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Melton P.
La penisola di Alaska
Composizione di nove vignette: 1. Canale di Portland - 2. Stazione astronomica - 3. Foce del fiume Speel - 4. Casa e Totem di un capo tribù - 5. Valle del fiume Salmon - 6. Braccio principale di Port Suettisham - 7. Vapore tra i banchi di ghiaccio - 8. Torrente North Arm - 9. Città di Juneau. Testo al retro
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Members of Alaska Crippled Children's Association
Out of Alaska's Kitchens
Anchorage Alaska: Alaska Crippled Children's Association. Good. 1948. Second Printing. Plastic Comb Binding. Includes 635 recipes selected from thousands of submissions. 248 3 pp. Several color illustrations. Average wear for a cookbook of this vintage. Minimal markings. A sound example of this wonderful piece of Alaskan epicurean history. Tourville 58 Haycox p.7. ; 8vo . Alaska Crippled Children's Association unknown
Riferimento per il libraio : 615j1278
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MENZEL, B.:
Dans la toundra de l’Alaska. La mission morave parmi les Esquimaux de l’Alaska. 1885-1935.
Paris/ Neuchâtel. Delachaux & Niestlé, 1938, in-8vo, 109 p., brochure originale.
Riferimento per il libraio : 89443aaf
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Michèle Demai
ALASKA DREAM. De Paris à la dernière Frontière.
2000 / 309 pages. Broché. Editions Glénat.
Riferimento per il libraio : VOY266M
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Michener, James A
Alaska
Bergisch Gladnbach, Bastei Lübbe Verlag, ohne Angaben. 1299 Seiten , 19 cm, kartoniert
Riferimento per il libraio : 43597
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Michener, James A
Alaska. [Roman].
Düsseldorf, Wien, New York, ECON Verlag, 1989. 24 cm, 910 Seiten, moosgrüner Pappband, Karten auf den Vorsätzen, Original-Schutzumschlag. Schutzumschlag berieben und leicht gerändert, private Widmung auf Titelblatt, gut erhalten.
Riferimento per il libraio : 23959AB
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MICHENER, James A.
Alaska.
fort volume in-8, 936 pp., carte, broché, couvertu Bel exemplaire. [CA27/7]
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MILLS Stephen E.
Arctic War Planes. Alaska Aviation of WWII. A Pictorial History of Bush Flying with the Military in the Defense of Alaska and North America. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and photographs in the text; blue boards, yellow cloth back lettered in blue, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
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Minter, Roy; Berton, Pierre (introduction)
The White Pass : Gateway to the Klondike
394 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Many great black and white photographic plates. "The epic northern adventure of the men who rushed for gold, the workers who toiled in winter storms and thawing muck carving the grade and laying rail, and the ingenious characters who dreamed, schemed, promoted, and finally built the White Pass and Yukon Railway." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy of this informative work. Book
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Moffit, Fred H
The Broad Pass region, Alaska. With sections on quaternary deposits, igneous rocks and glaciation by Joseph E. Pogue. (=Bulletin / United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior ; No 608)
Washington, DC, Gov. Print. Off, 1915. original Broschur, gr.-8? 80 S., VII Taf. : Ill., graph. Darst., Kt../ 80 p. illus., plates (part fold.) 2 fold. maps (in pocket). / Bibliothekstempel / bibliotheekstempel / cachet de biblioth?que / librarystamp
Riferimento per il libraio : GC10-241
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Molina, Bruce; Alaska Geographic Association [Creator]
Glaciers of Alaska Alaska Geographic
Alaska Geographic Society 2001-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alaska Geographic Society paperback
Riferimento per il libraio : Q-1566610559 ISBN : 1566610559 9781566610551
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MOORREES, C.F.A
The Aleut dentition. A correlative study of dental characteristics in an eskimoid people.
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1957. Large-8vo. 10 pp., 1 leaf, 196 pp. with 41 text-figures and numerous tables. Orig. cloth with gilt spine title in orig. cloth (dj a little browned and with some marginal wear, foot of spine slightly rubbed).
