash,
there is no dw.
fep= front endpaper
Adrian, Mary. /G. Vaughan-Jackson. The North American Bighorn Sheep. NY:
Hastings, 1966, 1st, 63 pp. Inscribed & signed by author. F/NF clipped.
$15
Annixter, Paul. /Clara Bull Wilderness Ways. Penn, 1930; 6.3x9.5". Nice
cover plate of white wolves & polar bear fighting (!) Navy cloth with
stamped gilt and large color plate on front. VG, spine letters sl
darkned, large bookplate fep. $35
Beaty, John. /Helene Carter. Sharp Ears: The Baby Whale. Lippincott, 9th,
c.1938; 107 pp. Bright endpapers, the travails of a whale. VG/Vg;
ex-lib some marks: small "withdrawn" top & bottom edges & pocket trace;
edges lt soil. $7
Berry, William D. /WDB. Deneki: An Alaskan Moose. Macmillan, 1965, 1st;
8.2x11.2", @ 48 pp, np. A moose is born and moves through its life in the
Alaskan bush. Very nice ink plus crayon illustrations including some
explanatory marginalia. Signed by the author. VG in dw: Also signed by
the four young Fergus kids and 1" tape pull on ffep; dw spine browned and
bottom inch dw spine missing. $15
Byrd, Ernestine. /Marilyn Miller. Ice King. Scribners, 1967, 4th, c.1965.
Story of a polar bear. Fine in clean dw with minor tears. $9
Calvert, Patrick. The Hour of the Wolf. Scribners, 1983, 1st. A novel of
the Iditarod Race in Alaska. F/F. $6
Coombs, Charles. /Morgan Henninger. Bush Flying in Alaska. Morrow, 1961,
1st; large 8vo, 96 pp. A general account of Alaskan bush pilots, with some
stories from real pilots. VG/VG-: dw back soiled but front has a nice
color painting of a seaplane over a mountain. $20
Fejes, Claire. /CF. Enuk, My Son. Pantheon, 1969, 1st; 4to, n.p. A young
Eskimo's first whale hunt, gracefully illustrated in line and pastel
watercolors, by an artist who spent five years in northern Alaska.
Signed by the artist. VG/Good+; dw with small light stains and two short
tears. $32
Gillham, Charles. /Chanimun, daughter of the storyteller. Medicine Men of
Hooper Bay. NY: Macmillan, 1955, 1st; 134 pp. More Tales from the Clapping
Mountains of Alaska, taken down from the storytellers of Hooper Bay.
G/VG; clean and crisp but ex-lib stamped "Obsolete" on fep & rep, one
school stamp fep. $5
Houston, James Wolf Run Harcourt 1971, 1st; 62 pp. "A caribou Eskimo
tale" VG/VG; ex-lib, two stamps only. $10
Houston, James. /JH. Akavak, An Eskimo Journey. Longmans Canada, 1968,
1st; 80 pp. Akavak accompanies his grandfather on a long journey by
dogsled. VG/VG-; name fep, dw closed tear. $18
Houston, James. /JH. Long Claws, an Arctic Adventure. HBW, 1965, 1st, 32
pp. VG/VG+, ex-lib with some marks. $12
Houston, James. /JH. The White Archer: An Eskimo Legend. HarcourtBW, 1967,
3rd A novel of Eskimo-Indian conflicts, Canadian Children's Book of the
Year. NF/Gd, rmrk dot top edge. $6
Liomen, Helen. /Marjorie Flack. Taktuk: An Arctic Boy. Dday Doran, 1928,
1st; 8vo, 139 pp. Color frontis, 13 b&w plates & chapter heads by Flack.
Orange cloth stamped. Good: cloth light soil, 3 1" tears pp 32-36, 3
corners turned. $25
Lipkind, Will. Boy With a Harpoon. Harcourt, 1966/1952; 58 pp. Little
Seal dreams of the day he joins the hunt. Anthropologist Will and artist
Nicholas convey a vivid sense of the daily life and customs of the
Eskimos. VG/VG, small tape pull area. $12
MacMillian,Miriam. Etuk, the Eskimo Hunter. Dodd, Mead, 1950, 1st; 160
pp. An adventure book with "great value in its accurate descriptions of
their customs, clothing, tools, houses, etc..." NF/VG. $16
Main, Katy. Baby Animals of the North. Alaska NW, 1991, 1st; 4to, np.
