Book has minor wear, white lettering on the spine is approx. 55% complete and 99% complete on the front cover. Dj has chips, tears, creases, soiling. Signed by the Author.
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 First edition of this anthology of stories, personal accounts, and historical references to Klondike Gold Rush figures, Native America Eskimos, traveling the Yukon River, and more by this famed Alaska pioneering woman.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 First edition of this anthology of stories, personal accounts, and historical references to Klondike Gold Rush figures, Native America Eskimos, traveling the Yukon River, and more by this famed Alaska pioneering woman.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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