Riferimento per il libraio : 1303566
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Morgan, Edward E. P.
GOD'S LOADED DICE Alaska 1897-1930
Some pages uncut. Half-title page torn open. Spine faded ; Off to Alaska to search for gold! Adventures in the Klondike, the Yukon, etc. Limited edition of 1000, of which this is # 273 SIGNED by author Morgan; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 298 pages
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Moser, J(efferson) F(ranklin) - E. K. Moore - D. H. Jarvis
Alaska ... Bulletin No. 37, 38, 39 u. 40 in 1 Band.
Washinton, Government Printing Office, 1899. 4°. Mit 12 mehrf. gef. Karten, 3 Tafeln u. zahlr. Textabbildungen. SS. 111-204. Hln. d. Zt. (etw. fleckig, beschabt u. bestoßen).
Riferimento per il libraio : R33876
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Muir, John [Dog Story] [Alaska]
Stickeen
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. 73pp. Duodecimo 19 cm Light brown cloth over boards. Edges of spine and boards a bit dinged. Underlying boards peeking through at corners. Text block cracked a few times. Muir's classic short memoir recounting a treacherous 1880 Alaskan glacier crossing with a dog named Stickeen. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 71174
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Muir, John
Travels in Alaska The John Muir library
274pp. 21 cm. Paperback Very good condition
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MULLER Gerhard Friedrich
Bering's voyages : The reports from Russia. Planches dans le texte. Translated, with commentary by Carol Urness.
Broché. 221 pages.
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Mulltiple Contributors
Frontier Times Magazine: July 1973 *SPECIAL INDIAN ISSUE*
Features: Accursed and frightful Potter's Point - a look at the forerunners, and many times the sires of the later colorful and often dangerous people who made the Old West famous; Mud Glacier Gold - Marcum's lost gold in Alaska; Village of my red brother - Mormon Indian missionaries; Seattle's Little-known Dymano - Hans Pederson and the early development of Seattle; Battle of Prairie Dog Creek; The Solid Muldoon; Ghostly Fort Dilts; Coal Oil Jimmy's Gang; Geronimo's Long Debt for a Pony - Jimmy Stevens; Missouri Scout - Greyson Welsh; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
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American Indian Art Magazine, Autumn 2005
128 pages. Features: A Tale of Two Carvers - The Rain Wall Screen of the Whale House, Klukwan, Alaska; Native Views - Influences of Modern Culture Aboard Artrain USA; "The Greatest Individual Hunter of Material in the North" - Collecting in Alaska, Canada and Chukotka with Captain Joseph-Fidele Bernard; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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American Indian Art Magazine, Spring 2002
104 pages. Features: Inuguat, Iinrut, Uyat-Llu - Yup'ik Dolls, Amulets and Human Figures; Nushagak Baskets - A case study in Fusion; Shishmaref - Whalebone Carving in an Inupiaq Village; Alaska Native Doll Makers; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Canadian Merchant Service Guild - 1939 Annual (Yearbook)
32 pages. Index. Index of advertisers. Report of President, Captain Jas. W. Watt; Photos of five guild officials; Pen Picture of a typical American Sailor - an article by Meyer Berger from a New York paper; Port of Vancouver, B.C.; Steamboat Round the Bend, by H.L. Sacret - working on the Mackenzie River; Forty Years Ago on the B.C. Coast; Captain Oliver Williams - Coast Superintendant; Great photo of Union Bay coaling berths; Steam is Far From Finished; Jemmy Jones, Mariner Extraordinary. Union Steamships link the Coast Communities of British Columbia; Norwegian Honour for British Crew - the SS. Chelohsin; Captain Thomas Rippon - Respected Brother Passes; Vancouver Built - SS. Alaska, Hull No. 1 of the Coughlan Yards of False Creek; Whence Came the McMillans - a man goes overboard in October 1900; Captain Ernie Landheim Joins Pilots; Great photo of the large (Searle?) Grain Elevator on Fraser River, New Westminster; There Was Money in Privateering - The Harmsworth Cup; Shipmasters who became Shipowners; Yo Ho and a Bottle of Rum; Obituaries. Average external wear and soiling. Binding intact. A sound copy. An informative and engaging read. Book
