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[NAVIGATION & MARITIME -- ARCTIC RUSSIA & ALASKA].
Arctic pilot: the coast of Russia from Voriema or Jacob River in Europe to East Cape Bering Strait including off-lying islands. H.O. No. 137 Volume I; Summary of notices to mariners and other information for the years 1927 1928 and 1929. Affecting Hydrographic Office Publication No. 137 Arctic Pilot Vol. I. . . .
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1917; 1930. Two vols. 8vo. ix 1 4 364 pp.; 19 mimeograph leaves. With 2 large folding colour map. First vol. in black publisher’s buckram silver lettering stamped on front cover & spine minor shelfwear slight interior toning shelfwear 2nd vol. mimeographed typescript & stapled at gutter margin minor dustsoiling edgewear predation to lower fore-edge tear to last leaf of blank lower portion still a VG set. First editions of these coast pilot guides to Arctic waters during and after World War I issued about the time of the Russian Revolution and offered key navigational guides for Naval forces during the ill-fated White Russia Revolution and over 13000 troops in the Polar Bear Expedition. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions often drawing not only from Russian & British sources but also sailing reports from U.S. Navy vessels and those from merchant ships. The two maps serve as indexes to sailing charts to be ordered from the Hydrographic Office and keyed to sailing instructions within the coast pilots. The supplement is uncommon no copies located in Worldcat. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, hardcover
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[Photography] [Alaska] [Indigenous Peoples]
REAL PHOTO POSTCARD OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT WRANGELL ALASKA
The Industrial School in Wrangell Alaska pictured in this circa 1905 real photo postcard was founded in 1877 by the first Presbyterian Church in Alaska. The purpose was to teach young native men of the area known as the Tlingit various American trades such as printing boatbuilding and construction. It closed in 1907.<br /> <br /> A new Wrangell Institute boarding school was operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1932 until 1975 at a site a few miles south of Wrangell. Children were forced to attend the school which for some was a traumatic experience because they were removed from their homes and families and forbidden from speaking their native language.<br /> <br /> The black-and-white card measures roughly 5 ½" x 3 ½" with a few light pencil markings on the verso. The front of the card is coated and the name of the school and location are etched in the negative. Overall in very good condition. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 77191
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[Science et Vie]
SCIENCE et VIE - n° 310 - juin 1943
Une revue de 56 pages, format 165 x 245 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs, bon état
Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA-126735003
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[Terre Sauvage]
TERRE SAUVAGE
N° 295 (Août 2013) : 98 pages, format 220 x 285 mm, illustré, broché, bon état
Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA-126731453
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[THE ALASKA LINE]
THIS IS ALASKA
Seattle: Frank McCaffrey n.d. 1944. 1944. 10" x 7 5/8" in pictorial wrappers. 28 pp. including wrappers. Illustrations. Map. Information on all one might expect to see and do when visiting Alaska. Offers extensive information on Alaska's history and sites to include its glaciers Indians totems mining midnight sun etc. followed by information on a variety of tours and cruises to include Golden Belt Line Tours Yukon River Circle Tours Copper River - Keystone Canyon Tours the Inside Passage and Totemland Tours Prince William Sound Cruises etc. Also offers basic information about an Alaska cruise to include when to visit what to wear what about mail etc. Black and white photographs throughout to include Sitka Edgecumbe Childs Glacier Mt. McKinley individuals participating in various activities Valdez Skagway Wrangellvarious ships in the fleet etc. Inside rear wrapper is a color system map showing the routes of the various tours offered. Covers and spine worn and with splits to head and toe of spine. Rear wrapper with travel agency sticker. Inside rear wrapper reinforced with tape. Still a nice presentation of all Alaska has to offer. Frank McCaffrey, n.d. [1944]. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 43828
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[Timbres Magazine]
TIMBRES MAGAZINE - L'OFFICIEL DE LA PHILATELIE n° 88 (Mars 2008)
Revue mensuelle concernant la philatélie : environ 110 pages en couleurs, format 300 x 210 mm, illustrée, brochée couverture couleurs + fiches détachables
Referenz des Buchhändlers : LFA01817
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[U S Department of the Interior, The Alaska Railroad]
Big Game Hunting Along the Alaska Railroad
Chicago: U. S. Department of the Interior 1932. 10pp. Square octavo. Colourfully illustrated paper wrappers with a map of the Alaska Railroad on the verso of the back wrapper. Heavily illustrated with black and white photos and drawings within the text. Fold line down the middle where it was folded to act as a pamphlet. Very mild edgewear to the wrappers otherwise a very good copy of this scarce piece of ephemera. A wonderfully produced little pamphlet promoting the Alaska Railroad and the central portion of Alaska as having the "choicest big game fields" in America. U. S. Department of the Interior unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 142456
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[WASHINGTON, ALASKA, MONTANA & IDAHO - NORTHERN PACIFIC].
Across the continent via the Northern Pacific: from the Lakes & Mississippi River to the Pacific Columbia River Puget Sound & Alaska.
