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195056567Seattle WA: Captain Olaf H. Hansen ca. 1950. 4to. 11 leaves typescript manuscript w/ ink manuscript annotations on verso of last leaf a couple corrections. Light gray limp cover split-pin binder manuscript cover title rounded corners minor shelfwear rubbing still VG exemplar from the library of Captain Olaf Hansen 1877-1959 Danish-American sea captain from Seattle WA w/ bookplate on verso of front cover. A remarkable typescript manuscript detailing Captain Hansen’s experiences with Henry Carlton Strong 1869-1954 who not only was Ketchikan’s postmaster but also owned the Clark & Martin fish-saltery located at the mouth of Ketchikan creek. Hansen was recruited as an 18 year old to work on the steamer Alert a whiskey runner for smuggling from Port Simpson to Juneau when Alaska was still a dry Territory in order to secure the mail delivery contract. The Captain “was a part Negro and his name was Watson and was the only one available who had a second class pilot license for the Ketchikan District. . . as we had the mail contract on account of her speed.†He goes on later after picking up mail sacks that “our first stop was at Grindall where Thomlinson and Syare were located. They had a store. . . on the wall . . . I saw the lithographed map which was used in New York to make the suckers to buy stock in their mining company and it showed a fine big harbor with seven men of wars anchored in it and lots of room to spare.†Hansen jumps ship and heads back to Seattle and then down the West Coast while Strong would continue to establish and expand the Northland Steamship Company. See: Louise Brick Harrington Henry C. Strong Pioneers of Southeast Alaska Stories in the News August 10 2006. Captain Olaf H. Hansen, unknown
1898300586Chicago: 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
1902217555Seattle 1902. First. hardcover. good. Many photo illustrations by E. A. Hegg. 126pp. Oblong 4to original tan cloth spine rebacked in new black cloth covers soiled front flyleaf and some margins of plates lightly soiled upper right corners of plates creased inner hinge strengthened. Seattle 1902. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Entire text is published photo illustrations of Alaska and the Yukon Territory. There is one folding panorama of Dawson Yukon Territory. The images are bright.<br/> <br/> unknown
178522405London 1785. Copper engraved portrait of a polar bear on ice from the folio atlas accompanying the last voyage of Captain Cook. Very good condition extra wide margins. 9 3/4 x 8" image on paper approx 16 x 21.5 unknown
ria9798307960158_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A Marko Delacroix 10th Year Anniversary Special Edition Omnibus Prey and Blood Bound books 1&2. paperback
a74833Washington 1980 96th Congress. Feasibility study for hydroelectric power in Alaska. Senate Documents Volume 12 13. 3 volumes bound in two. Hardcover. 4to. 838pp. 876pp. 275pp. matching printed buckram. Depository Library stamp on front free blanks. VG one corner gently bumped. . hardcover
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
39164An autograph note on his own stationery with his arms as the letterhead signed in full by William Henry Seward 1801-1872 Governor of New York United States Senator and Secretary of State under Lincoln and afterwards 1861-1869. He is now of course best remember for arranging the purchase of Alaska 1867 from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million which seemed like a great deal until Sarah Palin showed up. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. With conjugate leaf. In excellent condition. <br/><br/> unknown
1996mon0004127505St Herman Pr 1/1/1996 12:00:01 AM. paperback. Good. 0.4000 8.2000 5.2000. St Herman Pr paperback
192952116Los Angeles: Press of Schwabacher-Frey Company 1929. 1929. First edition. 11 1/4" x 8 1/2" in simulated leather and embossed pictorial boards with color vignette of Big Bear Valley stamped on front cover and with gilt lettering and woodcraft borders. Sewn with gold silk braid at spine. Decorative endpapers with slot on front pastedown for ownership certificate not present but tipped-in design for Cambria Pines cabin design with floor plans. Color illustrated vignette title. Color text illustrations. Photo illustrations. Decorative borders. Pictorial map by Graysons of Los Angeles. Color illustrated calendar dial with borders on final leaf preserving the original glassine flyleaves. A beautifully produced brochure detailing the amenities for both members and investors in the Peter Pan Woodland Club. Harry Kiener formed the Big Bear Land & Water Company to develop mountain properties in the east valley area of Big Bear City in 1925. In 1927 he contracted with Los Angles truck-body builder Guy Maltby to build a wooden power boat to be used on Big Bear Lake. While delivering the boat Maltby became fascinated with the project and formed the Bear Valley Milling and Lumber Company to build the Peter Pan Lodge along with over 600 surrounding homes in Big Bear City. This lodge was massive with five stories and included a golf course landscaping tennis courts swimming pool movie theater and for nearly two decades was used for parties dances and even Hollywood films. Sadly it burned to the ground on June 18 1948 and even though the smaller Peter Pan Lodge building was moved to the site it never recaptured the spirit and elegance of the original resort. Light soiling to bottom corners of pages along with faint tears to upper fore-edge of free front end paper and with slight creasing and with faint pencil annotations on front pastedown. Very good. Press of Schwabacher-Frey Company, 1929. hardcover