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Colliers, The National Weekly Magazine: May 30, 1936
Features: Freedom's Sting - Brown Brothers' burden - Philippine Independence (Jim Marshall); The Golden Spoon - Gold mining for live in Alaska (Corey Ford); A Little Code - Life and letters of an outfielder (Kyle Chrichton); Cross Purposes - Love will find a way (Elisabeth Sanxay Holding); All the Answers, by James Aswell; The Loudest Radical - Zioncheck makes himself audible (George Creel); The Prodical Nurse, Part II - In search of excitement (Teresa Hyde Phillips); Under Pressure, Part VIII - Blackadder's Design (George Agnew Chamberlain); Late Winner - Wilmer Allison, white hope for the Davis Cup (John R. Tunis); Texas Roundup - High, wide and handsome centennial (Owen P. White); The Human Touch - No reason why heroes shouldn't look after their own interests (James B. Connolly); The Cook Gets the Last Word - Kitchen rangers (Betty Thornley Suart); Keep up with the world - Fosterized facts (Freling Foster). Super colour centerfold featuring the Terraplane. Lovely colour Chevrolet ad inside back cover. Average wear. Address label on front cover else unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1992
Includes the following issues from 1992: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Holiday Diving on Fiji's Matagi Island; Skookumchuck Narrows; Heron Island, Australia; Slides from Prints; Bahamas - 500 years since Columbus; Bella Bella - in Remote B.C.; Red Sea; Fate of the Falconer; The sprightly Seasprint; Floriday Keys; Bonaire; RCMP's Regina; Whidbey Island; Sea Stars; Diving the Capilano; Shoot Like a Pro; The Straits of Mackinac; MCD Strobes; Raratonga; Sherkston Quarry; Georgian Bay Wreck Dive; Luxury Diving abour Truk Agressor; Sipadan Island; Lost Cities of Micronesia; Artificial Reefs of Porteau Cove, B.C.; The Manatee; Fraser River Wreck Dive; Guanaja; Cabo San Lucas; Lake Dive; Underwater Video; The Green Sea Urchin; Scotia Cape; Cayman Connection; 'City of Vienna' in Halifax; Alaska - an exotic dive; The Cunner; Queen Charlotte Islands; Gulf Islands - B.C.'s Playground; Calabogie; Cozumel; Behind the Dolphin Smile; Ucluelet, Vancouver Island; Nova Scotia Wreck Challenge; Canada's Ice Diving; Belize Resort; Alberta's Project Habakuk; Dodd Narrows - current-swept passage in B.C.; Bristleworm. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June 1980
Features: Solar Eclipse of 1980 - scientists race totality; Devils, Quolis, Dunnarts and Thylacines - a survey of Tasmanian mammals; Journey into Northern China - impressions of a scientist; A Geologist in Alaska - John C. reed on 45 years in the boondocks; Nebraska Miocene Giant Turtle - complete skeleton reveals new species; Niger - Tenere Expedition - geographical and archeological observations; Transglobe Expedition Now in Antarctica - British explorers circling globe on polar axis; Exploring Canada's Ellice River - observing Arctic tundra flora and fauna; New support for Archeological Discovery; Malaysia-Singapore Waterway Border - United Nations Law of the Sea problems. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, September 1980
Features: South Nahanni River Valley Expedition - a canoe-and-climb journey in Canada's Northwest Territories; Exploration of Today's World; Martin and Osa Johnson - exploration was their way of life; Arnold Hauerslev-Haverlee - an unorthodox explorer; Continued Exploration of Venus; Medical Detective in Africa - solution of an explosive medical mystery in Mali; Meteorites and Man-made Satellites - when they fall to earth; Observing Marine Mammals in Alaska - students gain field experience; Goal - to Penetrate Tibet - a hazardous 19th century attempt - Mr. T.T. Cooper. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Harper's Bazar (Bazaar) Magazine, November 26, 1870 - A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction
