Adrift on an Ice Pan
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1938. Hardcover. (1938). Duodecimo (7.25 x 4.5), grey cloth in pictorial jacket with a portrait of his sled dog, Doc, on the cover. 68 pages with frontispiece portrait and 7 black and white photographic images by the author and others. Very good or better in good or better jacket with light soil and some light chipping at the edges. Some spottng on the top edge of the text block. Very good / good +. Item #19549
First published in 1909. Grenfell was a dog-sledding doctor in Labrador who, while after a mission to save the life of an injured child, was cast adrift on an ice floe. His wits, his dogs, and an observant villager shape the adventure.
Price: $20.00