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VERY RARE hardcover book. "The Earth Told Me" By Thames Williamson. This is the First Edition, published by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., London, Bombay, Sydney, 1931. 8vo, 19 cm x 13.5 cm x 2.7 cm. Blue cloth-covered boards (vinyl look) with black embossed lettering on spine, no dust-jacket. 287 pages. Weight: 426 Grams. CONTENTS ARE LIKE NEW!!! However, there is a red mark on last endpaper, mark shows through to pastedown on which remnants of glued down paper remain. Spine is discolured but mostly clean, few tiny bumps along its length, bumped & scuffed either end, tiny split in cloth at head, lettering fine, binding tight. Cover is rubbed & slightly marked, few small bumps & light scratches, tiny round burn mark on back, edge wear. Corners bumped & scuffed. Top outer edge darkened, top & bottom edges slightly scuffed. Some pages (very few) have small corner folds/creases, and/or tiny edge bunps/nicks. Light age tanning & very rare foxing throughout. VERY RARE FIRST EDITION, EXCELLENT CONDITION INSIDE!!! Description, from Synopsis inside book: "This drama of love and vengeance in the Arctic is not a conventional thriller, but a very distinguished work of literary art. It has four chief characters - a reindeer-herder of Alaska, his old mother, his young wife, and his apprentice, who has been trained in a mission school and has absorbed the 'white' attitude toward women and marriage. The latter's cunning attempts to win the girl for himself arouse in the herder feelings strange to a man of the tundra (great plain), for whom wealth of deer and meat for food usually outweigh the value of a wife, and at length he takes a terrible revenge on the apprentice. Then he sets out alone with his deer for their annual migration to the sea. His wife follows him, and in the act of beating her he falls again under her spell. What does it all mean, he wonders. The white men may be Shamans (sorcerers). Perhaps all women are too. But what does it matter? the tundra is the greatest Shaman of all, "greater than the whites, greater than all that goes on feet, and when her children come back to her and yield themselves they have peace". The Alaskan plain itself is indeed a vital character in the story." IN STOCK in the UK!!! We post the same day, or if that's not possible, the very next working day. Seller's Ref: 353-B. Seller Inventory # ABE-11940610201
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