14 pages. Contents: Vest-Casaque Walking Suit - cover illustration; Manners upon the Road - of Beams and Motes; New York Fashions - furs, pprices, sable, mink, black marten, or Alaska sable, seal sets and sacques, ermine and grebe, astrakhan sets and cloaks, fur trimmings, children's furs, fur turbans, gentlemen's furs, vest-casaques; Personal; Wroghtu guipure edgings and rosettes; Embroidered Tidy; Tapestry Lambrequin; Pen-Wiper simulating a poppy; Miss Drake's Enterprise; Burns's First Love; The Snake-Charmers; Sayings and Doings; Useful Recipes; Full-page illustration - "Nutting"; lamp mat in application and Byzantine embroidery; crochet and netted spool basket; crochet edging for children's clothing; point lace and tatted insertion; tidy in point lace and satin stitch embroidery; humor. Average wear. Missing pages 761-762. Cover-fold almost completely open. Book
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Logger's Handbook - 1973 Edition: Volume XXXIII
11" x 8.5" x 0.75". "Contains articles prepared exclusively for the Loggers Handbook together with the official proceedings of the 63rd session of the Pacific Logging Congress and the condensed reports of its six regional conferences prepared by their respective secretaries." - from title page. Articles include: Archie W. Rafter; Moving Logs in British Columbia Waters; Renewing Productivity on Forest Brush Lands; Natural and Man-Caused Slash in Headwater Streams; Precision Logging - Management of the Future Forest; A History of Railroad Logging; Effects of Logging on Small Streams in the Thorne Bay Area of Southeast Alaska; The Tango; Forestry in Austria; Logging Engineering; Intensive Management of Coastal Douglas Fir; and more. Also includes many great contemporary logging equipment advertisements. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Nice copy with illustrated boards and endpapers. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, January 2, 1950
56 pages. Cover: Staff Sargeant Lawrie Bell. Contents: Presidency: The Lull Before the Congress Storm - Harry S. Truman; Defense: The Soft 'Upper Belly' - Alaska "America's soft upper belly"; Love: It's Wonderful!; Crime: War on the Reuthers - U.A.W. (United Automobile Workers)'s Walter and Victor Reuther; Foreign Policy - 1949 and 1950; Russia: New Cast But the Same Old Show; France: Again a Crisis - Vote of Confidence in National Assembly; Indonesia: Birth of a Union; Jamaica: (William Alexander Clarke) Bustamante Blues; Middle East: The Israel-Jordan Talks; The Soviet View of the Future; Canadian Affairs: Fight Over Films - National Film Board; Medicine: Important Records - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormons) Family Pedigree Help Chart Disease; Religion: Year of Pardon - Catholic Church, Pope Pius XII Marks "the year of the great return and the great pardon"; Business: The Experts Predict a Prosperous Year for 1950, a Continued Rise, With Moderate Decline Later; The Outlook for Industry in Perspective, Top Business Executives Give Their View; Bounceback of '49 - A Year-End Review; Science: (Albert) Einstein's Long-Awaited Field Theory; Basketball: (Bob) Cousy and the Crusaders; The Bullet-Biter - Leo Durocher; and Perspective: On Dissenting From Dissenters. Color Budweiser ad on back cover. Binding sound. Small mailing label bottom right front cover. Average wear. Contents clean and unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Nutshell News Magazine - For the Complete Miniatures Hobbyist, July 1986 - Minikins from Alaska / Garden Landscaping
Features: Sandy Shumway - Miniaturist of the Month; English History in Miniature; America's First Ladies (1886-1900); Cinema Palaces; Judy Beals' - artisan update; Joan and Bill Helton - a happy harmony of talents; Portraiture in Miniature - Pauline Chamness and Dorothy Hoskins interpret the Alaskan frontier with their work; Len and Kathy Schiada - Capturing the design of the Victorian era; Marilyn Taylor's Crafty Concoctions; DIY - A Country Christmas; Joann's Nook for Santa; Mary's Menus - Holiday Favorites; Begin your tinsmithing technique in miniature with this kitchen scoop; Growing Landscapes - a flexible foundation landscaping design for your miniature yard; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality copy. Magazine
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Railway & Marine News, A Semi-Monthly Publication Devoted to Pacific Coast Transportation Interests, April 15, 1911, Vol. IX, No. 7 - Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet
Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
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Railway Carmen's Journal (Magazine), December (Dec.) 1969, Vol. LXXIV, No. 12 - Winter on the Alaska Railroad
Pages 267-290. Features: Progress on the Alaska Railroad; Report on the AFL-CIO Convention; Gov. Rockefeller Thanks Lodge 886; Robert Hewitt Passes at 83; O.P. Channell Jr. Named to R.E.D.; Presenting Case on H.R. 13300; Christmas Dinner in Early Canada; List of Approved Attorneys; and more. Printed upon glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Sea Breezes - The Magazine of Ships and the Sea: October 1979
Features: Last of the Moss Liners; P.S.N.C. Liner "Reina del Pacifico" of 1931; Flags and Funnels - a motley crew; Ferry Scene - Harwich Circuit; Tractor Tugs for Cory; The Mersey Sound; Capt. Enrique Pedro Montemayor and the "Libertad"; Model Steamer Club of Glasgow; Greek Passenger Shipping in 1978-79 - Part II; Voyage to Alaska. Book
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The Canadian Magazine, May 30, 1970 *HOW THE FASHION INDUSTRY BOSSES YOU AROUND*
Features: The fashion industry has you under heel; The RCMP - Why the mounties have red faces - their image has been slipping; Onward to Alaska - up the Alaska Highway to the Yukon; The Road to Murder - Part 3 of 3 of the story of the murders of Gerry MacDonald and Ken Vallee on a road near Almonte; Stop killing Canada - letters from Canadians about their environment; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Please note that page 19 is missing - it appears to have been a story about a New York Met baseball player. Nice colour International pickup ad on back cover. Book
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The Daily Colonist, Sunday August 19, 1934, Victoria, British Columbia Newspaper
This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 11-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Kidnapping of John S. Labatt; many international stories; Saanich will hold 65th annual fair in September; Cameron Lake photo; Photo of Father Bernard R. Hubbard mountain climbing in Alaska; Editorial page; Large ad for Standard Furniture Co.; Razing of main classroom structure of Corrig College in Victoria; Vacation page; photo of Dr. William Beebe and his steel diving ball; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
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The Daily Colonist, Tuesday September 25, 1934, Victoria, British Columbia Newspaper
This listing consists of pages 1-6 and 13-18 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents include: Lindbergh kidnapping news; Federal by-election results; Optimistic B.C. mining stats; Nome Alaska razed by fire; Editorial page; Ada Mackenzie medalist in Canadian golf; Business page; Cartoon page; two pages of classified ads; David Spencer Limited ads; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear. Above-average soiling, especially to back page. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: July 1995
Articles: The North Pacific Campaign in Perspective; The Origins of British Whaling - Pre-1750 English and Scottish Involvement in the Northern Whale Fishery; We Have Missed Another Great Opportunity - G.G. McGeer, Alaska, and the Politics of Failed Advocacy; plus numerous book reviews. Three book reviews circled in Table of Contents else clean with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1997
Articles: The Impact of German Technology on the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 19442-1943; The Seamen's Union, the National Maritime Board and Firemen - Labour management in the British Mercantile Marine; The Defence of Alaska Must Remain a Primary Concern of the United States - Canada and the North Pacific, May-June 1942; Management of the Port of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies, during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Government and Port Administration in Japan in the aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Saturday Evening Post, October 7, 1961 *CHILDHOOD CANCER*
