HAYES, Florence

Arctic Gateway

New York: Friendship Press, [1940]. 8vo. xii, 132 pp. First and only edition. 16 pages of photographic images. Green cloth with a paper title label pasted on; interior very good, some text underlined in pencil. With the bookplate of Ned Landsman on the verso of the front free end paper. Item #15034

First and only edition of an interesting account written by a female missionary to Alaska in 1939. She was part of a party of American Presbyterians sent to “take photographs and gather fresh information on the mission work carried on there.” It includes many pictures of Inuit people and their interaction with missionaries.

Price: $50.00