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1936354284Seattle: Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co 1936. 8pp. plus folding map. Original printed pictorial wrappers. Both wrappers detached. Internally clean. Very good. 8pp. plus folding map. Prospectus of this well-financed Alaskan mining company with numerous statistics regarding cost of operation and potential yield. The map perfectly traced from the original illustrates the Bluff Quartz claims region in which the company sought to operate. An interesting overview of this large-scale operation. Not in Tourville nor on OCLC. Alaska Homestake Gold Mining Co unknown
192512214Seattle: Alaska Steamship Co. ; Alaska Railroad. Near Fine. 1925 1928-. Ephemera. All approximately 9 X 8.5" unfolded. Alaska Copper Rivers is a single sheet that fold out to a 27 x 32" color map. All illustrated with black & white photographs; all but White Pass & Yukon Route with maps. Also including ship diagrams sailing schedules itineraries travel advice etc. Copper Rivers with handstamp of Crabtree's Travel Office Berkeley Cal. On front cover. Alaska Steamsip 1925 with handstamp of Peck-Judah front cover. . Alaska Steamship Co. ; Alaska Railroad unknown
192773741Juneau: Alaska Magazine Inc. 1927. First edition and no relation to the current Alaska Magazine. Five issues all published; Jan.-May 1927. Octavo. Continuously paginated. 282 pp. Well illustrated from photographs. In addition there are at least 50 pages of ads for local businesses in Alaska in in the fifth issue there is a folding map/directory of the businesses in Juneau. Publisher's pictorial wrappers. The whole bound in contemporary half brown pigskin over brown cloth gilt spine lettering. An excellent copy of this short-lived yet very erudite magazine.Edited by John Edward Meals this was Alaska's first attempt at an historically based magazine. Contains among many others the following contributions: The Creation of Denali Mount McKinley by Yako the Athabascam Adam by Alaska bibliographer James Wickersham; Ivan Veniaminov Innocent Metropolitan of Moscow and Kolomna by Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff; The Forests of Alaska as a Basis for Permanent Development by B. F. Heintzleman; An Alaskan Dog Derby by Micael Saxland.The editor's father Andrew Jackson Meals invented the Ditch Witcha construction tool still in use by contractors today. Andrew and his friend George Hazelett donated 350 acres to the city of Valdez so that the city could be rebuilt after the 1964 earthquake decimated the town. Alaska Magazine Inc. hardcover
1934320413Aboard 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. 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
1926320855Washington D.C.: GPO 1926. Illustrations. 5 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Illustrations. 5 vols. 8vo. Bulletin No. 2. Vegetable Growing in Alaska. 1905. Wickersham 8559. Bulletin No. 3. Haymaking at Kenai Experiment Station. 1907. Wickersham 8560. Bulletin No. 4. Production of Improved Hardy Strawberries for Alaska. 1923. Wickersham 8562. Bulletin No. 5. Eradication of Tuberculosis in Cattle at the Kodiak Experiment Station. 1924. Wickersham 8591. Bulletin No. 6. Cereal Growing in Alaska. 1926. <br/><br/> GPO unknown
1923320787Washington D.C.: GPO 1923. 30pp. Folding map plates. With: . Circular No. 1 revised. 30pp. Folding map plates. With: . Revised October 15 1923. 18pp. Folding map plates. 3 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. 30pp. Folding map plates. With: . Circular No. 1 revised. 30pp. Folding map plates. With: . Revised October 15 1923. 18pp. Folding map plates. 3 vols. 8vo. Three copies of the first three issues of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station Circular No. 1 published to "give prospective settlers in Alaska and particularly homesteaders information on subjects which will be of more or less vital interest to them." Includes sections on climate agricultural areas where to locate homesteads how to obtain land the costs involved types of crops and live stock and more. Wickersham 8561. Wickersham 8561 <br/><br/> GPO unknown
1924313772Flushing Long Island: Marion Press 1924. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. Illustrated with folding map folding view numerous photographic plates and inserted sketch maps. Pp. 103 1 colophon. 1 vols. 8vo. Original quarter brown morocco and cloth titled in gilt. Stamp of Robert Pierce on the front pastedown. Copy #X of 50 copies. Printed at the Marion Press. Inscribed on the colophon page to Thomas A. Larremore April 2/26 from the printer Frank E. Hopkins. Larremore was the bibliographer of the Marion Press. Illustrated with folding map folding view numerous photographic plates and inserted sketch maps. Pp. 103 1 colophon. 1 vols. 8vo. "A very interesting journal with sketch maps and drawings and photographs. Touches much country not before described and goats are discovered near Frances Lake ." - Phillips<br /> <br /> Streeter: Hunter's narration of his journey "to the Yukon in quest of Frances Lake" is taken from his diary. "Many things that I wrote in the field last summer read queerly today but that may be accounted for by the fact that here on Long Island I am neither tired hungry nor wet. These three things strangely influence the amateur explorer."<br /> <br /> The author thanks Charles Sheldon of Washington D.C. in the Apologia for giving him the idea to search for sheep at Frances Lake. Hunter retraced some of the 1887 explorations of George M.Dawson published in The Yukon Territory 1898 which collected acounts by Dall Dawson and Ogilvie. Streeter 3627; Phillips p. 190. Larremore The Marion Press no. 183 & pp. 150 & 160; Not in Heller [Marion Press] unknown