Beautifully done illustrations F/F. $12
Markoosie. Harpoon of the Hunter. Montreal: McGill, 1970, 1st; 7.5x8", 81
pp. An adventure in the Canadian Arctic in the old Eskimo days. Review
copy with slip. Fine in dw with fading, lt soil, small chips. $15
Markoosie. Harpoon of the Hunter. Montreal: McGill, 1970, 1st; 7.5x8", 81
pp. An adventure in the Canadian Arctic in the old Eskimo days. Review
copy with slip. $15
Milotte, Alfred & Elma. Story of an Alaskan Grizzly Bear. Knopf, c.1969;
145 pp. VG, ex-lib some marks, lib. bind. $9
Montgomery, Rutherford. Amikuk. World, 1955, 1st. The adventures of an
Alaskan sea otter, honor book of NY Times Children's Book Festival.
Unmarked pages slightly darkened; in bright dw with 1/4" chip at spine
top: $12
Morey, Walt. /Richard Cuffari. Angry Waters. Dutton, 1969, 1st; 224 pp.
Trials and a flood beset a 15-year old delinquent on a Northwest dairy
farm. F/VG, dw corner clipped. $20
Morey, Walt. /John Schoenherr. Gentle Ben. Dutton, 1965, 1st. Friendship
between a boy and a giant Alaska brown bear. ALA notable book, Dutton
Animal Book Award. NF/F. $20
Morey, Walt. Gentle Ben. Dutton, 1966/1965, 3rd. Friendship between a boy
and a giant Alaska brown bear. ALA notable book, Dutton Animal Book Award.
Signed by the author. NF in clean dw with 2" closed tear front. $15
Morey, Walt. Gloomy Gus. Dutton, (1970). Story of a hand-raised Kodiak
bear who becomes a big attraction. Inscribed & signed by author. F/VG.
$20
Morey, Walt. Home is the North. Dutton, 1967, 1st; 223 pp. A fifteen-year
old goes to live with his grandfather, a Salmon fisherman on Glacier
Island. With bookplate and stamp of his literary agent on ep's. Else
VG/G; tiny closed puncture wound in rear board, clean dw with 1" tear. $10
Morey, Walt. Scrub Dog of Alaska. Dutton, 1971, 1st. Inscribed &
signed by the author. NF/F, Owners name and bookplate $20
Rau, Margaret. Musk Oxen, Bearded Ones of the Arctic. Crowell, 1976, 1st;
7.8x9.2, 41 pp. NF/NF but ex-lib 3 marks. $15
Riggs, Renee Coudert. /George Hood. Animal Stories from Eskimo Land.
Stokes, 1928/1923, 4th; 113 pp. Adapted from the original Eskimo stories
collected by Dr. Daniel S. Neuman. Blue cloth w white pictorial stamp.
VG; corners sl bump, name cross-out fep, pages fine. $20
Rogers, Jean /Rie Munoz. Goodbye, My Island Greenwillow, 1983, 1st; 85 pp.
Charming story of the King Island Eskimos' last winter on their beloved
island. Inscribed and signed by both
author and artist. VG+/G+; dw has 1.5" tear on front and small tears on
top spine and back. $25
Rogers, Jean /Rie Munoz. Goodbye, My Island Greenwillow, 1983, 1st; 85 pp.
Signed by both author and artist. VG+/G+; dw has 1/2" tears on front
and top corners. $20
Rogers, Jean /Rie Munoz. Goodbye, My Island Greenw
illow, 1983, 3rd; 85 pp. VG+/VG-; dw has 1" tear on back, rmrk bottom
edge $10
Rogers, Jean. King Island Christmas. Greenwillow 1985, 1st; 8vo, nnp.
Islanders solve a storm & supply ship problem in time for Christmas.
Signed by both author and artist. Pictorial boards. VG: a few small dents
in the pictorial boards; on the first page of text someone has outlined
the whale out in the sea, which does not detract. $10
Van Loon, Dirk. Papeek. Lippincott, 1970, 1st; 4to, 93 pp. A 13-year old
Eskimo goes on his first family caribou hunt and befriends a tame wolf;
with fierce half-tones by Glanzman including wolf and boy on dw.
Fine/Good, 1/2" dw hole above title. $12
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Monmouth, OR
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