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1984Q-088240203xAlaska Northwest Books 1984-09-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alaska Northwest Books paperback
178734758Paris: M. Bonne 1787. Map. Good. Approx. 16" x 11". Hand colored map of the southern Alaska region showing Capt. Cook's discoveries in the Prince William Sound and Cook's Inlet. Light crease in the center fold. Good. M. Bonne unknown
189729536New York 1897. Broadsheet 9 1/2" x 12". With a small oval half-tone portrait. On recto at the bottom printed in red: 'Norton Hall Granville N.Y. Thursday Eve. Dec. 30 1897.' Near Fine.<br /> <br /> A rare announcement of a public entertainment-- "Not a Lecture. But a Budget of Jewels Sparkling Pathetic Humorous and Original"-- by this popular Western hero who on his first outing as a reporter in 1875 promoted the Black Hills Gold Rush. John W. Crawford 1847-1917 was a "poet-scout" who memorialized Custer and Wild Bill Hickok in verse. He "was one of the original discoverers of gold on French Creek in the Black Hills in 1876." After a stint with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show which he left when he accidentally shot himself in the groin blaming it on Buffalo Bill's drinking he moved to New Mexico to scout for the Army against the Apache. He "did more than any other man in the Territory in bringing before the public the immense mineral wealth of New Mexico."<br /> This broadsheet not only publicizes Captain Jack's Entertainment but also promotes "The Capt. Jack Crawford Alaska Prospecting and Mining Co." Testimonials to Crawford are printed here along with an invitation for the recipient to receive a Company prospectus.<br /> OCLC 778631567 3- Yale SMU U AK as of February 2023. unknown
190012740Salem MA: Newcomb and Gauss Printers 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 251 pp with frontispiece and many sketches by the author which are rather amateurish but charming. Mild marginal dampstain to the first few pages boards a bit scuffed rubbed at corners and spine ends. The author joined the Lynn Mining Company and departed from Massachusetts in November 1897 traveling via the Schooner "Abbie M. Deering" to Bahia Brazil and on to San Francisco. From there the party secured passage to Seattle and then St. Michael eventually traveling up the Yukon and Koyukuk Rivers to the Arctic Circle. Includes detailed and colorful description of the outfitting process and the vicissitudes of travel and prospecting. Wickersham 80; Tourville 4919; Graff 4712; Howes W556; Smith 11106 Arctic Bibliography 19606. Newcomb and Gauss, Printers hardcover
1917List1730Chicago: Poole Brothers 1917. Folding map measuring 38 ½ x 26 ¾ inches. Tape repairs to verso some tears at folds and edges still bring and attractive good to very good overall with excellent restoration potential. A map of the canneries in Alaska British Columbia and Washington operated by the Deming and Gould Company who were influential in the growth of the Alaskan salmon trade. The map’s date of printing 1917 suggests that perhaps it was related to the war effort as salmon demand increased during this period. The Demings based in Chicago were influential in the growth of the salmon trade in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest founding Pacific American Fisheries Inc. in 1899 and continuing in various iterations until their sale of the firm in 1934 due to president E.B. Deming’s ailing health. The map shows seventeen different canneries several on the Alaska peninsula and the one in Bellingham. We find no record of this imprint only a later and small version held at the University of Washington. Poole Brothers unknown
0265709482.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1332908128.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. 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
6Z-R3DC-0MLSHardcover. Good. INSCRIBED by the photographer ""for Mr. Rockefeller - thank you for supporting ACF"" - presumably David Rockefeller Jr. who was once Vice Chair of the Alaska Conservation Foundation. Jacket has moderate wear and small tears book has light wear. hardcover
1986Q-0882401785Alaska Geographic Society 1986-07-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Alaska Geographic Society paperback
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
1981CCB4174Alaska Northwest Books 1981-06-28. paperback. Acceptable. 14x10x0. Cover is well worn but intact. Binding is loose and starting to come unglued. Still a good copy. Pages are clean and unmarked. Alaska Northwest Books paperback
a104032Palmer Alaska. 2008 first edition. Matanuska Susitna Borough. 133 color arial maps. Oblong large folio - 11 x 18 inches. Plastic spiral binding. VG maps are in Fine condition. from a non-circulating depository library so light library markings. . unknown
190455454London: Rowland Ward Ltd. 1904. Tall 8vo. xvi 292 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. 44 photos and plates 1 large folding map in rear pocket. Green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover & spine simulated Zebra skin endpapers minor bumping to corners edgewear slight spotting on the spine still VG copy. First edition of this excellent early account of hunting on the Kenai Peninsula including descriptions of Alaskan Native Americans salmon cannery operations and more. Radclyffe had acquired a permit from the Bureau of Biological Survey with the USDA in order to collect big game specimens for the British Museum and the account was dedicated to a longtime fellow hunter and friend Theodore Roosevelt. The author details his experiences with hunting Alaskan Brown Bears Grizzly Bears Moose Dall Sheep and running afoul of the zealous US Deputy Marshal Sexton a stickler for the new game regulations instituted on the Kenai in 1903 not to mention destroying the distilling operation of Alaskan hunter & miner Andrew Berg. He managed to survive a charging bear sow after being abandoned by his guide as well as the Alaskan courtroom but his companions were not so lucky as the judge ruled that the permit did not extend to the hunting party. Radclyffe returned later to hunt Alaska on the Kenai in August 1910 employing Andrew Berg as his head guide. See: Catherine Cassidy Alaska’s No. 1 Guide: The History and Journals of Andrew Berg 1869-1939 pp. 28-29 38. Rowland Ward Ltd., hardcover