195274427Seattle: United States Navy 1952. First edition. Quarto typescript with one enclosure; printed on rectos only 26 leaves including 13 original photographs of scenes in Alaska 2 of which are as large as the text block. Contemporary black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Excellent. In the early 1950s there was an epidemic of Leptospirosis also known as Hemorrhagic jaundice at the Naval ports in Alaska. A U.S. Navy Epidemic Control team headed by LTJG Eugene L. Walter were sent to survey report and offer suggestion. This report is the final result of their investigationd. Leptospirosis is spread by rats so much of the report suggestion deals with ways to keep those infected rates off ships. The photographs all of scenes of Alaskan homes where the rats breed including above The Polar Bear Restaurant show a city that appears quite depressed and run down. E. L. Walter next was stationed at the Naval Hospital in Oakland and went on to become a microbiologist for the NIH. (United States Navy) hardcover
190375062London: McCorquodale 1903. First edition of this atlas map folio 16 1/4 x 27 1/2 inches. 5 sheets of British Commission maps and index map; 13 sheets of United States Commission maps Alaska boundary atlas and index map. Total of 20 maps 19 folding and 5 in color Maps are 53 x 32 inches. All but the British index map folded and backed in linen. Quarter red morocco over red cloth. Gilt Royal Seal to front board and spine. Maps mounted on linen and sectioned as issued. Portfolio case with moderate rubbing chipping to leather. Does not include the 10 cards to accompany the U.S. Commission maps seems to be common that these smaller ones are missing. Old staining to cloth. Toning and edge wear to British Index map. Slight toning and offsetting to maps. Overall a very good copy; quite scarce. [McCorquodale] hardcover
195573867Washington DC: Geological Survey 1955. Very large color wall map of Alaska on original rollers. 1 map on two sheets measuring 4 feet 3 inches by 5 feet 7 inches. Inset map of the Aleutian Islands. Scale 1:1584000.1 inch=25 miles. A remarkably attractive map in unexpectedly nice condition. Geological Survey unknown
1991227747Homer.: Pioneers of Alaska. 1991. First edition. . Gilt decorated hard cover. . Fine copy small owner inscription on end paper. . 4to. Illustrated. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Pioneers of Alaska. hardcover
19764883Fairbanks Ak 1976. Very good. 36pp. Original pictorial wrappers stapled. Minor wear and dust-soiling. An informative program containing the schedule of events plus photographic portraits and other information from the Alaskan Grand Lodge of the Prince Hall Masons' convention in Fairbanks in 1976. The work includes group portraits from numerous branch lodges of the Prince Hall Masons throughout Alaska along with well wishes and congratulatory messages from past and present members other African American organizations in Alaska a history of Prince Hall Masonry in Alaska and more. African-American Masonic material from Alaska is decidedly rare from any era. unknown
195059935Montreal & Vancouver Canada: Canadian National Steamships January 1950. 4to. 8.25 x 9.4 which folds out into 8 pp unpaginated. colour illustrated double-page oblong folio 16.5 x 9.4 in. colour-illustrated self-printed softcovers showing S.S. Prince George cruising by Alaskan glaciers and totem pole cover art minor edgewear light rubbing to fold crease still VG copy w/ former travel agency marking of Dorothy Van Nuys Travel Service. First edition of this nicely printed post-World War II travel brochure for the Canadian National Steamship Co. filled with interior illustrations for the new SS Prince George a Grand Trunk steamship built and launched in 1947 for the Canadian National Steamship Co. Her sister ship was the S.S. Prince Rupert and both regularly ran the routes from Seattle to Victoria Vancouver Prince Rupert & Stewart BC and onto Skagway Alaska. The map includes details of the “Scenic Triangle Tour†of British Columbia on the Canadian National system which included stops in Jasper National Park Mount Robson Park and the Canadian Rockies. Worldcat locates copies of the later 1953 & 1954 issues but not this imprint. Canadian National Steamships, paperback
