Great White Silence
by Rouquette, Louis-Frederic
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, ( 1930). First American edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo, 236 pages, green cloth; dj nicked at head of spine, with a few scuffs and breaks. Attractive Art Deco designed dj
The protagonist, "Freddy", knows the winter of the Far North, with its bitter cold nights, when the mercury freezes in the thermometer, and restless wolves prowl about the camp; the saloon, with its dancing girls; the comradeship of a good Husky, the sport of seal hunting, and the thrill of a dash through a blizzard. Illustrated inside and the dj by Ludmilla Tchirikova. Rouquette, who died at age 42, was called "The French Jack London".
The protagonist, "Freddy", knows the winter of the Far North, with its bitter cold nights, when the mercury freezes in the thermometer, and restless wolves prowl about the camp; the saloon, with its dancing girls; the comradeship of a good Husky, the sport of seal hunting, and the thrill of a dash through a blizzard. Illustrated inside and the dj by Ludmilla Tchirikova. Rouquette, who died at age 42, was called "The French Jack London".
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0008676
- Title
- Great White Silence
- Author
- Rouquette, Louis-Frederic
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1930)
- Keywords
- Yukon fiction, Alaska fiction, art deco, Ludmilla Tchirikova, art deco,
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION / General;
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Biblio member since 2005
Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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