Blue cover with flaking white lettering shows wear to all edges and some fraying. Map end papers. Front hinge cracked with webbing showing but tight. No markings. Pieces of DJ cut and pasted to first few pages.
1st Edition: xvi, 402 p, illustrated, b/w plates, map eps. Blue cloth covers with white titling. An account of the author's eight years experiences and adventure in Alaska. AB3714.Popular description of Alaska, the people, cities. resources, and development with chapters on history, the Gold Rush, totems, and climate. DAMP DAMAGED, readable copy only. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Arctic & Antarctic; Antarctic; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 2360.
1930, 402pp, frontis, usual lib. markings, lib. rebind, title pg is missing, sun fading to spine, slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, no dj, contents clean.
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.
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.
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.
MA W.A. Wilde Company 1930. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown VG. in no dj blue pict c, some chipping of lettering; in mylar protective wraps 402 pages. Illustrated by illus. 1st edition. 8vo
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