Features: Speaking Out - in defense of the cocktail party; Newmarket (England) - Horsiest Town in the World; People on the Way Up - John Hause, Pat Hutar, Colonel Wesley Posvar, Patty Duke; What is Life Made Of? - Sir Lawrence Bragg; Battling Bishop - James A. Pike; 3-page colour centerfold for the 1962 Ford Mercurys; Nice colour Pepsi ad; My Own Story - Casey Stengel (part 1 of 2); General of Outer Space - Bernard Adolf Schriever bucked conservative superiors and risked his career to help close the missile gap; HiJack - Robbery and Murder on the Alaska Highway (Part 2 of 2); What Parents Should Know about Childhood Cancer; William F. Dawson - a one man Peace Corps. Above-average wear. Long opening along coverfold. Unmarked. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, March 1956 - Australian Edition
Features: Two against the ocean, including a polio victim; White Man Fire-Walker - Methodist Missionary The Rev. Eric. L. Robinson; Pilot's 300 Crashes into Balloon Cables - continuing 'The Sky's No Limit," the first authentic story of the test pilots; The Mongoose - killer of Cobras; I Joined the Rush for Uranium - The Colorado Plateau; Rendezvous with Maneaters - Adventurer's Paradise Continued; Captured by Chinese Pirates - the steamer Ningpo; Below Zero Road - The Alaska Highway; The Trail of Crab Oonaka; Search for the Whooping Crane - trailing two wild birds for over 2,000 miles; We found unknown mountains - Nepalese adventures; The Beads of Assa - Somali adventure; Up-Helly-A - Norse Festival; and more. Backstrip missing; Covers partially loose. Still a worthy copy. Book
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The Wide World Magazine, May 1955 - Australian Edition
Features: Dead Men's Diggings - Diamon seekers in British Guiana; Hunting down the Black Jack Gang in the South-West United States (Part 2); Bush Pilots of the Northlands - the far north of Canada and Alaska - photos; The Golden Chain - a delicious story from Malaya by a Quantas engineer; Unlucky Ship - the Ecola; The Silent Killer - a python story; Phases of Life from all over the world - kilometre eight in Venezuela; Stretton's Luck - Gold Prospecting in Sokoto, Nigeria; and more. Somewhat above-average wear. Front cover partially loose. A worthy copy. Book
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Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), July 27, 1970: Alaska - Last Chance for a Last Frontier
64 pages. Features: Cover photo Nome, Alaska resident Alfred Nakak; The Anik Satellite - a hard re-entry; Multitude of strikes at the Canadian Post Office; British Columbia's Mediation Act and Labour; Stuart (Stu) Griffiths of Bushnell Communications; Chicago - Turning Against the Gangs; Richard L. Barkley - the respectable rioter; Middle East - Between Hope and Menace; Nigeria - The Unconquerable Ibos; Alaska - The Great Land of Boom or Doom - article with six pages of great color photos; The Vanishing World of trapper Joe Delia; Review of movie "Joe" starring Peter Boyle; Passing of Dr. Eric Berne, George V. Allen, John J. Anthony, Lieut. General Leslie R. Groves and L. Wolf Gilbert; Kirk Kerkorian's Cold Streak; VD - a national emergency; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
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Time Magazine, July 11, 1969 - The Sex Explosion
82 pages. Features: Harry Shuler Dent; An ABM Primer; Alaska Wildfires; The impoverished Havasupai tribe; Las Vegas reaches a new pinnacle of preposterousnous; Rockefeller's tour of Central and South America; The Lesson of Ben Het in Vietnam; Land for South Vietnam's peasants; Ad for the VW Squareback sedan; Heroin deaths in NYC; Oriole pitcher Dave McNally; Are courts more severe with black defendants; Reinforcement Therapy; Singer Tom Jones - article with photo; The Jackson brothers hog hollering in Spivery's Corner NC; Diagram illustrates bioaccumulation of toxins; The Art of Henry Tanner; Sex as a Spectator Sport - changing sexual attitudes in the U.S.; Conversations on the new Eroticism - article which includes photo of Billy Graham in Times Square smut shop; Article on bank credit cards; Copycat ads; Oakland Raider Art Powell starts successful business Black & Brown Trading Stamp Co.; and much more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: April 1963
