ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE
by McLain, John Scudder
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: McClure, Phillips and Company, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. New York: McClure, Phillips and Company, 1905. First edition. 8 x 5 3/4 inches: pp. xiv, [2], 330, [2]. Green cloth with spine and cover titles in gold gilt, embossed ribbed pattern encircles cover titles. Foldout map of Alaska at rear. Index. Frontis photo of miners, 92 photo illustrations.
Cover has a light stain on front, deep scratch on back, and some rubbing to spine, which affects title. Interior very good, clean in sound binding. The author traveled with a government committee through Alaska. Chapters include: The "Inside Passage"; Phases of Life on Beiring Sea; Nome and the Gold Fields of the Seward Peninsula; The Seal Islands; Alaskan Fisheries; Indians of Alaska, etc. Excellent period photos.
Cover has a light stain on front, deep scratch on back, and some rubbing to spine, which affects title. Interior very good, clean in sound binding. The author traveled with a government committee through Alaska. Chapters include: The "Inside Passage"; Phases of Life on Beiring Sea; Nome and the Gold Fields of the Seward Peninsula; The Seal Islands; Alaskan Fisheries; Indians of Alaska, etc. Excellent period photos.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 513
- Title
- ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE
- Author
- McLain, John Scudder
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- McClure, Phillips and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Alaska, fisheries, gold mining
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
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- Rubbing
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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