PEOPLE OF THE DEER by Mowat, Farley - 1952

Boston: Atlantic Little Brown, 1952. (vi) 320 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; headband. Nicks and chips and a few fragments missing from around the edges of the dustjacket; previous owner's name inside. Wraparound dustjacket painting and interior drawings by Samuel Bryant. At the time, the story was already old, but the way in which Mowat told it was new. Mowat was living in a ruined culture, and he was berating the people who ruined it. The Contents are: The Why and the Wherefore; Into the Barrenlands; The Intruders; The Children; The Lifeblood of the Land; Under the Little Hills; Feast and Famine; Of Houses and Tongues; Eskimo Spring; These Are Their Days; The Boy and the Black One; The Shape of the Law; Kakumee; The Breaker of the Law; Stone Men and Dead Men; From the Inland Sea; Ghosts, Devils and Spirits; Ohoto; Days of His Father; Last Days of the People; and The Days to Come.. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good Only. Illus. by Samuel Bryant;. 8vo. Book.