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ACROSS WIDEST AMERICA, Newfoundland to Alaska, with the impressions of two years' sojourn on the Bering Coast...
Edition: First Edition
Montreal: The Canadian Messenger, 1905. Octavo, original dark green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind. pp [12], 307 + frontispiece portrait, folding map, and 24 plates from photos. Spine dulled, text paper a bit yellowed as always, partial cracks to inner hinges neatly repaired, else a VG clean & tight copy, no owner names. Jesuit missionary's travels across Canada just north of the US border, the last two-thirds of the book is on Alaska.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 27043More details Price: USD $75.00 -
ALASKA MAN'S LUCK and Other Works...Compiled and Edited by Clark Branson. Afterword by Robert O. Hahn, Ed.D. With Illustrations by Don Stepp.
Los Angeles and Santa Barbara: Garland-Clarke Editions / Capra Press, 1988. Terra cotta cloth. [6], viii, 582 pp. Illustrations in text. Fine copy. Yellow dust jacket is near fine, with a half inch tear at bottom spine fold, quite minor soiling. Contains MAD SEA (expanded version), SKIRTING ALCATRAZ (a porti on of SAILOR WITH A GUN), the complete first edition text of the title piece, and MY ALASKAN IDYLL. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 15261More details Price: USD $25.00 -
ALASKA. The Great Bear's Cub.
Boston: W.A. Wilde, c1930. Blue cloth stamped in white. 314 pp + frontispiece and numerous illustrations on 7 plates. Inscription on front free endpaper, spine lettering partially rubbing off, some fading to cloth at spine head, page edges yellowed, VG otherwise. Dust jacket chipped to corners and spine tips, moderate wear to edges, else VG. A later printing ? "Popular sketches of Alaska's wildlife, and of Eskimo and Indian lore." - AB 3712, calling for endpaper maps and 15 plates.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 23690More details Price: USD $17.00 -
ALASKA THE GREAT BEAR'S CUB. Illustrated by Pen and Ink Illustrations by Olaus Johan Murie and Author's Photographs.
Boston: W.A. Wilde, (copyright, 1930). 8vo, hardcover, blue linen grain cloth lettered in white. 314, [4] pp. 8 double-sided photographic plates inserted, vignette drawings in text. Spine has a bit of flaking to the delicate white lettering, and light flecks; light endpaper tanning from binding materials; else a fine, tight and bright unworn copy, no previous owner marks. A later printing ? "Popular sketches of Alaska's wildlife, and of Eskimo and Indian lore." - AB 3712, calling for endpaper maps and 15 plates.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 16652More details Price: USD $20.00 -
ALASKA, the Great County. New Edition with New Matter
New York: Macmillan, 1923. Later printing of the 1917 second edition, enlarged (first was in 1908). Blue decorated cloth stamped in white and gilt. pp xii, 583 + colour folding map at front, plates; indexed. Minor rubbing to spine tips, yellowing to page edges, else fine, no owner names. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29449More details Price: USD $30.00 -
Bering: The Russian Discovery of America
Edition: First edition.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. Cloth and boards. pp xxii, 330. Illustrated, index. Fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51682More details Price: USD $19.95 -
Bering's Voyages: Whither and Why
Edition: First edition.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1977. Maroon boards, endpaper maps. pp (xiv), 217. Maps in text, index. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket faintly yellowed on spine, else fine.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51681More details Price: USD $14.95 -
COMING INTO THE COUNTRY
Edition: First UK printing
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Blue boards. Light sunning to extreme upper edges of covers, else fine in fine jacket. A book about Alaska.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 46661More details Price: USD $24.95 -
ESKIMO KINSMEN: Changing Family Relationships in Northwest Alaska
Edition: First Edition
New York: West Publishing Company, 1975. Monograph No. 59 of the American Ethnological Society. Blue cloth. pp (xvi), 352, [2]. Index. VG copy. Not issued in jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44694More details Price: USD $19.00 -
HANDBOOK OF ALASKA: Its Resources, Products, and Attractiions. New Edition, with prefatory chapter on Alaska in 1914 and a map showing proposed railway routes
New York: Scribner's, 1914. Second edition, enlarge. Octavo, original maroon cloth gilt lettered. pp xxxii, 280 + plates and maps including folding map at rear and colour folding map in sleeve at rear; maps in text. Ex library - head of spine a bit frayed, mild evidence of removed spine label; cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired; "withdrawn" stamp to front free endpaper; title leaf has library perforation at bottom margin; folding map at 280 misfolded, with small chip to blank corner; else a good, sound copy, text clean and unworn, tight in the binding. Note: bit over 1 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29760More details Price: USD $25.00 -
HIGHWAY TO THE NORTH
London: Benn, 1956. Second printing. Green boards. pp (295) + plates, folding map. Couple of small light marks to covers, yellowing to page edges; ink owner name and 1 cm edge tear to front free endpaper; VG+ otherwise. Somewhat worn price-clipped jacket, good. Story of the author's trip along the whole length of the Alaska Highway.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 44888More details Price: USD $15.00 -
KLONDIKE ’98: Hegg’s Album of the 1898 Alaska Gold Rush
Edition: First edition.