St. Paul MN: W.C. Riley Publisher Engraved by Charles Frey Franfurt Germany ca. 1890. Oblong 8vo. 9.75 x 6.25 in. 30 leaves unnumbered. sepia-tinted leporello accordion-style format. With 30 lithograph plates including 1 double-leaf plate w/ 2 birds-eye views of Minneapolis & St. Paul 1 birds-eye panoramic views of Northern Pacific train & Duluth Harbor many sepia-tinted views on remaining. Quarter-black cloth over elaborately decorated & embossed burgundy-coloured covers gilt lettering & decoration front cover minor scuffing edgewear small discrete paper repair to a few hinges hinge still a VG copy. Third edition “30000†of this nicely executed souvenir book issued in the same size as the popular “Boudoir†albumen souvenir photos for the Northern Pacific as its route opened through the Northern United States railroad lands for development across the West and expanding upon the much smaller original 1888 “Northern Pacific Tour.†These lithographs were created by hand-drawn images from photographs and printed using the Glaser/Frey lithographic process using five or more stones to lay down a series of separate shades offering a varnished look. The NP RR souvenir view book includes images of Dakota wheat fields Custer Battlefield monument Crow Indians at Yellowstone Montana cattle roundups and gold mining along the Columbia River with birds-eye views of Butte & Helena MT Spokane WA and salmon fishwheel as well as early birds-eye view of Portland OR. Views of Alaska include Sitka Juneau Totem Poles on Wrangel Island and the glaciers. The piece concludes with birds-eye view of San Francisco. W.C. Riley Publisher, [Engraved by Charles Frey, Franfurt, Germany], hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 60273
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[Western Americana – Alaska – Klondike Gold Rush – Lithography] Teller, Robert [lithographer]; Metz, Theo
The Klondike March of the Gold Miners
New York: Willis Woodward & Co 1897. Folio sheet music complete. Illustrated color lithograph title page by Robert Teller. Covers detached contents complete good with lithographed cover in particularly bright and attractive condition. Sheet music issued at the height of the Klondike Gold Rush capitalizing directly on the surge of public interest following the discoveries in the Yukon in 1896–1897. The lithographed title page signed in style by Robert Teller shows a dramatic scene of prospectors working a gold deposit in the mountains with two miners in the foreground bent over a pile of freshly uncovered gold tools in hand. Theodore August Metz was a German-born musician trained on violin in Hanover who emigrated to the United States and worked various trades before establishing himself as a bandleader and composer in Chicago’s late 19th-century popular music scene. He achieved national prominence with “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight†1896–97 a widely performed marching tune that became especially popular during the Spanish-American War and in minstrel and touring band repertories. <br /> <br /> OCLC 726910235 locating a single copy at the Levy Collection. Willis Woodward & Co unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : Cat358
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[Western Photographica]. [Alaska]
Handsome Collection of Vernacular Images Featuring the Copper River Region of Alaska at the Turn of the 20th Century
Copper River Valley Ak 1905. Very good. Forty-five printing-out paper photographs between 3.25 x 3.25 and 4 x 6 inches plus three real photo postcards. Minor wear a few creases occasional light soiling. A unique collection of almost fifty images capturing scenes in and around Copper Center in the Copper River Valley of Alaska in the years after gold was first found there in 1898. The images document pioneers panning for gold running dog sled teams posed in front of early wooden buildings in a bleak snow-covered landscape and more as well as capturing shots of a riverside mill a wooden bridge scenery on the Copper River and the majesty of the surrounding forests. A handful of the images capture pioneer women and children posed for the camera in winter clothing worn to combat the bitter Alaskan winters. One image pictures three men and two dogs standing outside the Hotel Holman an early Copper Center roadhouse that began in a tent but was opened in a wooden structure in 1899; the present image captures the post-1899 wooden structure. The Holman Hotel was established in July 1898 by Copper Center's first resident Andrew Holman in order to provide shelter for prospectors on their way to the Klondike gold fields. Copper Center is located northeast of Anchorage and served as a brief but important way station for gold prospectors in southeastern Alaska; one image here apparently pictures the early riverside settlement or is perhaps an early view of Anchorage. A rare view of Alaskan life in an uncommonly-seen settlement during the first decade of the 20th century. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3538
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[White Pass and Alaska]
The Alaskan Tourist
Skagway Alaska: Edw. H. Mitchell for Case & Draper ca. 1905. Oblong 12mo 22 X 15 cm. Illustrated with 16 tinted plates from photos including scenes of Skagway Summit of White Pass Lawton Glacier and Totem Poles at Sitka. Original black wrappers with white lettering on front cover and brown tie strings on spine. Minor chips to front edge of covers. A very good copy with clean and bright photos. Not in Tourville or Kurutz. For some reason seems very scarce. 1905 Edw. H. Mitchell, for Case & Draper unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 144857
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[White Pass and Alaska]
The Alaskan Tourist.
Skagway Alaska: Edw. H. Mitchell for Case & Draper. Softcover. very good. 1st Edition. unpaginated. Oblong 12mo 22 X 15 cm. Illustrated with 16 tinted plates from photos including scences of Skagway Summit of White Pass Lawton Glacier and Totem Poles at Sitka. Original black wrappers with white letterng on front cover and brown tie strings on spine. Minor chips to front edge of covers. A very good copy with clean and bright photos. very good Not in Tourville or Kurutz. Seems very scarce. Probably considered more of a Skagway item based on the photos. Edw. H. Mitchell, for Case & Draper paperback
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 122173
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[Wyoming]. [Alaska]. Platt, William Sherman
Collection of Eight Manuscript Letters from a Young Man Working in Wyoming and Alaska in the Early-20th Century
