My Eskimo Friends, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Robert J. Flaherty (Photos) (illustrator). 1st Edition Stated. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 1st Edition Stated. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Paste down titles with blue cloth spine and green boards, 170 pages including six maps plus nine illustrations and nine photos. Cover has edge wear and the paste-down title on the spine is rubbed. Corners are bumped and there is a closed tear near the bottom of the spine. Internal hinge cracks front and back.

Hardcover. 8vo. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Hardbound gilt lined blue cloth with blue paper boards. Typed black titles on paper labels on cover and spine. Boards are tanned, cloth is split around corners and spine ends frayed. Headband partially detached. Small chips from joint ends- taped top of rear. Front hinge slightly loose. Deckled pages slightly toned. Color and b/w plates throughout with intact tissue. Endpapers have tape remnants and church stamps. Short tear at bottom of front fly.

First Edition. My Eskimo Friends "Nanook of the North," Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924, first edition, wear to the corner tips, rubbing to spine extremities, some soiling to the boards and spine label, else a near vg copy with near fine contents illustrated with photogravures and color plates from photographs by the authors as well as halftone drawings by Eskimo artists and maps (missing the map on page 10). The source book from the film of the same name. (The film was released in 1922).

First edition. 4to. 170 pp. Illustrated with photogravures and color plates from photographs by the author, halftone drawings by Eskimo artists and maps. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (100192).

First Edition, First Printing. Signed presentation copy from documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty to screenwriter Julian Johnson, his partner in writing the South Seas Flaherty film, Moana (1926). Inscribed: ÒTo Julian Johnson, with the best wishes in the world. Bob Flaherty, New Yok, April15/25Ó. Julian Johnson (1885-1965), one time husband of New York nightclub hostess, Texas Guinan, had a distinguished career in Hollywood. He co-wrote the screenplay for Wings (1927), the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Johnson worked with D.W. Griffith on The Sorrows of Satan (1926), worked twice with Josef Von Sternberg on The Docks of New York (1928) and The Case of Lena Smith (1929) as well as numerous pictures starring actor Emil Jannings. Eventually, Johnson became the head story editor for 20th Century Fox studios in the 1930s. Quarter cloth to paper-covered boards. Printed paper titles labels on the spine and front board. Binding is tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear rubbed corners; age-soiling; title page toned and slightly foxed. quarto, 10 inches tall; 170 pages. Illustrated with Photographs and Color Plates from Photographs by the Author; and Halftone Drawings by Eskimo artists; Maps. Flaherty's popular account of several trips in the Hudson's Bay area and Baffin Island. This classic work by Flaherty, to accompany his groundbreaking film, Nanook of the North. Orson Welles picked Nanook of the North as one of his top ten favorite best films.