1932142456Chicago: U. S. Department of the Interior 1932. 10pp. Square octavo. Colourfully illustrated paper wrappers with a map of the Alaska Railroad on the verso of the back wrapper. Heavily illustrated with black and white photos and drawings within the text. Fold line down the middle where it was folded to act as a pamphlet. Very mild edgewear to the wrappers otherwise a very good copy of this scarce piece of ephemera. A wonderfully produced little pamphlet promoting the Alaska Railroad and the central portion of Alaska as having the "choicest big game fields" in America. U. S. Department of the Interior unknown
196948653Mansfield Centre CT: Martino Fine Books c. 1969 1998. Folio. vii 1 567 1 pp. Double-page illustrated title numerous plates & facsimiles of title pages. Red cloth black & gilt spine label NF copy. First facsimile edition 1 of 200 copies reprinting the 1969 Yale University Press original. Martino Fine Books, hardcover
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
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
18942889Sitka Ak: August 1 1894. Very good plus. 5pp. Original mailing folds. A historically-illuminating eyewitness account of the burning of Baranof Castle the famous fort built in the New Archangel Sitka by the first governor of Russian America Alexander Baranov. During Russian rule the castle was the administrative center of Russian America. Baranof Castle was the site for both the formal ceremony of the sale of Alaska to the United States and the hoisting of the first American flag in Alaska. The building was continually reconstructed throughout its tenure and fully renovated in 1893. On the night of March 17 1894 the castle caught fire and burned to the ground apparently due to the ignition of oily rags stored there. At the time of the fire the building was used as the office and residence of the U.S. Court Commissioner Robert C. Rogers. Much later in 1962 the site where the castle once stood was declared a National Historic Landmark.<br /> <br /> The author of the present letter Julia E. Haley was the only daughter of Nicholas Haley a Sitka pioneer notable miner and important early landowner with several claims close to Sitka Bay. Born raised and ultimately buried in Sitka Julia Haley owned and operated the well-known curiosity shop the "Old Indian Trading Post" on Lincoln Street in Sitka in the first two decades of the 20th century. Her store offered a variety of local products and artifacts some of which purportedly came from the ashes of Baranof Castle though Haley's account of the fire seems to refute any possibility of relics being found in the ashes. Here Haley writes to a friend identified only as "Miss Young" a schoolteacher in San Francisco. In her letter Haley provides a detailed account of the Baranof Castle fire notes the troubles people have in getting to Sitka due to "much trouble on the railroads" and briefly describes a ball given by local ladies in honor of the Bering Sea Fleet "That is the U.S. Navy ships in harbour - Yorktown Mohican Albatross Ranger Hassler Corwin Adams Bear Rush Pinta and H.M. Ship Pheasant & Areal".<br /> <br /> Haley's description of the fire reads as follows: "I suppose you have heard about the Baranof Castle. It was burnt to the ground. Not even could we have a chip in remembrance. Of it nothing could be saved. It was impossible. Judge Rogers was in the building at the time & it took all they could do to get him out. He was at the windows for 8 hours crying for help. But no one heard him. Every one was asleep. He lost everything. Nothing saved only a long coat he had on. And his poor little dog was in the attic & no one could get near him. It was a beautiful building after it as nearly repaired. So you may tell your friends that the Baranof Castle at Sitka is no more. The ground it stood on is all there. The building after being repaired was going to be occupied by the officials & we miss the view so much. It was a very pretty fire. I wished you could have seen it. The flag pole was the very last to burn. They took several views of it which looks so much like it. Every one felth sic so sorry. All the ladies watched it from one in the morning until four."<br /> <br /> A unique account of one woman's experiences in far-flung Alaska in the last decade of the 19th century with a particularly noteworthy eyewitness account of the last moments of Baranof Castle. August 1 unknown
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
191110365San Francisco California 1911. 5.5 x 4" stapled booklet 36 pp color and black and white illustrations from drawings. A promotional cookbook of recipes making use of canned salmon issued by the Alaska Packers Association which was at the time the largest salmon packing company in Alaska operating canneries across the state and headquartered in San Francisco. The booklet prints recipes for 30 dishes and several sauces including "Salmon Pie" "Salmon Croquettes" and "Army and Navy Salmon Scouse" all of which call specifically for Argo Red Salmon. The cookbook additionally makes use of vibrant graphics to promote the products for instance the title page bears a color illustration of a child taking a wild ride on a salmon while waving a can above its head and the recipes are illustrated with color drawings of several of the dishes. Laid into the booklet is a color printed label for a salmon can in pristine condition. Booklet in excellent condition with a hint of toning to pages and a hint of foxing and spotting to covers. 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
195539997Juneau AK: Department of Territorial Police 1955. 4to. 4 54 leaves. Numerous maps diagrams photos. Quarter-blk tape over printed textured softcovers chppng & wear to spine still a VG copy. First edition scarce of the first Annual Report of the status organization and efforts of the Alaska Territorial Police providing invaluable statistics and data of the Territory at the time. Department of Territorial Police, paperback
0265801877.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0266876099.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
