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Gordon, Kayy; Lois Neely . Arctic Ablaze. Burlington, ON, Canada: Welch Publishing Company, 1990. First printing. ISBN: 9781550111507. pp. 175. 8vo. Replete with many black and white, maps, photographs, illustrations et al. Signed and inscribed by Kayy to the title page. No detectable flaws, contents bright, clean, and unmarked with tight, sound binding; near fine. The author recounts her work as a Christian missionary in Canada’s northern frontier amongst the Inuit. “Kaye Gordon was only 22-years old when she left the west coast city of Vancouver determined to light a fire for God in the frozen waters of Canada’s Arctic. In the 34 years since she has slept in Eskimo igloos, walked in their mukluks, eaten their muktuk, and bounced behind a dog team or on a jolting snowmobile over hundreds of miles of jagged ice. Arctic Ablaze recounts the exploits of the maturing Eskimo church. Softcover. (#1206) $45.00
![I’ve scarcely finished cataloguing this lovely little book of pressed flowers from the Holy Land. Just had to share it with all you. 🌺
Wild Flowers of the Holy Land; Matt. VI, 28, 29, 30 ; London Society’s Mission to the Jews.
[Ferdinand Vester]; London Jews’ Society’s “House of Industry”. Jerusalem, Palestine: Printed at the London Jews’ Society’s House of Industry, Jerusalem, N.D. [Circa 1890’s?]. First Edition. Unpaginated [Fourteen unnumbered leaves]. Oblong 12mo., measuring 12 x 18 cm. Original quarter maroon leather over gorgeous polished bevelled olive-wood boards bearing “Jerusalem” in black atop a deeply carved Jerusalem cross to the front board; like carving to the rear boards with Jerusalem printed in Hebrew characters to the centre; marbled edges, and ivory silk-moiré endpapers. Comprises of eleven beautifully arranged dried flower specimens mounted on stiff leaves, most (excepting two) accompanied with their original, remarkably well-preserved, tissue-guards, and individually captioned with their respective geographic origins (e.g.: “Flowers from Mount Zion”, “Flowers from the Mount of Olives”, etc.). Lightest wear to the leather spine, else, no other flaws noted to the extremities. Faint toning to the title page, otherwise, contents remain near-uniformly without blemish, and with firm, sound binding. A most lovely, and unique period offering from the Holy Land. Rare to be offered in commerce in this edition, and state. This edition unrecorded in WorldCat, however, nominally corresponds to OCLC #753636624 (with notable differences in pagination, and the number of specimens). See also OCLC #698494522. (#7243)](https://blacksbooks.ca/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)
