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1964 · ref. 10449 — Anchorage Alaska: Ken Wray's Print Shop 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Minimal shelf/edge wear two corners gentled bumped else tight bright and unmarred; light shelf/edge wear small chip at top of Vol. 2 DJ else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards gilt lettering frontispiece. Small 4to. 1092pp Vol 2 ends at 466. Illus. b/w plates. Numbered limited edition this being 691 of 1000. Both volumes signed by the author. The two volumes contain approximately 2100 photographs and line drawings. A very scarce and sought after pictorial history of events surrounding the Alaska Railroad. Created funded and operated by the federal government the volumes document the story of the railroad from preliminary surveys to the period of construction through the period of neglect through two world wars reconstruction modernization etc.through 1964. A handsome set. Ken Wray's Print Shop hardcover books