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The Adventure of Wrangel Island, Alaska (1925 Macmillan 1st Edition) HISTORY OF ALASKA. EXLIB. Good Condition/ No DJ included. Fold-out map affixed to binding at the back of the book has never been opened. The story of the (unsuccessful) attempted colonization of Wrangel Island Alaska. 413 pages plus appendix, Index. Titling is still bright. A clean, solid copy. Scarce.

By Lawrence A. Frost. The Custer Album. BIOGRAPHY. Used - Very Good: Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. USED. GOOD CONDITION/ GOOD CONDITION DJ. "A pictorial biography of George Custer - man or legend . . . hero or fool, George Armstrong Custer from boyhood to his last battlefield are all here in pictures." First edition. 192 pages, indexed. 8 3/8 X 10 ¾

Devol, George H. Forty Years A Gambler On The Mississippi. 1926 Henry Holt First Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 288 Pages. Red boards with playing card emblem at center front. Spine states "Of The Mississippi" in error. Summary: In his "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi" Devol recounts dozens of anecdotes of how he plied his Three-Card Monte and sharp dealing skills to cheat the cheaters and/or suckers on steamboats and in river towns over more than four decades in the mid-nineteenth century American South" Please see our stock photos.

William R. Gillis. Goldrush Days with Mark Twain (H. Glintenkamp woodcuts). Copyright 1930. Albert & Charles Boni, NY. With an into by Cyril Clemens. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS 6 woodcut illustrations included, Twain frontis (Three old friends), and 5 other historic and realistic woodcut illustrations. MEMOIRS. HISTORY OF NEVADA GOLDRUSH. Summary: Mr. Gillis was a friend of American author/humorist Mark Twain and was with him at Virginia, Nevada in the Goldrush days. In 1859 placer miners in the Great Basin discovered the largest gold and silver strike that had happened in the United States up until that time. RARE H. Glintenkamp WOODCUTS. Used. Good- Condition. 264 pages. Used. Good condition. First few pages are loose. Frontis is still affixed to binding. Green cloth boards gold titling. No titles left on spine. Spine is sunned.