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Synopsis
During five long visits to Alaska's remote northwest coast to sketch and paint, the late Claire Fejes became guest and friend to the Native inhabitants there, learning their ways and customs. A personal narrative in text, drawings, and paintings, People of the Notatak concerns the people of two villages--Noatak, the summer settlement of a nomadic tribe that lives mainly in the wilderness interior, and Point Hope, whose economy centers around the hunting of the great bowhead whale.
Claire eloquently captures the life of the Native Inupiat in Northwest Alaska, before outside influences changed their lives. In a few simple strokes, her drawings evoke the heart and life of the Inupiat. Thanks in part to her habit of journal-keeping, Claire was able to record what she had witnessed in her years of travel and painting up the Yukon River into the Arctic Refuge.
A native New Yorker, Claire received her art training at the Newark Art Museum and taught art until moving to Alaska. She wrote with rare insight and understanding about the intimate daily lives of mothers and fathers and their children, of husbands and wives and in-laws in the villages in which she lived, an aspect of Eskimo life rarely treated in books.
Originally published in 1966, People of the Noatak is an excellent portrayal of the Inupiat people before modern changes, a glimpse into the Inupiat world when traditional values and roots were strong.
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The late Claire Fejes is considered to be one of Alaska's finest artists. She made a name for herself by traveling to the Arctic to paint Eskimo whaling camps, and to the Yukon River to paint Indian life. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in Europe, North America, and Asia. She also was a writer and was author of Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir and the northern best-seller, People of the Noatak.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1966
- ISBN 10 0394442075
- ISBN 13 9780394442075
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages368
- IllustratorClaire Fejes
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Claire Fejes (illustrator). Very Good ; Good Jacket. 1970 Alfred A. Knopf. Third printing of 1966 edition, September 1970. SIGNED by author on front free endpaper. Not personalized, name only. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has cream cloth-covered boards with purple cloth-covered spine and silver spine lettering. Front cover has blue line illustration of men on a sled pulled by dogs. Top page edges are purple. Back cover has publisher's blind-stamped Borzoi Book logo. Black and white illustrations by the author. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. 368 pages. Dust jacket has light surface rubbing, chipped and nicked edges, and small tears. Back panel of jacket has a one-inch tear and some creases at top edge. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. signed by author. Seller Inventory # 8209
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Claire Fejes (illustrator). Third printing, 1970. Signed by Fejes on the FFEP. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and images unmarked. Bottom corner of the text block faintly dampstained. Light soiling on the bottom edge of the text block. Gift inscription on the half title page. Small stain on the ffep and half title page. Former dealer label on the RFEP. The dust jacket shows some edgewear and taped repairs, clipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. 368pp. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # CHAPfejPNO
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Claire Fejes (illustrator). 368pp. Purple cloth spine with white cloth covers, DJ VG, inscribed and signed by author on front end page, few b&w illustrations by author, personal narrative in text and drawing by the author who recorded daily lives of the Eskimos during five long visits to the coastal and inland villages of Alaska, Seller Inventory # w230732557
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ (in mylar). Claire Fejes (illustrator). 3rd Printing. Author's ink signature on ffep. Former owner's ink signature on ffep; Textblock is clean and tight; Purple spine and tan boards, blue stamped illustration on front cover, minor sunning/bumping to the head and foot of the spine, bumped corners. Price-clipped dust jacket, internally taped at the head of spine due to the chips, small corner chips, toned spine and edges. 368p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Seller Inventory # SB15488
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included. First Edition. ISBN 0394442075. Hardback. First Edition as stated on the copyright page. Small previous owners name on the first page in, otherwise book is a Tight sound unmarked copy in Very Good condition. Dustjacket is in Very Good condition with slight edgewear. $ 6.95 original price is present and unclipped on front dustjacket flap. The dustjacket has been placed in a Brodart protective cover by us to protect it and it looks much better than described. . This does not affect the dustjacket in any way, as all taping is done on the outside of the protector. No Signature. Seller Inventory # 220528
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Claire Fejes (illustrator). In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!. Seller Inventory # Q-0394442075
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