Alcova Wy.; Gulham and Achorage Ak 1922. Very good. Eight autograph letters signed totaling approximately 32pp. All in original transmittal envelopes. Old mailing folds minor wear. A small archive of letters documenting brief bouts of time in the life of a young Massachusetts man working in Wyoming and Alaska in the years during and just after World War I. William Sherman Platt 1896-1969 was born in Troy New York. Throughout his life he worked as a shipper at a lumber yard and eventually as the manager and then proprietor of a coal company by 1950. He served in the military during the latter portion of the First World War but apparently did not serve in Europe. Later at the age of 46 he filled out a draft card for World War II but it is unclear whether he served during the war likely not. The present collection of his letters document two brief snapshots of Platt's life as a young man from about ages eighteen to twenty-six.<br /> <br /> Platt wrote his earliest five letters from Gate Ranch in Wyoming to his parents back in Leominster Massachusetts. Platt's earliest letter from Wyoming dated July 4 1914 includes his initial reaction to the place and a stark appraisal of the locals: "I think I will enjoy things here very much indeed when I get accustomed to the place & the people. They are for the most part ignorant animals but they all mean well." In his second letter Platt complains about the slowness of the mail then offers an appraisal of the food in Wyoming: "The food is plain but well cooked and palatable and there is always plenty of it." In his third letter Platt describes the road work he was performing in and around Alcova: "Last week myself and two other fellows went down toward Alcova fixing the road. We were fixing up an old wood road for Mr. Schoolmaker to use as an auto road We camped out cooking out or meals and sleeping in our tents. It was very interesting." He describes some of his other work in his penultimate letter from Wyoming on July 30: "You want to know what I am doing. Well I am working. So far I have worked at carpentering surveying irragating sic road building and fence repairing beside hoeing weeds and helping a little with the chores once in a while. I don't know what I may strike yet. I am very busy but it is not what you would call distinctively Western work. I might do it anywhere. Still it is all right." He then provides another impression of the locals in Wyoming: "I have more fun than a little listening to these fellows around here talk. They are mostly old American stock who think that they are as good as anybody and a little better. They have views on all conceivable subjects which they are glad to air on all occasions aided with a copious flow of profanity. They sure are some fun." Platt writes his last letter from Wyoming on August 2 and reports further on his activities reading helping the cook the food again and also discusses his prospects for college which he apparently meant to start soon. He prefers to attend Clark University in Worcester but also mentions staying on the ranch in Wyoming "to learn something about ranch work" until December and then heading home to Massachusetts after going to see San Francisco.<br /> <br /> Apparently Platt enlisted in the Marines sometime in 1917 as one of his letters is dated September 16 from that year while at Paris Island South Carolina. Platt details his training and "hard labor" in the military. He had apparently left the military for the timber industry in Alaska by 1920 as his final two letters emanate from Chitina Alaska in the Fall of 1920. Platt's first letter is dated October 5 1920 and describes his work in Alaska: "Since I wrote last I have been working in the woods steadily.so long as I stay here. Really the logging here is a joke. The timber is small scattered and almost all rotten at the butt. Today there were 7 of us in the woods and we only got 70 logs short ones at that 12 to 16 ft. I have been climbing the trees all the time and I guess that will be my regular job from now on. It is easy. Most of the limbs are dead and break off." He also describes the short working day his camping rituals his like for malamute dogs and their work eating caribou and more. The present collection also includes two letters from Platt's mother sent to him in Alaska reacting to his activities but largely reporting on events from home. Platt's second and last letter from Alaska dates from January 11 1922 from Anchorage when he writes a friend also named Bill. Platt spends about half of this letter detailing the opportunities for mining in Alaska and describes a trip into the Alaskan interior: "But there is all kinds of mining on all sides of it. For quartz why the Willow Creek District is about the best. There is probably a dozen outfits operating. There is also a few coal mines in operation some at Kenana Healey & Eska Creek and a few other smaller layouts in different places. Summer before last I took a trip in through the Interior but I found it very unsatisfactory. Very expensive to move and the wages wasn't over 5 or 6 dollars a day and board for labor." In addition to his own letters the present group includes a 1917 letter from Platt's grandmother asking him to stay away from the current "awful war" as well as four family letters from the late-19th century. A small but informative group of letters surrounding a young Massachusetts man adventuring in the American West and Alaska in his younger years. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 4725
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AA. VV.
Mineral resources of Alaska Report of progress of investigation in 1927
Bulletin 810 della collana United States Department of the Interior - Geological Survey, direttore: George Otis Smith. Opera di Philip S. Smith ed altri. Volume del 1930 in stato discreto, coperta in cartoncino, su piatto anteriore catalogazione bibliotecaria manoscritta, bordo poco sfregato, tracce di fioritura sparsa, pieghe, tagli leggermente bruniti, pagine in buono stato, cerniera stretta. Presenta I tavola fuori formato, ben piegata, in fondo al volume una busta fissata su controguardia contenente due tavole con cartine a colori, fuori formato,, ben piegate. Numero Pagine 174 USATO
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AA.VV.
In mezzo ai ghiacci. Viaggi celebri al Polo Nordd di Sir John Franklin, Kane, Mac Clintock, Hayes, Hall, Tyson, Hegemann, Koldevey, Payer e Weyprecht, Nordenskjold e Nares narrati dai viaggiatori stessi. Con prefazione del Prof. G. Dalla Vedova Segretario della Societa' Geografica Italiana.
Cm. 30, bella legatura in tela rigida editoriale decorata a rilievo con scene animate e scritte in oro, pag. XVI, 646 (2). Manca la carta geografica della calotta polare. Con 343 incisioni nel testo, molte a piena pagina. Piacevolissima raccolta delle esplorazioni più celebri delle zone polari dal 1853 al 1879. Ottimo esemplare.
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ABERCROMBIE, W. R.
Alaska. 1899. Copper river exploring expedition.
