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The Diary of a Ninety-Eighter
by Austin, Basil; Cumming, John (Introduction)
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- 1968
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$35.00
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Mount Pleasant, MI: John Cumming, 1968. Hardcover. Near fine. ix, 190 pp, with 3 maps and 2 illustration. Previous owner's name in red ink on front flyleaf, else a fine copy in publisher's dark gray cloth. No dust jacket. First-person account of three years mining in during the Klondike Gold Rush. Item Price
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Report of the Cruise of the Revenue Marine Steamer Corwin in the Arctic Ocean in the Year 1884
by Healy, Capt. M.A., et al.
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- First Edition
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- 1889
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$175.00
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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the First Session of the Fiftieth Congress, 1887-'88, Volume 19. 4to. 128 pp, with many b/w illustrations from photographs and two color plates of birds (auks). Bound in full leather with red and black spine labels. Boards are scuffed and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Kodiak DIary
by Rowton, Helen
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- 1993
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- Softcover
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$40.00
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Colorado Springs, 1993. Softcover. Very good. 78 pp. Signed by author on front blank. Light handling wear; very good. Account of life as a missionary in Kodiak, Alaska in 1968. The author and her husband were associated with the Kodiak Baptist Mission, which celebrated its centennial in 1993. Item Price
$40.00
Account of Pedestrian Journeys in the Russian Possessions in America
by Zagoskin, L.A.
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$350.00
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Hardcover. Very good. Bound typescript with no publication information given, but identified in OCLC as "a translation made by Antionette Hotovitzky in 1935 of the original Russian ed., St. Petersburg, 1847, omitting the Indian vocabularies in the originals." [vii] 422 pp, with text on rectos only, bound in green cloth. Numerous ink stamps of the Alaska Indian Service… Read more about this item Item Price
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To the Top of the Continent Discovery, Exploration And Adventure In Sub-Arctic Alaska. The First Ascent Of Mt. McKinley, 1903-1906
by Cook, Frederick A.
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- First Edition
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- 1908
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$250.00
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New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 321 pp with illustrations from photographs, in original green cloth with mountain vignette in white on front board, top edge gilt. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, some tiny white paint specks on spine, foxing to fore edge of text block and front matter. Binding tight, text… Read more about this item Item Price
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1920s Alaska Photo Album with Nice Images of Juneau and Kodiak
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$275.00
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Softcover. Very good. 7" x 11" strong-tied photograph album containing 35 snapshots (3.5" x 5") corner-mounted one per page, rectos only. A small album without captions, but with good documentary content. The first two images are a nice Juneau street scene and a shot of the Alaska Air Transport Terminal in the Juneau harbor. These are followed by… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Cheechako in Alaska and Yukon
by Cameron, Charlotte
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- First Edition
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- 1920
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$90.00
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 291 pp + [1] ("Afterthoughts") and publisher's ads, with illustrations from photographs and a large folding map of the White Pass & Yukon Route, with inset Map of Atlin Lake District laid in at the back. Original red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Spinelightly sunned, a bit… Read more about this item Item Price
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Harriman Alaska Series Volumes VIII and IX: Insects
by Ashmead, William H.; Banks, Nathan, Caudell, A.N., et al.
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- 1910
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Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1910. Hardcover. Very good. Volume VIII: pp ix, 238, indexed, with color frontispiece and 16 other plates, as well as figures and line drawings in the text; Volume IX: pp ix, 284, indexed, with photogravure frontispiece and three plates. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Volume XIII has a small area of dampstaining on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wealth and Resources of Alaska, Census Bulletin No. 39, March 16, 1891
by Petroff, Ivan
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- First Edition
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- 1891
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$100.00
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Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 15 pp, 7.75 x 10 inches; stapled self-wrappers. Old creases from folding, light handling wear; very good. Issued in advance of the full 1890 census report on the Alaska territory "in view of the extraordinary interest now being manifested in everything that relates to this… Read more about this item Item Price
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Alaska, Statistics of Population, Census Bulletin No. 30, February 11, 1891
by [Porter, Robert F.]
