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Book Description Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 38463786-75
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. True first edition in hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Mr. Houston. Name and phone number on the front endpaper in small hand. Jacket has two short tears and crease on front panel, light soiling. Very Good/Very Good. Seller Inventory # 44231
Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. James Houston. (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pp, 8vo (8 3/8" H). B&w illustrations. "Since their father's death, it has been a starvation winter for Pitohok, his siste Upik, their mother, baby sister and grandfather. Frozen lake trout that they find, with the help of a snow owl, provide their first food in three days. Though winter is nearly over, how can they survive when the fish is gone? Their only hope is a frozen caribou their grandfather had buried last fall, three days' walk away, because he was not strong enough to carry it. Pitohok and Upik must make the arduous journey to find the caribou. Using frozen caribou skin, with the remaining fish as cross supports, Grandfather fashions them a primitive sled. Then brother and sister set out on their perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra, sheltering at night in small igloos they build. The caribou is there, they load it on the sled and turn homeward - only to face a terrifying ordeal. A huge barren-ground grizzly bear, know as Long Claws, picks up their trail and follows them. Helped again by a great snow owl when they lose their way in an ice fog, the children are nearly home before the bear closes in. How can they fight him? And yet to give up the caribou means certain death by starvation." Minor edge wear. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear. Seller Inventory # 20073
Book Description Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus. James Houston (illustrator). First Edition. Clean, unmarked, and tightly bound. 32 pages. Seller Inventory # 19237
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 32 p. 21 cm. Minor wear to corners which are still sharp. Jacket has some edgewear, with a stain along top and bottom edges of rear panel, and less so on top of front panel. Crease to rear flap. Numerous pin-point dimple marks on rear. Not price-clipped. Illustrated with pencil drawings by the author. The story of Pitohok and Upik, who are forced to venture out on a trek in the depths of winter to retrieve a frozen caribou for their family to eat. As they make their way, they are tracked by a grizzly bear and must face it. Seller Inventory # 270
Book Description Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Houston, James (illustrator). 1st Edition. 33pp. Illustrated by the author. Light blue endpapers. Prev owner stamp on ffep. Blue cloth w black-line illustration on cover, black lettering on spine. Slight wear to corners, bumping to tail. Colour illustrated DJ clean, showing light shelf wear, now preserved in Brodart cover. Octavo. Seller Inventory # 049340