6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. B&W photo plates and frontis. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, spine a bit sunned. Mild wear to corners and spine ends. Binding tight, text unmarked. Hist. Stax.
402 pages. Illustrated by author's photographs. Frontispiece is black and white photographic plate of the Author in Muk-Pi's eskimo Parka. Pages white and clean with no markings. Map of Alaska across both front and back endpapers. Blue cloth with white lettering which is worn away in places. Upper cover is water stained. Head/tail of spine, edges and corners worn. GOOD
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.
Vintage Alaska Shop sticker on front flyleaf, otherwise good. No markings, no bookplate. Some wear to original blue cloth. No jacket. 402 pages, illustrated with b&w photos taken by author.
Text/Near New; showing trace margin discoloration. 1930, First Edition First ThusGilt embossed blue linen boards/NF. DJ/None. Map to endpapers. Numeral ("66") to front cover verso. Memoir. Gift inscription to fEP. Personal adventure of author & journalist Mary Lee Caldwell Davis ( - 1966), who lived in Fairbanks for eight years, as well as the story of America's last Frontier. Illustrated with photographs taken by author.
F. The dust jacket is chipped at the spine ends and has some minor wear at the extremities. ; The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover. Illustrated by the author's photographs. ; B&W Illustrations and Photographs; 8vo.; 402 pages. Illustrated by Mary Lee Davis. First Edition. Binding is Hardcover.
Size: 8vo 8"-9" tall; A fine and readable account of the eight years' experiences of the author having adventure in Alaska, written for popular audiences about Alaska, the people, cities, mineral and other resources, flora and fauna and economic development, with chapters on social history, the Gold Rush, Native American totems, and weather and climate. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, unmarked interior but for previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound simply in blue cloth over boards, gold stamped lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat. Illustrated endpapers (maps of Alaska) front and rear. 402 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.