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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
190971174Boston 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
274pp. 21 cm. Paperback Very good condition
1899R33876Washinton, 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).
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
19571303566Cambridge, 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).
2001Q-1566610559Alaska Geographic Society 2001-05-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alaska Geographic Society paperback
1915GC10-241Washington, 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
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
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.
fort volume in-8, 936 pp., carte, broché, couvertu Bel exemplaire. [CA27/7]
43597Bergisch Gladnbach, Bastei Lübbe Verlag, ohne Angaben. 1299 Seiten , 19 cm, kartoniert
198923959ABDüsseldorf, 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.
2000VOY266M2000 / 309 pages. Broché. Editions Glénat.