Washington, Government Printing Office 1900, 235x155mm, 169pages, editor's binding. Book in good condition.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 28796
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Abs, Jos. M
Der Kampf um unsere Schutzgebiete
Unsere Kolonien einst und jetzt. Düsseldorf, Floeder, 1928. 4to. Mit 3 Karten u. 84 fotografischen Tafelabbildungen. 287 S. Or.-Lwd. [4 Warenabbildungen]
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Adak, Alaska (U S Navy) (Ephemera)
Hammerhead Lodge Menu
Adak AK: Hammer Head Lodge. Very Good. 0. Hardcover. This is a cardcover folder / menu with a decorated and stamped front cover. The interior contains two typed pages of menu items with prices under plastic holders. This menu is from circa 1955 at the Hammerhead Lodge which was the Naval Officer's mess on Adak Island Alaska. "On 1 July 1950 the Air Force transferred Davis AFB to the United States Navy who established an anti-submarine warfare base there. Adak was most recently run by the U. S. Navy as a deployment base for P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft primarily to conduct antisubmarine warfare operations against submarines and surveillance of naval surface vessels of the former Soviet Union. The Naval Air Facility was also reported to be used as a refueling stop for U-2 Dragon Lady ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft. By the 1980s there were over 6000 Navy personnel on the islands. With the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s NAS Adak's operational viability as a front-line military installation began to wane and in the mid-1990s a decision was made by the federal government to cease military flight operations there under the military's Base Realignment and Closure Program BRAC. On 31 March 1997 the Navy closed Adak Naval Air Facility. The lowering of the flag for the last time ended an era that began of 31 August 1942 when U. S. Forces landed on the Aleutian Island and established an advance base there for operations against the Japanese on Kiska and Attu Islands. The Navy left behind a contingent of 30 Navy personnel and 200 civilian contractors to maintain facilities keep the runway open and begin an environmental cleanup." . Hammer Head Lodge hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : A37467
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Akasofu, S. I.
Aurora Borealis : The Amazing Northern Lights (Alaska Geographic Ser. Vol. 6 No. 2)
95 pages. Profusely illustrated in both colour and black and white. Written by one of the world's authorities on auroras, a professor of geophysics at the University of Alaska. "In these pages you will be introduced to the history of auroral science and the development of our understanding of the phenomenon, and we'll explain, in layman's language, what we now know about how the aurora works. Finally, the reasons for auroral study today will be outlined, with particular emphasis on its great relevance to our technological future." - from the introduction. Unmarked. Average wear. Six inch crease to lower corner of illustrated front cover. Book
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ALASKA - ABERCROMBIE, W.R.
Alaska. 1899. Copper River Exploring Expedition.
Washington, Government Printing Office, 1900. Orig. full cloth. Light discolouring to back. 169 pp., 168 photographic plates and 1 large folded map.
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ALASKA - U.S. SENATE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS.
Compilation of Narratives of Explorations in Alaska.
Washington, Governemnt Printing Office, 1900. Large 4to. Orig. red full cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine dusty. VII,856 pp., textillustrations, 33 plates and 27 folded maps. Internally clean and fine.
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 54584
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Alaska
1954 Telephone Directory. Seward Alaska. Owned and Operated by Alaska Telephone Corporation cover title
Seward 1954. Near fine. 32pp. Original green printed wrappers stapled. An ephemeral telephone directory for the city of Seward Alaska population around 2000 people. With combined retail and personal listings the text also includes advertisements for local businesses including an Avon lady. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2016
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Alaska
1960 Real Photo Postcard of Maxine Cothern Fairbanks Winter Carnival Queen First Miss Alaska to go to Atlantic City
Pomona California: Frashers Photo 1960. A glossy real photo postcard of the crowned happy beauty contest winner seated on her throne of ice; approx. 3 1/2"" x 5 1/2" size; with photographic studio name of Frashers Photo of Pomona California and identifiers on front no. F. 9099; postally unused; with some later pencil notes on back; light wear and in very good condition; an interesting beauty contest photograph from the Alaska entry at the middle part of the 20th century. Very Good. Frashers Photo unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 20114
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Alaska
A Hand Book of Vacation Trips in Alaska and the Yukon on the White Pass and Yukon Route
Chicago: Poole Brothers 1920. Very good. 55pp. Oblong 12mo. Original printed wrappers. Light wear. A nice copy of this photographically illustrated promotional for sights along rail and steamer lines in Alaska and Yukon owned by the White Pass and Yukon Route. With plenty of illustrations and information about points of interest between Skagway and Whitehorse. Poole Brothers unknown books
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Alaska
A Hand Book of Vacation Trips in Alaska and the Yukon…
Pamphlet 3 1/2 x 6 pictorial wrappers stapled illustrated 55 pp. Slight wear and slight bend to some pages but very good to near fine. This little guide book to Alaska contains an amazing amount of information on the vast territory and its towns and cities as well as how to travel around it. Contains a couple of small maps to help the reader get around and even includes a rail schedule too. Additionally there are a number of small black and white photos that illustrate Alaska at the turn of the last century. books
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ALASKA
A Handbook of Vacation Trips in Alaska and the Yukon the White Pass and Yukon Route
n.p. White pass and Yukon Railway 1937. 1937. Oblong small 8vo. Three maps; b/w illustrations. 56 pages. Original pictorial wrappers. Very good. Soft cover. [n.p.] White pass and Yukon Railway [1937]. paperback books
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Alaska
A HISTORY OF THE WRONGS OF ALASKA. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE AND PRESS OF AMERICA. PRINTED BY ORDER OF THE ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION OF THE PACIFIC COAST
San Francisco 1875. 43pp. Original front wrapper bound into later half morocco. Very good. A propagandistic appeal by the unsuccessful bidders for a fur seal contract for the repeal of the so-called monopoly of the Alaska Commercial Company. Claims to present only the "facts" and calls on the people and press of America to petition Congress for the repeal the government granted to the Company for a monopoly in the fur seal trade. Includes a brief historical sketch of Alaska focusing on how her natural riches came into the hands of a few money-hungry robber barons and paints a dismal picture of the "serfdom" of the civilized natives on the fur seal islands of St. George and St. Paul. TOURVILLE 269. RICKS p.26. WICKERSHAM 1793. unknown books
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ALASKA
Alaska: Land of Gold and Glacier
Chicago: Poole Bros 1898. hardcover. very good. Large colored folding map laid in. 61 page pamphlet slim oblong 12mo stiff pictorial wrappers. Internally near fine covers are lightly soiled and corners and top of spine chipped. Chicago: Poole Bros. 1898. First Edition. Scarce. Very good.<br/> <br/> Poole Bros unknown
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ALASKA
Alaska: Land of Gold and Glacier
Chicago: Poole Bros 1898. hardcover. very good. Large colored folding map laid in. 61 page pamphlet slim oblong 12mo stiff pictorial wrappers. Internally near fine covers are lightly soiled and corners and top of spine chipped. Chicago: Poole Bros. 1898. First Edition. Scarce. Very good.<br/><br/> Poole Bros unknown books
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Alaska
ALASKA: POCKET MAP--Showing Political Divisions Cities and Towns etc.
