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New York: MacMillan, 1951. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: MacMillan, 1951. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Good+. Clean beige cloth boards with green title box on spine. No bumping or fraying. Binding is tight & square, pages and edges are clean. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 243 pgs. Clean bright dustjacket with price intact has ragged chipping along bottom edge of rear panel, otherwise quite presentable. Enclosed in new archival quality mylar cover. An epic novel of man and nature, set on Goddess Island (between Siberia and Alaska) where the seals live out part of their life-cycle. 8vo. Fiction..

The Macmillan Company, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. DJ has wear and tears on corners and edges. Spots on back flap of DJ. Grey/brown cloth binding has only slight wear on corners. Pages very clean and very tight throughout.

New York: Macmillan, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Translated from the French by Frances Frenaye. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some chipping and rubbing. An historical novel of the 18th Century discovery of Goddess Island, a seal mating ground, the ensuing slaughter of the animals, and the massacre's affect upon the Russian captain of the expedition. An interesting work, reminiscent of Conrad and Melville in its psychology, but well ahead of its time in its conservationist tone.