192952115Seattle: North Pacific Gravure Co. 1929. 1929. First edition. 11 1/4" x 8 1/4" in pictorial wrappers printed in brown ink. Mt. McKinley ink on front wrapper and map of Alaska showing Golden Belt Line and Copper River-Keystone Canyon Line on rear wrapper. 32pp. Foreword. Illustrations. Photo illustrations and photo plates for the Alaska Line steamships. Photographs include steamships scenic landscapes Native American crafts interior and exterior views of the S.S. Yukon S.S. Alaska and the S.S. Aleutian cabin rooms dining saloon and shipboard activities as well as birds-eye views over Ketchikan Wrangell Juneau Cordova ay Kennecott etc. Tiny crease to top edge of corner and with minimal shelf wear. Very good plus. North Pacific Gravure Co., 1929. unknown
193663872New York NY: Robert Speller Publishing Corp. 1936. 8vo. 233 1 pp. Blue-green pictorial cloth illustrated in silver on front cover lettering on spine slight sunning to fore-edges minor shelfwear ownership markings on endpapers w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art by Irving Politzer slight edgewear dustsoiling very slight chipping head of spine still a VG/VG copy w/ Ye College Book Shoppe lending library markings & pricing on ffep. managed at the time by Burton Marsh and Howell Wood. First edition stated of McCracken’s very scarce early novel set against the backdrop of Alaskan romance fortune hunting divorce and adventure apparently inspired by the popularity of frozen north fiction from James Oliver Curwood and intended to gain an audience in Hollywood. McCracken 1894-1983 was the longtime associate editor of Field & Stream noted Arctic explorer during the 1920’s hunting for remnants of the prehistoric land bridge between Siberia and Alaska successful film maker winning the 1935 Exhibitor Prize for his 1935 “The Land of Evangeline†and later the first director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody WY. Robert Speller Publishing Corp., hardcover
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
1867319700Washington D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1867. First edition. Text in two columns. 48pp. Without the folding map not issued in all copies. Stitched. First edition. Text in two columns. 48pp. Without the folding map not issued in all copies. Sumner's important speech in support of the ratification oof the treaty with Russia which ceded what would become Alaska to the U.S. Sometimes found with a large folding map by Lindenkpohl though it was not issued with the speech according to Lada-Mocarski. Howes S1134; Lada-Mocarski 159; Tourville 4391; Wickersham 4128 Printed at the Congressional Globe Office unknown
171959230Washington 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
190141698Nome: The Nome News 1901. 1901. ALASKA CRIME. First edition. 15" x 22" newsprint 4 pp. printed in six columns. The newspaper is printed semi-weekly and this issue is dated August 17 1901. This newspaper is quite content-rich compared to most small papers of the era with considerable space devoted to original local news content. Problems of violence and frontier justice dominate this issue. A large headline on the front page blares "A Murderous Knife Wielded" and describes a fight over a woman in which one man's head was nearly severed. Another lengthy story reports that a gang of 65 masked men attacked a camp on Glacier Creek at three o'clock in the morning--leading to thirteen arrests and one man hospitalized with a gunshot would--all the result of a disputed mining claim the history of the dispute is recounted in the article. A separate editorial reacts to these events with a call for martial law at the camp concluding "A man may kill another in the heat of passion for principle and be justified but the man who deliberately plans to jeopardize life for gold over which there is a clouded title is a murder to all intents and purposes and deserves the fate of a murderer." Another article reports that Judge James Wickersham spent a day in Nome on his way to Unalaska where he will preside over two murder trials and that he is concerned about finding enough competent jurors. And yet another reports that 54 members of the Nome Bar Association have sent a signed petition to President McKinley requesting that he remove District Judge Arthur H. Noyes on the grounds that he "is vacillating and dilatory weak and partial negligent careless and absolutely incompetent" and that "the interposition of a fearless honest and competent judge is urgently required at Nome to prevent further riot and bloodshed to preserve law and order and to protect life liberty and property." The story of yet another murder also gold-related appears on the paper's last page where we also find the usual classified and display advertising. Several creases from folding and a small area of loss at the center shaped like a small triangle that affects all pages and measures 1/2" x 1/2" x 1." Good clean copy. The Nome News, 1901. unknown
526001940. 3 original colour maps each c. 110 x 110 cm 40 x 45 inches folding to 20 x 12.5 cm. Natural fold creases generally very fresh and clean. Shows anchorage Big delta Blying Sound Circle fairbanks Gulkana Healy Kantishna River Kenai Livengood Mount Hayes Mount McKinley Seldovia Seward Talkeetna Talketna Mountains Tanan Tyonek Valdez etc. 1940 unknown
1899249256Washington D.C. 1899. 4 pp. 4to. Old folds else fine. 4 pp. 4to. The letter traces the diplomatic claims of Great Britain in Alaska and goes into detail about the 2 contested parts the "Portland Channel" and the parallel 50 degrees to Mt. St. Elias. <br /> He is grandfather of John Foster and Allen Dulles. He was also TR's head commissioner in the negotiations on Alaska-Canadian boundaries in 1903. unknown