192063120Chicago: White Pass & Yukon Route Rathbun-Grant-Heller Co. ca. 1920. 8vo. 4 x 9 in. 16 pp. in 46 2 triple-column format on 9 x 12 in. sheets with numerous photo illustrations double-column route map w/ White & Pass & Yukon line logo. Self-printed softcovers beautiful cover art of Alaskan Native Americans in canoe watching a Yukon River steamer minor shelfwear some rubbing still VG copy. First edition thus of this very scarce travel brochure detailing the trip by steamship and railroad along the White Pass & Yukon Route from Skagway Alaska through Ketchikan Atlin Lake district and through the Skagway Valley to Dawson City on the Yukon River Yukon Territory. White Pass & Yukon Route, Rathbun-Grant-Heller Co., paperback
193659748Montreal & Vancouver Canada; Los Angeles CA: Canadian National Railways Steamships January 1936. 4to. 8.25 x 9.4 which folds out into large 18.5 x 33.5 in. travel poster on recto map on verso colour-illustrated self-printed softcovers showing Prince Robert or Prince George cruising by Alaskan glaciers and totem pole cover art very minor shelfwear slight rubbing from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment company owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers stamp of Canadian National Railways 607 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles CA w/in box on front. First edition of this rare and striking travel brochure for the Canadian National Steamship Co. filled with photographic views of sights in Wrangell Juneau Ketchikan Taku Glacier Skagway White Pass Lake Atlin and interspersed with striking Art Deco graphics in vivid orange purple green & black. The SS Prince Rupert & SS Prince George sister ships were constructed 1909-1910 at Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. both regularly running for decades the routes from Seattle to Victoria Vancouver Prince Rupert & Stewart BC and onto Skagway Alaska. The map includes details of the “Scenic Triangle Tour†of British Columbia on the Canadian National system which included stops in Jasper National Park Mount Robson Park and the Canadian Rockies. Worldcat locates 3 copies Bancroft Wisconsin Hist. Soc. Queens Univ. Ont. Canadian National Railways, Steamships, paperback
19589295University of Alaska Extension Service 1958. Saddle-stappled printed wrappers. Near Fine. Fred Machetanz cover art. 8vo. Pp. 26. Bound in printed wraps saddle-stapled with black & white illustration of a sled dog by Fred Machetanz on front cover. Slight age-toning to rear cover but overall quite presentable. Bulletin 200 of the Cooperative Extension Service in Agriculture and Home Economics. Scarce with only five recorded institutional copies per OCLC all in Alaska. Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve. (University of Alaska Extension Service) unknown
1901List2108Alaska 1901. Oblong folio 12 ½ x 9 inches. Twelve leaves with 89 photographs rebound in modern cloth. Binding in fine condition photographs generally excellent some leaves with clear tape repairs. A well preserved album of photographs showing mining operations in the Golovin Bay region about fifty to seventy-five miles northwest of Nome during the tail end of the Klondike Gold Rush period in 1900-1901. The album shows the operations of the Pioneer Company in Alaska in great detail including the travel by boat and the camps along Opher Creek as well as many photographs of the mining operation itself. According to a caption in one of the photographs $12000 worth of gold was taken out of the “Discovery Claim†on Ophir Creek. The album also includes several photographs of the indigenous population. The compiler of the book appears to have been a student at a mining college at some point as some of the photographs show a “Class of ‘04’†sign. The photographs are dated from 1897 to 1901. Interior scenes and a particularly broad portrayal of mining life and operations make this an uncommonly informative photographic document of Alaskan mining operations during this period. <br /> <br /> Lowny J.D. The Golovin Bay Region of Northwestern Alaska. In: The Engineering and Mining Journal Vol. 71 pp. 781-782. June 15 1901. Accessed online 6/23. unknown
193159665Long Beach CA: John A. Hazelet 543 Esther St. 1931. 4to. 8 pp unpaginated. printed in green & red leporello accordion-style format. With photo illusts. tables. Self-printed softcovers cover art of totem poles front cover minor shelfwear stamps of Bank of America travel dept. on cover still VG copy. First edition thus of this brochure detailing the Hazelet tours to Alaska including the Arctic Circle - Yukon River Tour Golden Belt Line Tour and the Copper River-Keystone Canyon tour for visitors to Alaska and also featuring a Lake Atlin-Whitehorse Tour in July and August. Travel included visits to the Columbia River Highway Mount Rainier National Park from Southern California on the Southern Pacific Railroad departure from Seattle via steamship and travel by rail in Aalska. John A. Hazelet, 543 Esther St., paperback
193049601930. Matted framed photograph. Very Good. Black & white platinum photo print in 4 x 6 inch light green matte behind glass 10 x 11.5 inch wood frame. The Princess Fleet were the coastal passenger liners of the Canadian Pacific Railway which also ran the ocean-going Empress Fleet. The Charlotte was commissioned by Captain J. W. Troup and built at the Fairfield shipyard near Glasgow in 1908 to be the finest flyer on the Pacific Coast when it entered service in the summer of 1909. The initial route was Victoria - Vancouver - Seattle. We estimated the date of our photo by examining crew and passenger attire. unknown
