Author: Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Title: Tales of the Labrador
Description: London, James Nisbet and Co. 1916 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this collection of stories surrounding Wilfred Grenfell's missionary life in Labrador, signed and with a humorous hand-drawn sketch from Grenfell. First edition. Signed by the author, with a delightful hand-drawn sketch entitled "Greetings from a pan of ice", inscribed to Hubert Petford. Bound in the publisher's green cloth. Written by British medical missionary, author and illustrator, Wilfred Grenfell. A collection of stories surrounding the author's time working as a medical missionary to Newfoundland. Grenfell was sent to Labrador in 1892 to help run a hospital at Indian Harbour, and then became involved in the missions expansion into developing schools, an orphanage, cooperatives and more. Illustrated with a frontispiece. Collated, complete. Bound in the publisher's green cloth. Externally, very good, with light bumping to the extremities and aa few marks to cloth, including a white mark to the front. Fading to the spine and rear board, causing discolouration. Ink inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good Indeed .

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