Chicago: Rand McNally & Co 1930. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Map in color opens to 21" x 28". Folded into gray stiff wrappers 9.25" x 4.25" Inset of the Aleutian Islands. Rand, McNally & Co unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 039757
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Alaska
Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. United States Atlas. Maps and Charts accompanying the Case and Counter Case of the Unites States
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1904. 47 Colored & black and white maps some double-page. 1 vols. Folio. Bound in quarter calf and pebbled black cloth spine split. Ex Libris of James Wickersham. 47 Colored & black and white maps some double-page. 1 vols. Folio. Government Printing Office unknown books
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Alaska
Album of Aerial and Cultural Photographs
Alaska various: np nd ca. 1947. Very good. Oblong folio commercial hardcover album made by The Burkhardt Company Detroit model X 89500 13.5” x 10.75” x 2.5”. Screw binding 74 black paper pages with a single black and white gelatin print mounted recto only to each most measuring approximately 7.5" x 9” with brief typed captions mounted below. Additional print mounted to front cover; 75 photographs total. Album exterior moderately worn cloth dry and flaking. Three sections of material loss at outer edge of covers and to upper rear likely mouse-bitten similar loss to edges of final two pages not effecting photos. Two images missing captions. Photographs well preserved occasional mild wear. About very good. <br/><br/>An impressive collection of 75 well-annotated predominantly aerial photographs of pre-statehood Alaska likely compiled by a U.S. Army Officer stationed at Fort Richardson near Anchorage just after WWII. 49 images captured from aircraft of some of the most spectacular unspoiled environments anywhere. Cities settlements and geographical locations include Galena Ketchikan Port Alexander Sitka Port Althrop Skagway Juneau Fort Seward Valdez Anchorage Barrow Nome the Taku Glacier Mount McKinley Mount St. Elias and Mt. Moffet. The remaining 26 prints equally as beautiful though taken at ground level display the cultural and trade aspects present around 1947. Highlights include an Eskimo mother and daughter on Nelson Island fishing boats in Ketchikan totem poles on Wrangell Island a midnight baseball game and a full salmon scowl at a cannery in southeast Alaska. Five prints with lettering in the negative though none with clear evidence as to the purpose behind their creation. Clearly the work of a skilled photographer an immediately engaging collection of images. NOTE: High resolution scans of this complete album are available. np hardcover books
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Alaska
BIG LAKE WATERSHED ATLAS - WETLANDS & WATERBODIES WITHIN THE BIG LAKE WATERSHED
Palmer Alaska. 2008 first edition. Matanuska Susitna Borough. 133 color arial maps. Oblong large folio - 11 x 18 inches. Plastic spiral binding. VG maps are in Fine condition. from a non-circulating depository library so light library markings. . unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : a104032
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Alaska
C. 1933 16mm Film Regarding Alaska: Natural History Inuit Life and Customs Fishing Hunting Travel & Exploration and Missionary Activities Community History & More
Alaska: No Publisher 1933. The movie can be loosely interpreted as the history of a journey up the Alaska coastline with some land interior footage beginning in the more southern tier and ending in the bleak far northern ice lands with 'stops' along the way; the movie has a semi-professional 'feel' - for several reasons some of which are that editing between segments is smooth and uninterrupted there are occasional professional 'titles' interspersed in the film and perhaps most importantly the quality of the imagery and the 'narrative' progression of scenes speaks to a professional behind the lens; subjects are diverse: at the beginning of the film we view the vast panoramas of the Alaskan lands mountains and rivers treated to a Robert Service quote - ".there's a land where the mountains are nameless and the rivers run God knows where." with men and a lively dog standing aboard a rapidly-moving raft poling down a river - the same men seemingly very closely for comfort observe bears fishing a stream during a salmon spawn and climbing nearby trees; the men demonstrate salmon bow-fishing and bring the catch home; the camera eventually moves on to the coastal trip being on board small steamers and sailing craft; we observe the "Wrangell Branch" of the A & P Packaging Co. with cannery scenes; visiting an outpost medical clinic seemingly obstetric; on to footage of the massive caribou movements across the tundra lands and natives hunting them; Inuit trade polar bear & other skins at a 'trading post' for goods; heavy-duty tractors used on icy surfaces to transport entire houses & populations; the stamina and strength of sled-dogs pulling up what looks like a 45-degree angle hillside at speed and in deep snow; ice-chopping for massive slabs used to build a home igloo; a costume parade of little children in a town which also shows mission children and schools young men and women in activities around sturdily-constructed multi-story brick buildings probably related to missionary work in the Territory; native carvings totem poles and other crafts; ski-planes at a small wintry airport runway - identified as "Pacific-Alaska Airways"; perhaps most exciting and interesting is the film's showing of an Inuit whale-hunt the bringing in of the great creature - hauled by hand the hunters seated on the ice in rows and strongly pulling at tremendous rope hawsers - the flensing of the blubber and an extremely lively victory party afterward obvious happiness and exhilaration of the people dances and chanting of women and men after the great capture - the fun includes being tossed in the air trampoline style done standing up the local people all dressed in the available skins and hides hunted there; various little stops are made along the way by the boat as it moves up the Alaskan fiord-scape - at one point we are treated to an exhibition of the Inuit kayak with a native spinning under the cool waters in his boat; the kayaks push offshore to greet the supply ship in this case a 4-masted schooner - we see this vessel at anchor and also magnificently under full-rigged sail - and retrieve goods in their longboat; eventually the coasting brings us to a dramatic close with a sunset silhouetting the schooner with only icebergs on the horizon; there are 'human' moments as well this is not simply an amateur travelogue - young women coquette a bit for the camera town worthies and ancient native people sit in dignity graveyard views which linger over readable headstones; people at work and play with vigor and without a 'staged' feeling -cute and very