Features: D&RGW 3600's out of Minturn - nice photos and article; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Night photo of Chicago & Elgin No. 320 with text; The Finest Train in the World - the short-lived Golden Gate Special - article with fine photos; Three photos of the Hillcrest Lumber Company No. 10 Climax running between Honeymoon Bay, Mesatchie Lake, and the Canadian National-Esquimalt & Nanaimo Interchange at Lake Cowichan, B.C.; Trains Go to Alaska - 3 - Uncle Sam's Railroad Experiment - what happened because land grants were taboo; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: February 1963
Features: The BIG story - how to fill empty cars - unless rates are revised, the industry may expire - long article; Winter over White Pass; America's Success Railroad; Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; Trains Go to Alaska - 1 - Super photos, text and map; Stuart Saunders and his money making machine - 4 years at the throttle of Norfold & Western (N&W) - long article with photos; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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Trains - The Magazine of Railroading: May 1963
Features: Railroad News Photos; Steam News Photos; What a railroad does best - Louisville & Nashville's coal moving operation between Paradise (on the Green River in western Kentucky) and Widow's Creek (on the Tennessee River in Northern Alabama) - text, photos and map; A Tale of Two Freight Trains - Extra 3045 North and No. 75 - long article with photos and map; photo section; Trains Go to Alaska - 4 - Cold War Railroading - how Khrushchev holds down the Alaska Railroad's operating ratio; The Longest Short Line in the Smallest State - The Narragansett Pier Railroad; and more. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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True West Magazine, April 1975
Features: "Rascals" and Rangers - hot blood courses through the coal veins at Thurber, Texas; Lost Gold at Robbers Roost; The Private War of Henson Wiseman; Localisms and Familyisms - Hillfold talk in the Rockies; Wild Old Days!; The Fatal Quart of Strawberries - Patrick S. Coughlin; Ticket Scalpin' on the Railroad; Great Falls, Montana - First Black Cowboy, Walter Jackson; Under the Devil's Blanket - the most dangerous mail route in the world in Alaska; The Benevolent Ghost - Oakalla, Texas; Frying Pan Charlie - Charles Alzamora; Pima County, Arizona Territory. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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WoodenBoat (Wooden Boat), May / June 1984, Number 58 - The Magazine for Wooden Boat Owners, Builders and Designers
164 pages. Features: Interview with Larry Dahlmer; ELLY - a Swedish treasure in America; A New Kag - building a trunnel-fastened traditional Swedish workboat; Sardine Carriers - Part I; AMARETTO - from the log of an old sardine carrier still earning her way; The Kodiak (Alaska) Kayak; The Hooper Bay Kayak - the last outpost of the authentic native kayak; Sailing a Tancook Whaler - one of the handiest gaff schooners afloat; Sophisticated wooden shipbuilding is alive and well in Wisconsin; The Wizzard of Speed - Spud Rowsell and his performance dinghies. Bending SPARTAN's frames - a scientific approach to steam-bending large frames. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
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MURIE, Olaus & Margaret:
Wapiti Wilderness.
New-York, Alfred. A. Knopf, 1966, in-8vo, 302 p., ill., + photogr. plates, small legacy-stamp Dr. Guggisberg, orig. cloth, with DJ, tear in the back-cover jacket no loss, very good copy.
Riferimento per il libraio : 59677aaf
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Murie, Adolph; Murie, Olaus J.
A Naturalist in Alaska
reprint of the 1961 ed. Soft Cover. Fine , as new. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 302 pp.illustrated by drawings
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Murray Cromwell Morgan; Rosa Morgan
South on the Sound: An illustrated history of Tacoma and Pierce County
Book is in excellent condition, in white cloth boards. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind except for "Christmas 1987" on title page. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 199 pages on glossy paper.
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