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- First Edition
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- 1891
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- Softcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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Washington, D.C.: Department of the Interior, 1891. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 9pp, 7.75 x 10 inches; stapled self-wrappers. Old creases from folding, light handling wear; very good. Issued in advance of the full 1890 census report on the Alaska territory, this bulletin provides demographic information on Alaska's population, which is divided into 7 geographic districts. The… Read more about this item Item Price
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Histoire de la Russie d'Amerique et de l'Alaska
by Poniatowski, Michel; de Saint-Pierre, Michel (Preface)
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- 1958
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$25.00
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Paris: Horizons de France, 1958. Hardcover. Very Good-. xx, 363 pp + illustrations from photographs, map. Moderate soiling and general wear to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Text in French. Item Price
$25.00
Mush, You Malemutes! [SIGNED]
by Hubbard, Bernard R., S.J.
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- 1943
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$30.00
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New York: The America Press, 1943. Hardcover. Good +. vi, 97 pp, extensively illustrated with b/w photographs from Alaska and the Yukon. Boards edgeworn, bump to lower corner near spine; light staining to a few pages; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Signed with short inscription by author on frontispiece."These 'stories,' which were first published by the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The History of Kamtschatka, and the Kurilski Islands
by Krasheninnikov, Stepan Petrovich; Grieve, James (Translator)
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- First Edition
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- 1764
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$3,500.00
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Glocester: R. Raikes for T. Jefferys, 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Quarto, pp. [8], 280, [8], with 7 engraved maps and plates (4 folding). Contemporary calf boards with new, complementary calf spine in six compartments. Some edgewear to boards; minor foxing to endpapers; text and plates exceptionally clean and bright. Bookplate of Sir Joseph Copley on front… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,500.00
Exploration of Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 and Adjacent Areas, Northern Alaska, 1944-53 Part 1, History of the Exploration
by Reed, John C.
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- 1958
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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$25.00
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Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1958. Softcover. Very good. xi, 192 pp, including glossary, selected bibliography, index. Previous owner's name on title page, light general handling wear; contents clean. Geological Survey Professional Paper 301. The first of five professional papers Reed including summaries of 10 years of explorations in Alaska with details such as geophysics, drilling,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Russian Orthodoxy in Alaska, A History, Inventory, and Analysis of the Church Archives in Alaska, with an Annotated Bibliography
by Smith, Barbara S.
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- First Edition
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- 1980
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$60.00
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Alaska Historical Commission, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Oversized paperback. x, 169 pp, with index, illustrations, maps. Mild cover wear. Clean, tightly bound, unmarked. Provides an overview of Russian Orthodox archives in the United States and detailed description of the archives of the Alaskan Diocese in Kodiak. An annotated bibliograpy covers books, pamphlets, and periodicals on orthodoxy… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letters from Alaska and the Pacific Coast
by [PACIFIC NORTHWEST] Briggs, Horace
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- First Edition
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- 1889
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- Softcover
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$125.00
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Buffalo, NY: E.H. Hutchinson, 1889. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 87 pp, in original printed wrappers. Mild soiling. The author was an attorney and Principal of the Buffalo Classical School. He traveled to Oregon, Washington, Alaska (primarily Sitka), and British Columbia in 1888, reporting back in a series of articles for his local newspaper, the Commercial Advertiser. This… Read more about this item Item Price
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Poems of Klondyke's Early Days and Alaska's Long White Trail [SIGNED]
by Crewe, Fred
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- First Edition
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- 1921
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Milwaukee, WI: North American Press, 1921. First Edition. Soft cover. Good. Unpaginated (c 200 pp), 6 x 9 inches, oblong, bound in flexible leather, illustrated with many b/w photographs from the Klondike Gold Rush (including scenes along the trail and views of Fairbanks and Dawson), one color illustration. Signed "Sincerely Yours, Fred Crewe," on the dedication page, which… Read more about this item Item Price
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Capt. J.D. Winchester's Experience on a Voyage From Lynn, Massachusetts to San Francisco, Cal. and to the Alaskan Gold Fields
by [ALASKA] Winchester, J. [James] D.
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- First Edition
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- 1900
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- Hardcover
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$225.00
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Salem, 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… Read more about this item Item Price
$225.00