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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.

Hardback in very good-condition. spine a little loose.

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.

Moderate wear; an adequate readable copy.

Fair-some fading on top of Book and illustrated by Authors Photos.

Previous owner inscription.

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.

In blue cloth.

xvi, 402 pp.,8vo,Stains to 1st & last few pp., shaken, cvr ink flaked, sl wear, g,

402 pages.

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.

Hardback in very good-condition. spine a little loose.

Moderate wear; an adequate readable copy.

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.

Fair-some fading on top of Book and illustrated by Authors Photos.

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.

Size: 0x0x0; ***please read*** no marks on text-no DJ-cover shows shelf wear-a few very small specks on the spine-my shelf location 12-D-24*

402 pages.

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.

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.

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.

Size: 0x0x0; ***please read*** no marks on text-no DJ-cover shows shelf wear-a few very small specks on the spine-my shelf location 12-D-24*

Illustrated with photographs.

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.

Illustrated with photographs.