E--Dust jacket is ripped and chipped and heavily soiled but now protected by plastic. Cover is mildly worn and closed edge mildly soiled. Owner's name and label on stained pastedowns and endpapers. The mildly age-toned text has occasional foxing in the margins and contains black and white photos. The text is free of pen/pencil marks, highlighting, and underlining. Sound binding. Due to size/weight of book, I can only ship domestic mail. A Little Store that's Big on Service. Tracking on every package.; Ebay.
Uncle Sam's Attic: the Intimate Story of Alaska. Illustrated By Author's Photographs
[Alaska--Women]. Davis, Mary Lee
Uncle Sam's Attic: the Intimate Story of Alaska. Illustrated By Author's Photographs
[Alaska--Women]. Davis, Mary Lee
Publisher: W.A. Wilde Co.
Date published: 1930
8vo. xv, [1], 402 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, map endpapers, w/ d.j. (chipping & tear head of spine, upper corner front cover, affecting a few letters, minor scuffing, couple closed tears), still NF/Fair copy, from the library of Wilma Burmester Bishop (1887-1969), widow of Roy T. Bishop (1881-1950), former owner of the Pendleton Woolen Mills. First edition of this anthology of stories, personal accounts, and historical references to Klondike Gold Rush figures, Native America Eskimos, traveling the Yukon River, and more by this famed Alaska pioneering woman. Mary Lee Davis arrived in Fairbanks in 1917 on the steamer Alaska because her husband John had been assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey to create a mine experiment station in Fairbanks. Mary Davis purchased the famed arts & crafts bungalow built by Lucille McCarthy, now known as the Mary Lee Davis House.
Uncle Sam's Attic: the Intimate Story of Alaska. Illustrated By Author's Photographs
[Alaska--Women]. Davis, Mary Lee
Uncle Sam's Attic: the Intimate Story of Alaska. Illustrated By Author's Photographs
[Alaska--Women]. Davis, Mary Lee
Publisher: W.A. Wilde Co.
Date published: 1930
8vo. xv, [1], 402 pp. Photo frontisp., numerous photo plates. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, map endpapers, w/ d.j. (chipping & tear head of spine, upper corner front cover, affecting a few letters, minor scuffing, couple closed tears), still NF/Fair copy, from the library of Wilma Burmester Bishop (1887-1969), widow of Roy T. Bishop (1881-1950), former owner of the Pendleton Woolen Mills. First edition of this anthology of stories, personal accounts, and historical references to Klondike Gold Rush figures, Native America Eskimos, traveling the Yukon River, and more by this famed Alaska pioneering woman. Mary Lee Davis arrived in Fairbanks in 1917 on the steamer Alaska because her husband John had been assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey to create a mine experiment station in Fairbanks. Mary Davis purchased the famed arts & crafts bungalow built by Lucille McCarthy, now known as the Mary Lee Davis House.
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second state: used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction, or a change in binding color.