strong & skilled little kids in a wood-chopping contest and more; there is approximately 1600 feet of 16mm film run time about ½ hour; we speculate this is the original or master since there are several safety film types used here: Kodak safety positive Dupont Pathe Gevaert safety film and perhaps others - seemingly a copy of the master would have been using all one film type; these sections are professionally spliced together and viewable as we have watched this production on film a desk-type film editor as well as a through a projector; occasionally and unexplainably by checking the film types at the change there is a yellowish cast to the scene which does not obscure detail and which shifts abruptly back to clear black and white footage; on an old reel; no credits are given for the photography or direction production of the film; a possible clue is offered in an accompanying item a large sepia & black chalk portrait heightened in white on Canson & Montgolfier France watermark paper of what appears to be a reverend or Protestant cleric who bears a close resemblance to one of the characters seen several times in the film and who may have been a missionary in Alaska or perhaps ended up as the recipient of this master film; pastel portrait measures approx. 18" x 22" signed lower left Melita Hofmann C. 1907-1976 a commercial artist and illustrator originally from Toledo Ohio who worked as an art director for Grosset & Dunlap and in book illustration - the portrait with some closed edge tears repaired on verso otherwise in good shape and a good likeness accomplished with skill; the film in very good condition and viewable albeit with some vinegar syndrome - usual with films this vintage - and one of the most interesting ethnographic and historical artifacts and perhaps unique that we have had in stock filmed during a time of great change for the Inuit for Alaska and its' landscape; our thanks go to Richard Hart senior in film studies at Brooklyn College for his invaluable help in reviewing the film and revealing technical aspects of the process. First Edition. Not Bound. Very Good. No Publisher Paperback books
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EXTRA! ALASKA FORUM
Rampart Ak 1901. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Each page printed in four columns. Folio. Misfolded and neatly split along the center vertical fold with resulting large margin in first leaf. Tiny closed edge tear old tideline in upper margin of first leaf evenly toned. About very good. The extremely rare extra issue of the ALASKA FORUM printed entirely as a promotional publication to attract miners to Rampart Alaska during the gold rush. The four pages of the EXTRA include various reports of the fabulous finds in the area of Rampart "on the Yukon River in American territory about mid way between St. Michaels and Dawson City or approximately one thousand miles from each." Headlines include news such as "A New Eldorado" "Richer than Ever" "Bench Diggings" and "Paystreak is Located." Additional articles concern areas overlooked in the past opportunities for quartz prospectors the need for machinery capital and summer mining "Rampart No Longer A Winter Camp Exclusively - More Summer Work Than Ever Before." <br> <br> Clearly published to promote mining and by extension economic development in Rampart and the surrounding region the column-long editorial on page 2 states: <br> <br> "It is the intention of the publishers of the ALASKA FORUM by means of this special issue to bring to the attention of people in the Eastern states the claim of Rampart City Alaska as the gold mining center of this Territory. To that end thousands of copies of the FORUM are being distributed over New England and the Eastern states. We believe and we are backing that belief with good money that the growth of this town cannot fail to be rapid once capitalists and others are led to appreciate the unrivalled advantages Rampart offers to investor and wage earner alike. With the growth of the town will come the no less certain growth of this FORUM and therein we find justification for this issue." <br> <br> While the exact number of copies printed of this EXTRA is not known we have been able to locate only two other copies of this Sept. 1 1901 special issue at the Beinecke Library and the DeGolyer Library. Printed between Sept. 27 1900 and Aug. 4 1906 few copies of any issue of ALASKA FORUM have survived. Of the ten locations listed in OCLC four libraries including all three Alaska institutions hold only microfilm sets. The University of Washington holds twenty individual issues from 1904 and 1905 NYPL has issues from 1905 Denver Public Library has a single issue from 1905 the American Antiquarian Society holds just the Sept. 25 1900 issue and the Beinecke holds an additional single issue from 1901. <br> <br> A remarkable surviving promotional publication from the Alaskan gold rush. OCLC 22038311 Alaska Forum 1900-1906 ref. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM54818
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Fairbanks and Vicinity. Telephone Directory. April 1950 cover title
Fairbanks: Jessen's Weekly 1950. About very good. 501271pp. Original grey printed wrappers stapled. Light vertical crease faintly dampstained. Faint dampstaining to upper corner of text otherwise clean internally. Telephone directory for Fairbanks including a residential and business section. The classified section includes numerous ads for local businesses. Jessen's Weekly unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2015
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GATES OF THE ARCTIC NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE ENVIRONMENTAL OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS OF MINING EFFECTS
June 1983. Denver Service Center National Park Service Department of the Interior. Hardcover. 4to. 163pp. photo illustrations wraps. In hardcover case with pocket containing 6 very large foldout maps of Mining Claims in the area showing mining camps landing strips and placer claims. Numbers and name of depository library on front cover. VG. Quite Scarce. . hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : a51467
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. JANUARY 7 1898. H.R. 5975.A BILL EXTENDING THE HOMESTEAD LAWS AND PROVIDING FOR RIGHT OF WAY FOR RAILROADS IN THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
55th Cong. 2d. Sess. Washington 1898. 5 1 pp.with EIGHT OTHER BILLS ON 5975 DURING THIS SESSION through its House Passage in March 1898. Quarto bound together in new plain wrappers. Institutional stamps some blank edge chipping Good. Extending the homestead laws to Alaska and creating easements for railroads and the mode of obtaining them. unknown
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Alaska
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. JANUARY 7 1898. H.R. 5975.A BILL EXTENDING THE HOMESTEAD LAWS AND PROVIDING FOR RIGHT OF WAY FOR RAILROADS IN THE DISTRICT OF ALASKA AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
