By Charles Godfrey Leland; John Dyneley Prince
New York; London   Funk & Wagnalls Company
7.5" by 5.5" 370, [3pp]
An illustrated first edition anthology of tales about the Algonquin people.
By Charles Godfrey Leland; John Dyneley Prince

1902 Kuloskap the Master and Other Algonkin Poems

New York; London   Funk & Wagnalls Company
7.5" by 5.5" 370, [3pp]
An illustrated first edition anthology of tales about the Algonquin people.
£55.00
: 1kgs / : 919P39

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Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition.

A brilliant anthology of short stories, revolving around the Algonquin people, an Indigenous group of Canada.

Illustrated with a half-tone frontispiece, fourteen plates, and in-text illustrations.

Collated, complete.

Translated from papers given to the author, translations by Charles Godfrey Leland and John Dyneley Prince.

Half-tone text illustrations by F. Berkeley Smith, tracings after Indian designs by Charles Godfrey Leland, and frontispiece by Edwin Willard Deming. 

Bookplate of Walter L. Pforzheimer to the front paste down. Pforzheimer was an ardent bibliophile who worked for the C. I. A. 

Label of Authors Club Library to the front paste down.

Three pages of adverts to the rear.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the spine and extremities. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some light marks to the cloth. Front hinge is a little strained. Two Bookplates to the front paste down. Internally, binding is a little strained in places. Pages are bright and clean.

Good

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