Mild cover warp, slightly cocked, gift inscription to previous owner. Grey cloth w/red spine lettering/wolf's head illustration, 247 pages. Apparently someone at M&S didn't think much of the first jacket (which is immeasurably better than the second), and ordered it redone. This copy comes with both dust jackets, the first state an amusing illustration featuring a wolf with its left leg around Mowat's shoulder in a friendly embrace, the second state featuring a somewhat blandly generic photograph of Mowat. His writing about this project has been both scorned and lauded. In 1948-49 Mowat spent some time in the Canadian subarctic, on the Dominion Wildlife Service's dime, observing wolves in an effort to determine if they were responsible for declining caribou populations (spoiler alert: Mowat claims that they weren't). Dust Jacket Condition: G (outer) & VG (inner). Basis for the 1983 Carroll film of the same title. Not, by any means, a perfect copy, but neither is it unattractive. Upper corner of the front inside flap has been price clipped. 1" closed tear in the upper edge of the front cover and a second in the upper edge of the rear cover, both of which fit together pretty tightly. Some age spotting is mostly concentrated on the spine and some light evidence of handling over time.
Dust Jacket has some tiny chipping in the head and tail of the spine and a 1/8" chip in the tip of each of the outside corners.
Tiny red dot on the lower edge of the textblock could be a publisher's remainder dot. Previous owner's name written on the front endpaper.
Book has very slight bumping at the head and tail of the spine and a light bump at the tip of the lower rear outside corner.
Light blue cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine.
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