55th Cong. 2d. Sess. Washington 1898. 5 1 pp.with EIGHT OTHER BILLS ON 5975 DURING THIS SESSION through its House Passage in March 1898. Quarto bound together in new plain wrappers. Institutional stamps some blank edge chipping Good. Extending the homestead laws to Alaska and creating easements for railroads and the mode of obtaining them. unknown books
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Juneau - Douglas Telephone Directory. July 1959 cover title
Juneau 1959. About very good. 7624pp. plus one leaf of plates. Original printed wrappers stapled. Some soiling and wear later paper labels on spine rear cover with closed tear. Some minor soiling and wear. Telephone directory for Juneau Alaska featuring both an alphabetical and yellow pages listing. Also includes a listing for the town of Douglas located just across the Gastineau Channel from Juneau. With ads for local businesses as well as a flashy full-page ad for PanAm flights to Seattle. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2018
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Alaska
Juneau - Douglas Telephone Directory. June 1958 cover title
Juneau 1958. Good. 7620pp. plus one leaf of plates. Original printed wrappers stapled. Some soiling and wear contemporary mailing labels on front cover. Some minor soiling and wear final leaf with closed tear. Telephone directory for Juneau Alaska featuring both an alphabetical and yellow pages listing. Also includes a listing for the town of Douglas located just across the Gastineau Channel from Juneau. With ads for local businesses as well as a flashy full-page ad for PanAm flights to Seattle. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2017
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ALASKA
Klondike: The Chicago Record's Book For Gold Seekers
Chicago Monroe Book Company 1897. Thick 8vo. Profusely illustrated; 12 maps; 36 b/w illustrations. Original tan pictorial cloth stamped in brown black and yellow rubbed; spine faded. Very good. 555 pages 5 pages of publisher's advertisements at end. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. [Chicago] Monroe Book Company [1897]. hardcover books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 305831
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Alaska
Manuscript diary of a yachting and bear-hunting trip to Alaska inscribed at the head of the first page: "Just a Shooting Trip to Alaska & a few of my comic friends" and signed E.F. Hutton May 9 1934
Aboard the Hussar Washington Alaska etc. 1934. 97 pp. profusely illustrated with dozens of snapshots newspaper clippings and a map of coastal Alaska. 1 vols. 4to. Full light brown morocco gilt upper board with yachting pennant of the Yacht Hussar onlays in red blue and gold within gilt fillet border with floral corner ornaments board edges and dentelles gilt a.e.g. by James MacDonald Co. A few scuffmarks at extremities else fine. 97 pp. profusely illustrated with dozens of snapshots newspaper clippings and a map of coastal Alaska. 1 vols. 4to. "Just a shooting trip in Alaska": Signed by E.F. Hutton. Manuscript diary in a secretarial hand or perhaps by Hutton's wife Marjorie Merriwether Post but signed by each of the member of the travelling party of a 1934 cruise of Edward F. Hutton's 320-foot yacht Hussar along Alaskan coastal waters to hunt bear largely around the islands near Juneau. The party included Hutton his wife and daughter movie producer Hal Roach and wife Marguerite Ernest H. Rice and wife Miriam 'war ace' Dave McCullough and others. Roach had lived in Valdez and Fairbanks for 2 years early in his career. <br/><br/>In all besides good eating and drinking deck games and other fun on board the group saw 76 black bear and 59 brown bear on the excursion even bringing a cub on board. The trip was cut short however when McCullough was seriously wounded by one of the guides in a shooting accident. unknown books
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PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. ALL ABOUT ALASKA. ISSUED.1890
San Francisco 1890. 63pp. Illus. Tables. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor chipping and a couple of tiny repaired tears to wrappers. Very good. Scarce early promotional from the Pacific Coast Steamship Company after the first of 1887 discussing topography industry agriculture with diagrams of steamships available for passage namely deck plans of the "Queen" "City of Topeka" and "George W. Elder." An attractive engraving of the Hotel Ramona San Luis Obispo adorns the back cover. TOURVILLE 3449. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : WRCAM52358
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President Andrew Johnson’s Copy of “New-York Daily Tribune†Detailing Proposed Regulations for Alaska
<p>This copy is stamped "THE PRESIDENT" at the top of the front page indicating it belonged to President Andrew Johnson. The President would have read this copy of the act before Congress submitted it to him with some amendments on July 25. The report uses the early variant spelling of "Aliaska" for the territory and peninsula.</p> <b>ALASKA.</b>Newspaper. <i>New-York Tribune</i> July 17 1868. Featuring the terms of the "Aliaska" Bill as passed by the Senate. Copy belonging to President Andrew Johnson. New York: Horace Greeley. 8 pp. 18 x 23¾ in.<p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Excerpts:</b></p><p>"<i>Be it enacted &c. That the laws of the United States relating to customs commerce and navigation be and the same are hereby extended to and over all the mainland islands and waters of the territory ceded to the United States by the Emperor of Russia.</i>" p1/c2</p><p>"<i>And be it further enacted that all the said territory with its ports harbors bays rivers and waters shall constitute a customs collection district to be called 'The District of Aliaska' for which said district a port of entry shall be established at some convenient point to be designated by the President at or near the town of Sitka or New-Archangel and a Collector of Customs shall be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate who shall reside at said port of entry and who shall receive an annual salary of $2500.</i>" p1/c2</p><p>"<i>That the President shall have the power to restrict and regulate or to prohibit the importation or use of firearms ammunition and distilled spirits into and within said territory.</i>" p1/c2</p><p>"<i>That until otherwise provided by law the Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of the President shall have power to prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem proper for the preservation of fur-bearing animals from indiscriminate destruction provided that no special permits shall be granted under this act.