73937Sitka Alaska Territory: Alaskan Publishing Company 600. First edition. Newspaper dated January 30 1886. Folio. 4 pp. Typical folds with some areas of separation that have been repaired with Scotch tape including central horizontal fold of front page. Remarkably nice condition. No copies at auction according to RBH.Very early Alaska Territorial newspaper with news regarding the territory and advertisements for local businesses printed just 19 years after the Territory was purchased from Russia. The Alaskan a Sitka newspaper published from 1885-1907 was an important voice for Alaska. The newspaper was managed by a Miss Cassia Patton. She was a fierce proponent of sending Native American children to "white schools." Patton first came to Sitka in 1889. She taught school then owned the Alaskan newspaper . She was supported in all this by her brother-in-law Governor Brady. Alaskan Publishing Company unknown
56548Pullman & Seattle WA: Frank A. Golder 1912. Atlas folio. Five leaves sized from 12 x 22 in. up to 22.75 x 28 in. 1st. - Pencil manuscript on hand-ruled graph chart w/ boxes all filled in some additions on thick yellow paper stock two pieces taped together on verso; 2nd - Original typescript w/ some corrections made on typing paper two pieces taped on verso minor tear creasing; 3rd -- Blueprint from typescript; 4 & 5 both typescript copies on thin typing paper couple minor closed tears still VG set. Original manuscript and typescript tables prepared by Golder 1877-1929 for early lectures on Russian economic and diplomatic history and “A Survey of Alaska 1743-1799†1913. Published in the Washington Historical Quarterly these charts trace the growth and economic impact of the Russian fur trade from the 18th Century into the 19th Century. At the time Golder was unable to find one single source of the information so he created his own charts and they chronicle the growth and impact of the fur trade in Alaska breaking down not only all the vessels navigators and owners but also the types of cargo including beaver fox sea otter otter tails sea bears sea lions whale mustaches walrus tusks blue arctic fox and their values. The two additional typescript tables separate out the furs from the Chelichof and Golikofs Co. i.e. Shelikhov-Golikov Co. from 1786-1797 notorious for their massacres of indigenous Alutiiqs in 1784 on Kodiak Island known as the Awa’uq Massacre allowing the Russian Co. control over the island. Directly afterwards Golder spent the next decade actively working in Russian Archives during the Russian Revolution and eventually produced his Guide to Materials for American History in Russian Archives and built the massive Slavic language collection at the Hoover War History Collection. Frank A. Golder, unknown
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
19334914Seattle & Aboard S.S. Aleutian 1933. About very good. 31pp. total. A few staples and other metal fastenings. Light wear and toning. An interesting group of promotional and shipboard material produced for an Alaska cruise undertaken by members of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce in June 1933. Material present here includes two issues of the shipboard newspaper "Midnight Sun" daily itineraries authored by the captain of the S.S. Aleutian a series of three pre-cruise bulletins distributed by the "excursion committee" of the Seattle Chamber an extensive fact sheet about Alaska from the same and a promotional pamphlet for the 1933 Season of the Alaska Steamship Company under whose auspices the tour was occurring. The itineraries are quite detailed and cover the the northbound portion of the journey from Seattle to Seward. The newspapers are also very interesting and provide a complete passenger manifest as well as a mix of national news President Roosevelt signing the National Industrial Recovery Act e.g. and local interest baseball scores from the Pacific Coast League. Together these typescript documents provide a good deal of information concerning the cruise and form a cogent narrative of this "business-friendship tour" and of Alaska tourism during the Depression. unknown
1897Cat358New 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
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
191656549Washington D.C. & Juneau A.T.: Superintendent of Documents U.S. Surveyor General’s Office 1916. Oblong Atlas Folio. 24 x 19 in. 14 colour maps 1 large folding 17.25 x 41.5 in. Printed softcovers stapled and paper reinforcement at gutter margin some minor toning & soiling to fore-edges edgewear to spine minor scuffing and a couple removed label ghosting still VG- bright copy. First edition of this remarkably scarce plat map atlas for the Matanuska coal fields and township sites surveyed by Walker & McDaniel during their surveys following those on the Kenai Peninsula. By 1912 with the act establishing Alaska as a U.S. Territory and in 1914 the authorization to construct an Alaska Railroad there became an increased need and demand for coal. The Matanuska mines located about 45 miles northeast of Anchorage first began production in 1916 and would stay in continuous production through both World War I and World War II and well into the 20th Century re-opening again in the 21st Century. Not only do these maps show available government lease sites for coal mines but also available Township sites for homesteaders as required by the original Homestead Acts of 1866 and the 1916 Act for Alaska requiring surveys and resurveys to accurately determine boundaries of unsold railroad lands and identify their boundaries. Worldcat locates 2 copies Anchorage Museum & Univ. of Calgary; See: Catalogue of the Public Documents of the Sixty-Fourth Congress Index Vol. 13 1922 p. 74; C. Albert White A History of the Rectangular Survey System 1983 p. 189. Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Surveyor General’s Office, paperback
