THERIAULT, Yves. Agaguk … Translated from the French by Miriam Chapin. London, Dent, [1963].
8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in silver; in the original pictorial dust-wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. [viii], 229; light rubbing to extremities of wrapper, with purple 'FILE' stamp to upper panel; a few pencil and ink inscriptions and stamp to front fly-leaf; internally bright and clean, a very good copy of a fine book production in the wrappers.
First UK edition, publisher's filing copy with publication date in pencil inside front cover. Translated by Miriam Chapin, Agaguk is a novel that follows the life of Eskimos Agaguk and his wife Iriook in the Canadian Arctic. The writing follows the tracks of life in the snow, and the icy path of revenge.
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