AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by MacDonald, George - 1909

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1909. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. Kirk, Maria L. . TOP EDGE GILT. ELEVENTH IMPRESSION. Light edge and shelfwear. A 2.5 x 1" worn spot to illustration on front cover. Tiny dot-size stain to rear board. Faint "old-book" smell. Gilt lettering to spine and front of red, cloth-covered boards. Illustration of boy and girl walking along a cobble stone surface in the evening. Endpapers, illustrated in orange. With twelve illustrations in color, including frontispiece. 352 pp. Clean, tight, bright. "I have been asked to tell you about the back of the North Wind. An old Greek writer mentions a people who lived there, and were so comfortable that they could not bear it any longer, and drowned themselves. My story is not the same as his. I do not think Herodotus had got the right account of the place. I am going to tell you how it fared with a boy who went there," (Chapter 1).