The Whale People.
St James's Place, London: Collins, 1962. Drawings by Mary Weiler. First edition, first printing. Teal textured boards, in variant blue dust jacket. Small bookplate front pastedown, else near fine in lightly edgeworn and rubbed, moderately toned, price-clipped, else near fine dust jacket, in mylar cover. Item #232461
Signed by Haig-Brown on the half-title.
At once a heart-warming coming of age story as well as a look into the life and culture of Native Americans on the North-West Coast, The Whale People won the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award in 1964.
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