Antique Roy J Snell Eskimo Book Lot Robinson Crusoe Dinner That Was Always There
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Roy J Snell (1878-1959) spent time in Alaska with an Eskimo tribe in the early 1900s as a Congregationalist missionary. He authored eskimo stories and mysteries for children.
This book lot includes:
1. An Eskimo Robinson Crusoe. Rare first edition published in 1917 by Little, Brown and Company. Pictorial front cover. Missing frontispiece and one illustration. Heavy rubbing, wear and stains to covers. Shelf-cocked. Ex-library. Front hinge is broken and book block is separating from covers. Toning and foxing throughout.
2. The Dinner That Was Always There. Third printing published in 1928 by Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago. Illustrated by Sarah K. Smith. Red cloth boards with pasted illustration on front cover. Wear around edges. "The" on the pasted illustration has a small piece missing. Illustrated endpapers. Marginalia on FFEP and title page. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. Binding is tight; pages are crisp and clean.
This book lot includes:
1. An Eskimo Robinson Crusoe. Rare first edition published in 1917 by Little, Brown and Company. Pictorial front cover. Missing frontispiece and one illustration. Heavy rubbing, wear and stains to covers. Shelf-cocked. Ex-library. Front hinge is broken and book block is separating from covers. Toning and foxing throughout.
2. The Dinner That Was Always There. Third printing published in 1928 by Albert Whitman & Company, Chicago. Illustrated by Sarah K. Smith. Red cloth boards with pasted illustration on front cover. Wear around edges. "The" on the pasted illustration has a small piece missing. Illustrated endpapers. Marginalia on FFEP and title page. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. Binding is tight; pages are crisp and clean.