193361702Boston: W.A. Wilde Co. 1933. 8vo. 351 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous plates 1 large folding map. Blue ribbed cloth dark blue & gilt lettering w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine 1 very small closed tear NF/VG copy w/ 2 pp. ALS laid-in dated March 26 1934 tipped-in photo image signed by author on front pastedown from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition signed presentation copy 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. The letter laid into this presentation copy outlines her unhappiness with being posted back to Washington D.C. by the U.S. Government as well as her struggles in writing the memoir. Scarce in dustjacket. See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 159 footnote. W.A. Wilde Co., hardcover
192962096Boston: Chapple Publishing Co. Ltd. 1929. 8vo. 10 302 pp. Frontisp. plates map. Scarlet-coloured publisher’s cloth illustrated endpapers very slight shelfwear offset toning from removed bookmark at gutter margin w/ d.j. cover art by Willard Vaughn minor sunning to spine dustsoiling minor shelfwear still NF/VG copy inscribed by the author on ffep. First edition inscribed of this maritime adventure romance written by the San Francisco author in homage to Jack London set against the backdrop of competing fishing fleets in the Alaskan north. West 1898-1957 was a San Francisco journalist originally from Minneapolis who also wrote around the same time an informative “Bibliography of the Writings of Jack London†issued by Chapple Publishing the same year whose papers are held by the University of Oregon. This was his only work of fiction. Worldcat locates 8 copies U of AK Cal Hist. Soc. SJSU Yale DLC U of MN Ohio State Utah State. Chapple Publishing Co., Ltd., hardcover
193463926Seattle WA: The Alaska Line Alaska Steamship Co. Farwest Lithograph & Printing Co. 1934. One large oblong atlas folio pictorial map sized 29.5 x 22 in. beautiful original lithograph cover very minor dustsoiling and slight creasing to fore-edges a NF copy. First edition of this splendid pictorial map featuring pictograph cartoons reminiscent of John Held’s Jazz Age artwork as well as Ruth Taylor White and her sister Della Taylor Hoss. The Alaska Line which had benefited from a near monopoly of passenger and freight service to Alaska after the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 brags about their accommodations service easy access and tours to many scenic areas in and around “America’s last frontier.†Later printings have an altered colour scheme from this one featuring Alaska in gold and the Yukon and British Columbia Canada in pink. Camy 1904-1958 was a California artist and illustrator who specialized in commercial graphic advertising for Dole Pineapple Signal Gasoline and the Alaska Line. He produced very few pictographic maps. The Alaska Line, Alaska Steamship Co., Farwest Lithograph & Printing Co., unknown
192846131Chicago: Poole Bros. Inc. 1928. Oblong 16mo. 59 1 pp. Photo illusts. 1 map. Photo-illust. self-printed wrappers slight shelfwear NF copy stapled as issued. First edition thus of this travel brochure detailing the trip by steamship and railroad along the White Pass & Yukon Route from Skagway Alaska to Dawson City on the Yukon River Yukon Territory. Poole Bros., Inc., unknown
190652645New York: Benziger Brothers 1906. 8vo. 10 307 1 pp. Frontisp. photo 24 photo plates 1 large folding map. Green pictorial publisher’s cloth gilt illustration of totem poles gilt lettering & decoration on front cover spine very slight rubbing very light interior toning slight bumping to couple corners VG copy. Second edition 1st U.S. Edition of this Canadian Jesuit missionary’s efforts in Newfoundland and Alaska at the beginning of the 20th century against the backdrop of the Klondike and Yukon Gold Rush. He details his experiences living in mining camps of Nome and Kotzebue Sound for two years offers details of Alaskan Native Americans along with insightful short histories of Russian exploration and influence in the areas. Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes 168b. Benziger Brothers, hardcover
190747374New York: McClure Phillips & Co. 1907. Thick 8vo. xiv 2 330 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates illustrations. Green ribbed cloth embossed & gilt lettering & decoration on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear very minor rubbing still VG bright copy from the author’s library w/ McLain bookplate on front pastedown presented to Mrs. John Howard Todd in January 1925 by the author w/ handwritten note laid-in identifying Onesime Sovey who went to the gold rush in 1897 with George Smith Portland Druggist. First edition presentation author’s copy signed of this excellent work detailing the fact finding tour by the author with the Senate Committee on Territories which visited Alaska and the Yukon in 1903. McClure, Phillips & Co., hardcover