</i>" p1/c2</p><p><b>Historical Background</b></p><p>After suffering defeat at the hands of the British and the French in the Crimean War of 1853-1856 Russia feared losing the Alaskan territory in some future conflict. In an effort to protect Russian interests Tsar Alexander II 1818-1881 determined to sell Alaska. After offering it in 1859 to the United Kingdom Russia negotiated a sale to the United States finalized in 1867. At the time the territory primarily offered fur trading and some natural resources. Americans generally supported the purchase and believed it enhanced American interests in the Pacific though some critics labeled it "Seward's Folly" after Secretary of State William H. Seward who had negotiated the purchase for the United States. Most newspaper editors especially those in California were enthusiastic about the purchase. Notable among the critics was Horace Greeley the editor of this newspaper and a long-time opponent of Seward. The value of the new territory increased dramatically with the discovery of gold fields in 1896.</p><p>The Senate ratified the Treaty with Russia on April 9 1867 by a vote of 37 to 2. On July 14 1868 the House of Representatives passed a resolution appropriating the $7.2 million necessary to purchase Alaska less than two cents per acre and the Senate approved the resolution with amendments. The House refused the amendments and the resolution went to a committee. The House passed the resolution as revised by the conference committee on July 23 and the Senate passed it the following day.</p><p>Meanwhile on July 15 Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan introduced "An Act to extend the Laws of the United States relating to the Customs Commerce and Navigation over the Territory ceded to the United States by Russia to establish a Collection District therein and for other Purposes" and the Senate passed it on July 16. In the House Representative Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois proposed amendments on July 25 and the House agreed to them. The Senate disagreed with the amendments and this bill went also to a conference committee where the Senate receded from its opposition and the bill passed. President Johnson approved and signed both the joint resolution and the act on July 27 1868.</p><p>In 1870 Congress followed up its concerns about preserving fur-bearing animals expressed in this law with "An Act to prevent the Extermination of Fur-bearing Animals in Alaska" aimed directly at regulating the killing of fur-bearing seals on Saint Paul and Saint George Islands off the western coast of Alaska north of the Aleutian Islands.</p><p><b>Additional Content</b></p><p>This issue also includes the Senate confirmation of William M. Evarts 1818-1901 as Attorney General p1/c2 p5/c4; proceedings of Congress including Senate discussion of this bill p1/c3-4; a letter from a special correspondent describing Sitka Alaska p2/c2-3; an editorial nomination of Thomas A. R. Nelson of Tennessee as Secretary of State to succeed William H. Seward "<i>now that Mr. Seward has succeeded in buying Aliaska</i>" p4/c5-6; "base ball" and cricket scores p5/c5; and a report on dozens of deaths from sunstroke during two-week heat wave especially among children p8/c1-3.</p><p><b><i>New-York Tribune</i></b> 1841-1924 was established as a daily newspaper in 1841 by Horace Greeley 1811-1872. By the 1850s it reached a circulation of 200000 copies making it the largest daily newspaper in New York City at the time. Greeley also published weekly and semi-weekly issues of the <i>Tribune</i> through much of his tenure. The <i>New-York Tribune</i>became the dominant Whig and then Republican newspaper in the United States helping to shape public opinion especially as other newspapers often copied its articles and editorials. It was one of the first newspapers in the Union to send reporters and correspondents to cover the military campaigns of the Civil War. Greeley used his newspaper to support many reforms including abolitionism pacifism socialism for a time and feminism. After Greeley's failed campaign as the Liberal Republican candidate for President Whitelaw Reid 1837-1912 assumed control of the <i>Tribune</i> until his death. His son Ogden Mills Reid 1882-1947 acquired the <i>New York Herald</i> and merged the newspapers in 1924.</p><p><b>Condition</b></p><p>Typical folds and light foxing few slight tears at some of the outer margins and appears to have been bound in a book at one point or someone reinforced the outer fold.</p> books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 25042
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Alaska
Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow Alaska in Reponse to the Resolution of the House of Representatives of December 11 1884
Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1885. First edition. Numerous plates including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Three-quarters red morocco. Spine largely perished boards detached but present. Internally Fine. First edition. Numerous plates including 3 color lithographs and 10 phototype plates. 695 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Government Printing Office unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 232938
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Alaska
Telephone Directory. Ketchikan Alaska May 1938 cover title
Ketchikan 1938. Very good plus. 56pp. Original brown printed wrappers. Minor wear. Internally clean. Telephone directory for Ketchikan Alaska located in the far southern tip of the state. At the time Ketchikan was a city of around 4000 people and the ads in the present directory display a wide array of services for the area. These include a printing company a radio station a brewery and a Piggly Wiggly. In addition to telephone listings the directory also includes information on public utility rates. An ephemeral item. unknown books
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2014
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The Laws Of Alaska: Embracing The Penal Code The Code Of Criminal Procedure The Political Code The Code Of Civil Procedure And The Civil Code With The Treaty Of Cession And All Acts And Parts Of Acts Relating To The District Annotated With
Hardback. New. hardcover
Referenz des Buchhändlers : B9781016011549 ISBN : 1016011547 9781016011549
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Alaska
The Laws Of Alaska: Embracing The Penal Code The Code Of Criminal Procedure The Political Code The Code Of Civil Procedure And The Civil Code With The Treaty Of Cession And All Acts And Parts Of Acts Relating To The District Annotated With
like new. unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : 45388030 ISBN : 1016011547 9781016011549
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Alaska
To Extend the Coal-Land Laws ton Alaska. Mr. Nelson from the Committee on Public Lands submitted the following Report . 58th Congress 2d Session SR 1188
Washington: 1904. 6 pp disbound in self wrappers. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Washington: unknown
Referenz des Buchhändlers : ZB460975
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