Portland, Oregon: Binfords & Mort, 1949. Tall octavo. Green pictorial cloth printed in black, map and decoration to front endpapers. pp (iv), (128). Photos in text. Fine copy. Pricce-clipped jacket has rubbing and small chips; VG otherwise. Klondike photos of young photographer E.A. Hegg.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 41198More details Price: USD $22.00 -
KLUANE, PINNACLE OF THE YUKON
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1980. Quarto, blue boards, endpaper maps. xi, 175pp + colour photos. Many b&w photos and line drawings in text. Indexed. Slight rubbing at foot of spine, else fine in fine jacket, no owner nam3es. "The unique environment of North America's highest mountain range." Ecological focus. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra postage may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 42648More details Price: USD $19.50 -
Lichens of the Alaskan Arctic Slope
Edition: First edition.
University of Toronto Press, 1979. Green printed cloth. [16], 314 pp, indexed, photos and map in text at front. Partially removed label of the University of Toronto Press Design Department on front free endpaper, else a VG+ copy, no owner names or text marks.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 25573More details Price: USD $35.00 -
MY WAY WAS NORTH: An Alaskan Autobiography. Introduction by Corey Ford. Illustrations by Rachel S. Horne
Edition: First edition.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1966). Spine very lightly yellowed, else a VG clean & unworn jacketless copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 29521More details Price: USD $12.00 -
Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska, in response to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11, 1884.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51189More details Price: USD $350.00 -
THE ALASKAN. A Novel of the North. With Illustrations by Walt Louderback.
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Copp Clark, 1928. Maroon ribbed cloth gilt. pp [10], 326 + 4 plates. Light yellowing to page edges, a couple small scarcely visible damp spots to lower margin of front cover and foot of spine, soft corner crease to front free endpaper; else fine. Jacket has very light soling to white spine panel; tiny corner chips to foot of spine; short partial splits to front spine fold internally repaired with clear archival paper tape, pretty much invisible externally, a few nicks, else fine. An excellent copy, rare in this condition. Printed in Canada from US plates.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 53086More details Price: USD $95.00 -
THE COPPER SPIKE
Edition: First Edition
Anchorage, Alaska: Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, 1975. Large quarto, yellow card covers. pp (8), 175. Photos, index. Sticker stain and small abrasion on front cover, else fine. Building of a railway line up the Copper River, 1905-11.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 43577More details Price: USD $19.00 -
THE CRUISE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHT: Explorations and Hunting in the Alaskan and Siberian Arctic. In which the Sea-Scouts have a great adventure
Edition: First printing
New York: Macmillan, 1928. Octavo, black cloth gilt, endpaper maps. pp (2), (xvi), 317. Many photos in text. Yellowing to page edges; soft bumps to outer corners of covers; else a fine, bright & tight copy, no owner names, no flaking to the cover gilt. An expedition through the Bering Stait to Port Hope and Wrangel Island. Borden Field Museum 1927 Alaska Arctic Expedition, endorsed by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. In search of brown bears, polar bears, walrus, and seals. AB 1978. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 31428More details Price: USD $50.00 -
THE CUSTOMS AND LEGENDS OF THE THLINGET INDIANS OF ALASKA.
New York: Bonanza Books, (copyright 1962). Facsimile reprint of the 1962 original. Maroon plastic boards. xii, 275 pp. 8 double-sided photo plates on text paper in text. Fine in fine jacket.
Book ID: 5759More details Price: USD $15.00